France and Germany signed a peace treaty in which Germany withdrew all claims to North Africa and Morocco was partitioned between France and Spain. Germany took 107,270 miles of the French Congo. Germany ceded 6.450 miles of German Cameroon to FRance. This brought to an end the Agadir Crisis.
Troops of Nanjing warlord Xu Shaozhen（徐绍祯）massacreed approximately 4,500 Manchus.
This would become increasingly common during the 1911 Revolution.
It was a Saturday.
The Chevrolet Motor Company was incorporated by former General Motors Chairman William C. Durant to manufacture an inexpensive automobile designed by Swiss born race car driver Louis Chevrolet.
The government of the Qing Dynasty acknowledged errors, doing so in the name of the then five year old Emperor, Pu Yi.
The tragedy of his life had begun.
The events in China were on the front page of the Cheyenne newspaper.
Along with a familiar complaint about conservation.
The aftermath of the train wreck at Rock River was also front page news, as was the recall of a Signal Corps unit from the Mexican Border.
An ad showed what time of year it was.
It also reported on the events of the 1911 Chinese Revolution.
Note that the 1901 entry for this date also features a train accident. They seem to have been distressingly common at the time.
I debated on the next one, but this blog exists to show how things were. An advertisement from the same newspaper:
Post Toasties were introduced into the market in 1904 as Elijah's Manna, which drew objections from religious groups. The name was changed in 1908. Post discontinued the brand in 2016.
Joseph Pulitzer died at age 64. His will founded the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Tsu-Cheng Yuan (资政院), China's new National Assembly, demanded a cabinet of ministers without Manchu nobility, an amnesty for persons who committed political offenses, and a permanent constitution.
The Qing Dynasty made Yuan Shikai (袁世凱) Commander in Chief of the government's armed forces.
Sichuan Province declared its independence from China.
Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became outraged after learning that President Taft had directed the U.S. Department of Justice to file suit against the United States Steel Company on antitrust basis. The suit claimed U.S. Steel had deceived Roosevelt. This event would help propoell Roosevelt to run against Taft for the Oval Office.
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Li Huan-hung (Li Yuan Hung) proclaimed himself President of the Republic of China.
The Athletics took the World Series in Game 6.
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With the country in the throws of a budding revolution, the Chinese National Assembly opened in Beijing, as scheduled.
The revolution was making front page news in the U.S.
Hunting season was on, and an add for shotgun shells demonstrated how slowly some technological advances were impacting things.
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A company of Marines landed at Hankou, in Hubei, to protect the property and employees of the Standard Oil Company as the revolution in China started to spread.
Qing Dynasty Minister of War Prince Yin-chang secretly requested Japanese assistance in putting down the ongoing nationalist uprising.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, was sworn in as the new Governor General of Canada.
Ford Motors opened its first plant in the United Kingdom.
Hubei provinces assembly voted to secede from the Chinese Empire and form a republic.
Colonel Li Yuanhong announced the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the cities of Hangkow and Hanyang were occupied by the rebels.
The Society of American Indians held its organizing convention, in Columbus, Ohio.
The Battle of Ambarawa began between Indonesian and Dutch forces, proof, I suppose, that war doesn't tire people from war, in spite of what people may suppose.
Mongolia voted 100% in favor of leaving China, which it had really done in 1911 anyway, with over a 98% voter turnout.
100%?
And that voter turn out?
Anyhow, Mongolia became de facto independent in 1911, although China entered with force in 1919. In one of the bizarro incitements of history, the Chinese were forced out by the forces of the uber creepy White Russian forces of Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, whose forces were in turn routed by the Red Army in 1921, whereupon it became a defacto Soviet satellite.
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The "White Wolf", rebel Bai Lang, broke through a Chinese Army blockade numbering 5,000 men with his 1,000.
Bai Yung-chang, or Bai Langzai, or Bai Lang, the latter of which was a pseudonym, was a 41-year-old rebel and one time governor of Henan and almost bandit, dissuaded from that fate after killing a man in a fight by his family. He'd been trained in the military arts in Japan and had served in the Beiyang Army after the outbreak of the Chinese rebellion of 1911. The tugid politics of revolutionary China drove him into allegiance with the bandit forces of Du Quiin.
The Revolution of 1911 has never really resolved, sharing therefore a bit of the history of the Mexican Revolution, which didn't resolve until 2000 with the election of Vicente Fox. Fox established that Mexico had evolved from a one party state into a true democracy, one which has a solid middle class, no matter how much Mexicans and Americans refuse to believe it, today. China, on the other hand, fell into an ineffective chaotic republic that collapsed into civil war, from which the Chinese Communist Party emerged as the one party ruler. Ultimately, and likely soon, that party will fall and a true Chinese republic will emerge, but it's taking quite some time to occur. Still, no matter its bluster, the current People's Republic of China, will evolve into something else, just as Revolutionary Mexico did.
Another bandit/rebel was in the news in 1914, José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, but by his pseudonym as well, Pancho Villa.
The Mexican Federal government of Gen. Huerta was collapsing, and as it collapsed the news increasing turned towards the spectacular victories of the rebel Ejército del Norte and its leader, Pancho Villa. And with that, speculation was rampant that Villa would declare himself held of state.
In fact, Villa, who had been fanatically loyal to Modero, was not yet disloyal to Carranza. . . but that day was coming.
The region had been part of China until it broke away during the 1911 Revolution.
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A major event in Chinese and world history occurred when an accidental ignition of gunpowder sparked a police investigation in Wuchang. This sparked an early uprising ahead of one that rebels had been planning using the excuse of popular unrest about a railway crisis.
Elsewhere, in Hubei Province, an order to arrest Chinese Army conspirators resulted in mutineers in control of an arsenal and the provincial treasury.
October 10 is National Day of the Republic of China.
California voters approved women's suffrage in a initiative and referendum, which was interestingly the vote that also approved initiatives and referendums. Recall of elected officials was also approved.
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The Qing Dynasty, hoping to hold off growing revolutionary impulses in China, promulgated a new constitution featuring some democratic reform.
Legendary Bluegrass musician Bill Monroe was born in Rosline, Kentucky. He is regarded as the father of Bluegrass.
