1904 in China

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← 1903 1902 1901 1900 1899 1904 in China → 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1904 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

The following lists events that happened during 1904 in China.

Incumbents[]

• Guangxu Emperor (25th year)

Events[]

January[]

• January 13 — Chang Chih-tung and other advisers propose ending the civil service examinations.^[1]

February[]

• February 25 - Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren establish the revolutionary Society for the Revival of the Chinese Nation Chinese: 華興會; pinyin: Huáxīnghuì in Changsha.

March[]

• March — The Shanghai radical paper The Alarm Bell is shut down under German pressure
• March 31 - The British Indian Army and the Qing dynasty garrison troops in charge of Qumei Xingu exchanged fire. The British Indian Army slaughtered more than 700 people with machine guns and artillery.

April[]

• In mid-April - the British Indian Army entered the Gyantse County. In the face of the strong fortifications of Gyangzong Zongshan, the British army transferred more than 4,000 reinforcements and eight cannons from India and a large number of advanced armor-piercing projectiles.
• April 27 - Chinese representative Tang Shaoyi and the British Ambassador to China, Ernest Mason Satow, formally signed the 《Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet》. Britain agrees not to occupy Tibet and not to interfere in all politics in Tibet.

June[]

• June 12 - the “Eastern Times“ was published in Shanghai, and was published by Japanese Munakata Kotarou  [zh]. The actual founder was Di Chuqing  [zh]. At the beginning of the publication, Kang Youwei's student Luo Xiaogao served as the chief editor, and the newspaper became an important mouthpiece of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.
• June 21 — A special Imperial pardon is extended to all reformers of 1898, except Sun Yat-sen, Liang Qichao, and Kang Youwei
• Kwangsi revolt of a Heaven and Earth Society (underway since 1902)
• June 24 — The Kwangsi rebels take Liucheng

July[]

• July 7 - the British Indian Army captured Gyantse County Zongshan.
• July 31 — The Imperial Court orders the governors of south China to suppress the Kwangsi revolt after the rebels take Ishan

August[]

• August 3 - Lhasa was occupied by the British Indian Army, and the 13th Dalai Lama fled to Mongolia via Qinghai.
• August 24 — Imperial troops defeat the rebels at Ishan

September[]

• Sep.23-Oct.05 — The Kwangsi rebels briefly take Loshing

October[]

• Octobar 17 - Zhang Boling founded Tianjin Nankai High School.

Nov / Dec[]

• November — The leader of the Kwangsi revolt is captured by Imperial forces
• Nov / Dec — The secret ‘Restoration Society’ is established in Shanghai by revolutionary intellectuals (see 1910)
• 1904 — Sun Yat-sen publishes his manifesto Summary of the Revolution.

Births[]

• August 22 — Deng Xiaoping, in Sichuan Paramount Leader of China (died 1997)^[2]

Deaths[]

• April 13 - Imperial Noble Consort Shushen, a consort of the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty (b. 1859).
• Qiu Yufang, revolutionary, writer and feminist (b. 1871)

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