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Conflict East Asia

Dungan Revolt

1862 CE – 1877 CE · 15 years

A devastating ethnic and religious revolt in western China that killed 8–10 million people. Gansu province lost nearly 75% of its population to massacres, famine, and displacement before Qing forces restored control.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Qing Dynasty
  • Hui Muslim rebels

Key moments

Defining events in the Dungan Revolt.

  1. 1862–1863 Siege of Xi'an
  2. 1869–1873 Zuo Zongtang's Gansu Campaign
  3. 1876–1877 Reconquest of Xinjiang

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

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3000 BCE – still standing

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700 CE – 1950 CE

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Taiping Rebellion

1851 CE – 1864 CE

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Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

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Tokugawa Shogunate

1603 CE – 1867 CE

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Nien Rebellion

1851 CE – 1868 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1862 CE and 1877 CE.

1868 CE Boshin War 1873 CE Dutch–Aceh War 1877 CE Satsuma Rebellion 1862 CE Battle of Shiloh 1862 CE Battle of Antietam

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Orongo Landmark · Americas 1400 CE – 1866 CE Rupert's Land Polity · Americas 1670 CE – 1870 CE American Civil War Conflict · Americas 1861 CE – 1865 CE Robert E. Lee Figure · United States 1807 CE – 1870 CE Suez Canal Route Trade route · Europe 1869 CE Old St Paul's Landmark · Oceania 1866 CE – still standing
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