The Turkish Hat Law, banning non Western headgear, took effect.
Beijing's Forbidden City was opened to the public for the first time.
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Tuesday, June 19, 1900. China asks legations to leave.
The Chinese government delivered an ultimatum in response to the attack on the Taku Forts to eleven ambassadors in the legation quarter demanding that all foreign residents, including diplomats, missionaries and their families leave Beijing by 4pm the following day. The demand accompanied a promise to provide troops for a safe exit.
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Monday, June 18, 1900. The Taku Forts surrender.
Thursday, August 17, 2000
Friday, August 17, 1900. The Forbidden City.
The Eight National Alliance's troops entered the Forbidden City.
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Wednesday, August 15, 1900. The murder of the Pearl Consort.
Saturday, August 12, 2000
Sunday, August 12, 1900. Tung-chau.
The Eight Nation Alliance captured Tung-chau, a location 13 miles from Beijing.
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Saturday, August 11, 1900. Laysan.
Friday, August 4, 2000
Saturday, August 4, 1900. Eight Nation Advance.
20,000 troops of the Eight Nation Alliance began an advance from Tianjin to Beijing. 2,500 of those troops were American. The largest contingent, 9000, was Japanese.
Imperial Chinese troops were also traveling to Beijing to reinforce the city.
Jacob Dolson Cox, Civil War general and also lawyer, Republican politician from Ohio, Liberal Republican Party founder, educator, author, and microbiologist passed away at age 78.
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Thursday August 2, 1900 and Tuesday, August 2, 1910. Odd racist coincidence.
Thursday, July 20, 2000
Friday, July 20, 1900. Still alive.
China's minister to the United States, Wu Ting-fang, delivered a telegraphed message from U.S. Ambassador to China Edwin H. Conger to United States Secretary of State John Hay confirming that the foreign envoys in Beijing were still alive.
The message was in cipher. John Hay wasn't fully convinced and sent back a message asking for Conger's sisters name as confirmation, which he rapidly sent.
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Thursday, July 19, 1900. Métro
Monday, July 17, 2000
Tuesday, July 17, 1900. Time Out.
A temporary truce was called between the Chinese Army and the Eight National Alliance in Beijing which allowed for food and the transmission of information to occur.
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Monday, July 16, 1900. Leaving for Munich.
Saturday, July 1, 2000
Sunday, July 1, 1900. A battle in Peking and a royal wedding.
The Chinese army drove off German and American defenders within the legation area but failed to exploit their advantage before the situation was recovered.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, married Sophie Chotek von Chotkova at Reichstadt in Bohemia.
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Tuesday, June 26, 1900. Prejudice and Equality.
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
Wednesday, June 20, 1900. Siege of Peking.
Baron Clemens von Ketteler, the German ambassador to China, was killed by Boxer En Hai as he and an aide went to the Chinese Foreign Ministry without their guards.
Chinese troops began a siege of the Peking Legation Quarter at 4:00 p.m., which was the evacuation deadline. Behind the quarter's walls were 900 foreigners, 523 defenders and 3,000 Chinese Christians.
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Tuesday, June 19, 1900. China asks legations to leave.
Thursday, June 15, 2000
Friday, June 15, 1900. No Boxers.
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Chinese Empress (Tzu Hsi) Cixi decreed that Boxer rebels could not enter Beijing.
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Thursday, June 14, 1900. The end of the Republic of Hawaii.
Labels: 1900, 1900s, Automobile racing, Boxer Rebellion, China, China (Beijing), Germany, Hawaii, Personal comments
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Thursday, June 14, 1900. The end of the Republic of Hawaii.
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The "Act to Provide a Government for the Territory of Hawaii" took effect formally ending Hawaiian sovereignty.
I may have had relatives living on Oahu at the time.
German embassy guards fired on Boxer rebels outside the legation quarter, killing twenty and sparking mass crowd reaction.
The first Bennett Cup auto race was run.
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Wednesday, June 13, 1900. Reacting violently.
Tuesday, June 13, 2000
Wednesday, June 13, 1900. Reacting violently.
Western diplomatic missions began violent reactions to Chinese Boxers on this day, starting with the German legation.
Violence started spreading against Chinese Christians.
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Monday, June 11, 1900. Chinese troops murder a Japanese diplomat.
Sunday, June 11, 2000
Monday, June 11, 1900. Chinese troops murder a Japanese diplomat.
Japanese diplomat Sugiyama Akira was murdered by Imperial Chinese soldiers who dragged Akira from his carriage and hacked him to bits, then displayed his severed head at the railway station in Beijing.
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Sunday, June 10, 1900. Leaving for Beijing.
Saturday, June 10, 2000
Sunday, June 10, 1900. Leaving for Beijing.
A multinational force departed Tianjin for Beijing to protect the citizens of their respective countries but only made it to Langfang before they had to detrain because of rail destruction. The troops would have to march the rest of the way.
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Friday, June 8, 1900. Boxers attack the racetrack.
Saturday, June 3, 2000
Sunday, Juue 3, 1900. Cold reception in a hot climate.
William Howard Taft arrived in Manila on the USS Hancock as Governor-General of the Philippines, replacing General Arthur MacArthur. the last military governor.
Taft would later say; "I cannot describe the coldness of the Army officers and the Army men who received us any better than by saying that it somewhat exceeded the coldness of the populace." Given the attitude of career Army officers at the time, that can't be doubted.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded in New York City.
Germany's comprehensive meat inspection laws in the world, to that time.
Boxers cut the rail line between Beijing and Tianjin.
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