1901: Leaders Of The Boxer Uprising In China Beheaded.

Boxer Uprising (1898-1900) is a period of anti-foreign movement in China, culminating in a desperate uprising against Westerners and western influence. By the end of the 19th century, the Western powers and Japan has established wide interests in China. The Ch'ing regime, already weakened by European encroachments, was more enfeebled by Japan's success in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) and the subsequent further partitioning of China inti foreign spheres of influence. The Ch'ing emperor, Kuang-Hsu, attempted to meet the imperialist threat by adopting modern educational and administrative reforms, but he stirred conservative opposition and was frustrated (1898) bt the dowager empress, Tz'u Hsi,who, favouring a last effort to expel foreign influence, supported armed resistance.
The empress tacility encouraged an anti-foreign secret society called I Ho Ch'uan (In Mandarin means - Righteous, Harmonious Fists) or, in English, the Boxers. The Boxers soon grew powerful, and late in 1899 the movement began to assume menacing proportions. Violent attacks on foreigners and on Chinese Christians occurred.By June 1900, the Boxers occupied Beijing and for eight weeks besieged the foreigners and Chinese Christians there. Provincial governors in south-east China suppressed the court's declaration of war and assured the powers of protection for foreign interests, thus limiting the area of conflict to north China, The siege was lifted in August 1900 by an international force of British, French, Russian, American, German and Japanese troops, which had fought its way through from Tianjin. The Boxer Uprising thus ended when the Boxer leaders, Chi-Hsui and Hsu Cheng-Yu, were beheaded on 26 February 1901.

1971: East Pakistan Proclaimed Its Independence, Taking The Name Bangladesh

26 March 1971: What is now called Bangladesh is part of the historic region of Bengal, The north-east portion of the Indian subcontinent.Buddhists ruled for centuries, but by the 10th century Bengal was primarily Hindu. In 1576, Bengal became part of the Mogul Empire, and the majority of East Bengalis converted to Islam. Bengal was ruled by British India from 1757 until Britain withdrew in 1947, and Pakistan was founded out of two predominantly Muslim regions of the Indian subcontinent. For almost 25 years after independence from Britain, its history was part of Pakistan's. West and East Pakistan were united by religion (Islam), but teh people were separated by culture, physical features, and 1,000 miles of Indian Territory.

Tension between East and west Pakistan developed from the outset because if their vast geographic, economic, and cultural differences. East Pakistan's Awami League, a political party founded by the Bengali nationalist Sheik Mujibur Rahman in 1949, sought independence from West Pakistan. Althought 56% of the population resided in East Pakistan, the West jeld the lion's share pf political and economic power. In the 1970 East Pakistanis secured a majority of the seats in the national assembly. President Yahya Khan postponed the opening of the national assembly in the attempt to circumvent East Pakistan's demand for greater autonomy. As a consequence East Pakistan seceded, and the independent state of Bangladesh, or Bengali nation, was proclaimed on 26 March 1971.