November: Northern China: Chinese peasant–based revolution
–protesting against foreign domination of China. Foreign railroad workers (building railways) were attacked. As were Christians, held responsible, as a group, for foreign domination.
Subsequently, in June 1900, the Boxers (the Society of Right and Harmonious Fists) invaded Beijing and killed 230 diplomats and foreigners. 55 days later, a multi–nation coalition of 20,000 troops entered Beijing and rescued the remaining diplomats who were sequestered in terror in embassies, etc.
Reforms implemented subsequent to the crisis, set the stage for the end of the last Chinese dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, in turn, setting the stage for the Chinese Republic, and the brutal 20th century journey it would subsequently take.