title: 1900 in China
text: # 1900 in China
  
  Events in the year 1900 in China.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Guangxu Emperor (26th year)
  
  ### Viceroys
  
  * Viceroy of Zhili — Yulu then Li Hongzhang
  * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Xu Yingkui
  * Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Zhidong
  * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Wei Guangtao then Songfan
  * Viceroy of Liangguang — Deshou then Li Hongzhang then Lu Chuanlin then Tao Mo
  * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Songfan then Wei Guangtao
  * Viceroy of Sichuan — Kuijun
  * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Liu Kunyi
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 15, Li Hongzhang, Viceroy of Liangguang, visited Hong Kong and met with Governor Henry Arthur Blake.
  
  ### March
  
  * March 27, Li Hongzhang, Viceroy of Liangguang, provinces reported to the central government that some of the gangsters in Hong Kong wanted to attack the provincial capital, and secretly demanded that the Governor of Hong Kong to ban.
  
  ### June
  
  * June 10–28 - Seymour Expedition
  * June 16–17 - Battle of Dagu Forts (1900)
  * June — Zhang Decheng went to see the Viceroy of Zhili, Yu Lu. He presented himself to him as the founder of the Boxer movement, and the viceroy promised to provide the Boxers with money and equipment.[2]
  * June 20 – August 14 - Siege of the International Legations
  * June Taiyuan Nationalist reaction in China against Christian missionaries and churches claimed more than thirty-two thousand lives. The worst massacres occurred in the northern province of Shanxi, particularly Taiyuan.
  
  ### July
  
  * July 13–14 - Battle of Tientsin
  
  ### August
  
  * August - Gaselee Expedition
  * August 5 - Battle of Beicang
  * August 6 - Battle of Yangcun
  * August 14–15 - Battle of Peking (1900)
  
  ### September
  
  * September 20 - Battle of Beitang
  
  ### other
  
  * Boxer Rebellion
     * Battle of Shanhaiguan (1900)
     * Boxers attacks on Chinese Eastern Railway
     * Defence of Yingkou
     * Battle of Pai-t'ou-tzu
     * Battles on Amur River (1900)
     * Russian Invasion of Northern and Central Manchuria (1900)
  
  ## Births
  
  * June 17 - Xu Haidong
  * June 30 - Zhang Wentian
  * December 8 - Sun Li-jen
  * Xia Minghan
  * Zhou Shidi
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * July - Nie Shicheng
  * Ma Fulu
  * Xu Jingcheng
  * Tang Caichang
  * Ma Haiyan
  * Consort Zhen
  