Hundred Days' Reform
Emperor Guangxu tries to modernise China and ends up confined
In summer 1898 Emperor Guangxu, advised by Kang Youwei, issued dozens of edicts on new schools, the army and the civil service. After 103 days the Empress Dowager Cixi staged a coup: the emperor was confined in the palace, six reformers were executed and Kang Youwei fled to Japan.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 16 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 20 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 22 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 12 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 9 years earlier
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — 3 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 7 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 21 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 3 years earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 7 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 10 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 19 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 7 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 10 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 10 years later
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 17 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 18 years later
Africa
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 12 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 1 year earlier
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — same year
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 1 year later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 6 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 22 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 19 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 5 years later
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 8 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 16 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 5 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 5 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 13 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 79)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 70)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 64)
- Thomas Edison (aged 51)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 42)
- Marie Curie (aged 31)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 29)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 28)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 27)
- Winston Churchill (aged 24)