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| 1898 | Adviser |  |
| Appointed Adviser to the Emperor |
| 1899 | Rebellion |  |
| Supports attacks on missionaries because of the Great Powers' incursion into China |
| 1900 | Declaration of War |  |
| June Japan announces, "no more communication with China - except war" |
| 1900 | Rebellion |  |
| The anti-western Boxer (Yihetuan) rebellion is crushed by foreign troops (Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA) and Tsu Hsi flees to the mountains |
| May Hankow The Boxers raise their standard of revolt on the railway line to Hankow |
| 21st May Peking Foreign diplomats call on China to suppreess anti-foreigner activities of the Boxers |
| 1900 | Siege of Blagoveshchensk |  |
| June Blagoveshchensk The Boxers bombard the Russian town of Blagoveshchensk that lies across the Amur River |
| 1900 | Siege of Peking |  |
| May Peking Boxers march with the slogan, "death & destruction to the foreigner & all his works" |
| June Peking The Roman Catholic Church is burnt to the ground |
| 13th June Peking The Boxers enter Peking & destroy most of the foreign owned buildings |
| Aug Peking The Allies capture Peking & impose stricter conditions on China |
| 1900 | Siege of Port Arhur |  |
| June Port Arthur The Boxers blow up the railway line under Russian construction to Port Arthur |
| 1901 | Peace |  |
| 7th Sep China is forced to pay ineminities to the world powers |
| 7th Sep The Peace of Beijing ends the Boxer Rebellion |
| 1901 | Viceroy |  |
| Pohai Appointed Viceroy of Pohai |
| 1907 | Grand Councillor |  |
| Appointed Grand Councillor |
| 1908 | Capture |  |
| Hankow Captures Hankow from the Nationalists |
| 1908 | Exile |  |
| Exiled after the death of the Emperor |
| 1908 | Government |  |
| Forms a republican government |
| 1908 | President |  |
| Appointed President of China, at the head of a republican government |
| 1908 | Prime Minister |  |
| Appointed Prime Minister of China, to suppress the Nationalist rebellion |
| 1908 | Rebellion |  |
| Comes out of retirement to suppress the rebellion |
| 1909 | Death |  |
| 2nd Jan Death of Shihkai & Chidong, power is passed to the Manchus |
| 1911 | Commander |  |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Northern forces after the death of the Emperor |
| 1911 | Prime Minister |  |
| Appointed Prime Minister of China after the Assembly is recalled |
| 1912 | Commander |  |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1912 | President |  |
| Appointed President of China |
| 1913 | Assassination |  |
| 20th Mar Shanghai Has Sung Chiao-jen assassinated, provokes the Chinese 2nd Revolution |
| 1913 | Capture |  |
| River Yangtze Stops revolution by bringing the Yangtze Valley under the control of the Northern Army |
| 1st Sep Nangking Yuan's forces capture Nangking from the Nationalist Kuomintang |
| 3rd Sep Nanjing Captures Nanjing |
| 1913 | Declaration of War |  |
| 12th July The Chinese 2nd Revolution breaks out |
| 1913 | Independence |  |
| Yunnan declares its independence from the central Government |
| 5th Nov China recognizes the autonomy of Outer Mongolia |
| 5th Nov Declaration by Russia & China of Outer Mongolian autonomy under Chinese suzerainty |
| 1913 | Kuomintang, The |  |
| Abolishes the Kuomanting Party |
| 1st Nov Outlaws the Kuomindang Party |
| 1913 | President |  |
| 6th Oct Appointed President of all China after the resignation of Sun Yat-Sen in the South |
| 6th Oct Appointed President of the Republic of China |
| 1913 | Reparations |  |
| 16th Sep Japan sends a flotilla to the Yangtzi because China fails to honour reparations |
| 1913 | Rule of Mongolia |  |
| 5th Nov Declaration by Russia & China of Outer Mongolian autonomy under Chinese suzerainty |
| 1914 | Constitution |  |
| 11th Jan Dismisses Parliament & becomes a dictator |
| 11th Jan Governs China without Parliament |
| 1914 | Parliament |  |
| Jan Yuan closes Parliament |
| 11th Jan Dismisses Parliament & becomes a dictator |
| 1914 | President |  |
| Jan Appointed President of China for life by a council of his own selection |
| 1914 | Restoration |  |
| Attempts to restore the monarchy but is prevented by the foreign powers |
| 1915 | 21 Demands |  |
| Yuan is forced to agree to Japan's "Twenty One Demands " |
| 1915 | Demands 21 |  |
| Forced to agree to Japan's "Twenty One Demands " |
| 1915 | Restoration |  |
| The monarchy is restored |
| 1915 | Surrender |  |
| Yuan is forced to agree to Japan's "Twenty One Demands " |
| 1916 | Death |  |
| 6th June Death of Shih-Kai Yuan, China plunges into chaos |
| 1917 | Alliance |  |
| China joins World War I on the side of Britain, France, Japan and the USA, the first time ever that Chinese soldiers walk into another continent |
| 1917 | Declaration War |  |
| China joins World War I on the side of Britain, France, Japan and the USA, the first time ever that Chinese soldiers walk into another continent |