Boxer Rebellion

By MasonHughes

  • Empress Dowager Cixi sends a letter of support to the Boxers.

  • Boxers storm through countryside, burning churches, and killing Christians

  • Boxers cut railroad line at Tianjin, isolating Beijing

  • German Minister von Ketteler arrests and executes a boy he thinks is a Boxer

  • Thousands of Boxers burn Christian churches in response to the boy's murder

  • Empress Dowager Cixi decides to fully support Boxers, tries to convince the rest of the ruling officials in the government to also support them.

  • Qing government sends messengers to the foreigners in Beijing to offer them a safe way to leave China without being killed; instead, the foreigners kill the messengers

  • Based on these murders, the Qing government declares war on the foreign powers

  • Chinese set fire to parts of the foreign neighborhood in Beijing

  • The Battle of Tianjin

    Soldiers from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, and the USA join together and take over a city that had been controlled by the Boxers. 550 Boxers and 250 foreigners died. Then the foreign troops looted the city, raping and killing civilians.

  • The Eight-Nation relief force (Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, USA, Italy, and Austria-Hungary) lands on the coast and begins marching to Beijing, so Qing government declares a cease-fire on the foreigners and surrenders.

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