Boxer revolution timeline

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  • First Protestant Christian missionary arrives

  • Period: to

    Lead up to Rebellion

  • Daoguang Emperor expels missionaries for distributing Christian books

  • Western Christian missionaries flood into China

    Try to convert Chinese people to Christianity

  • First Opium War

    Great Britain establishes a sphere of influence along the Yangtze River, annexes Hong Kong, and provides extraterritorial rights to all foreigners in China

  • China signs the Treaty of Huangpu

  • Taiping Rebellion against Qing Dynasty.

    Millions of Chinese Christians revolt against the Qing Dynasty, but the rebellion fails after 14 years of fighting. 30,000,000 Chinese people are dead

  • Second Opium War

    Britain and France demanded to re-negotiate their treaties to increase the power of their spheres of influence. Because of
    the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty is too weak to fight Britain and France, and gives in to harsher treaties with Britain and France.

  • First Sino-Japanese War

    Japan defeats China and annexes Korea

  • Armed men kill two German Catholic Missionaries

    Germany’s Kaiser (King) Wilhelm II sends a fleet of ships to Shandong to establish a sphere of influence.

  • Drought followed by flooding strikes Shandong

  • Young men form the “Righteous and Harmonious Fist” group, practicing shadow boxing

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

  • Chinese set fire to parts of the foreign neighbourhood

  • Boxers cut railroad line at Tianjin

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

  • Period: to

    The boxer rebellion

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

  • Thousands of Boxers burn Christian churches

  • Empress Dowager Cixi decides to fully support Boxers

  • Qing government sends messengers to the foreigners in Beijing

    Messengers get killed b foreigners

  • Qing government declares war on the foreign powers

  • 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.

  • The Eight-Nation relief force lands on the coast and begins marching to Beijing,

  • Qing officials are forced to sign the Boxer Protocol

    Making them pay for the aftermath of war over 40 years
  • Period: to

    Aftermath of the Rebellion

  • Empress Dowager Cixi dies

  • Qing Dynasty falls, ending almost 400 years of monarchy in China