The Boxer Uprising of 1900 took place in China. Also called the Boxer Rebellion or Yihetuan Movement, it was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist and anti-Christian uprising in northern China during the final years of the Qing dynasty.
The Boxers began as local groups opposing foreign influence, Christian missionaries and concessions granted to outside powers. Their movement spread through Shandong and the North China Plain, especially amid drought, flooding and resentment after China’s defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. In 1900, the conflict reached Beijing, where Boxers and Qing forces besieged foreign diplomats and civilians in the Legation Quarter.
An Eight-Nation Alliance sent troops to relieve the siege and captured Beijing in August 1900. The crisis ended formally with the Boxer Protocol, signed on September 7, 1901. China was required to pay a huge indemnity and punish officials who had supported the uprising. The rebellion further weakened the Qing government and contributed to the revolutionary pressures that eventually brought down the dynasty in 1911.