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Conflict East Asia

Boxer Protocol and Eight-Nation Alliance

1900 CE – 1901 CE · 1 year

An international military coalition invaded China to relieve the besieged foreign legations in Beijing, imposing crushing indemnities that further humiliated the Qing dynasty.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Eight-Nation Alliance (Japan, Russia, Britain, France, US, Germany, Italy, Austria)
  • Qing China, Boxer rebels

Key moments

Defining events in the Boxer Protocol and Eight-Nation Alliance.

  1. 1900 Siege of the Legations
  2. 1900 Battle of Tientsin
  3. 1900 Fall of Beijing

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Korea

Attested 1000 CE – 1900 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Boxer Rebellion

1899 CE – 1901 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Dutch–Aceh War

1873 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Ha Long Bay

3000 BCE – still standing

And in the rest of the world

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

Thimlich Ohinga Landmark · Africa 1400 BCE – 1900 CE central Asian khanates Polity 1530 CE – 1900 CE Friedrich Nietzsche Figure · Prussia / Switzerland / Italy 1844 CE – 1900 CE Anglo-Ashanti Wars Conflict · Africa 1824 CE – 1900 CE Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing United States of America Polity · Americas Founded 1783 CE · attested to 1900 CE
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