Governor Orders Massacre: 45 Missionaries Die in Boxer Rebellion
Shanxi Governor Yuxian ordered the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and Chinese converts, including women and children, during the Boxer Rebellion's bloodiest provincial purge. The massacre galvanized Western powers into assembling the Eight-Nation Alliance that would march on Beijing within weeks. The atrocity permanently damaged China's diplomatic standing and contributed to the punitive Boxer Protocol that imposed crippling indemnities on the Qing dynasty.
July 9, 1900
126 years ago
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