1875 in China
Events from the year 1875 in China.
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Incumbents
- Tongzhi Emperor (15th year)
- Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi
- Guangxu Emperor (1st year)
Events
- Tongzhi Emperor dies without an heir, Empress Dowager Cixi selects her three-year-old nephew Zaitian as the Guangxu Emperor to succeed him
- Dungan Revolt (1862–77)
- February 21 — Margary Affair British explorer Augustus Raymond Margary and his entire staff murdered in Yunnan
- 60 to 70 Christian women in Amoy attended a meeting presided by a missionary John MacGowan formed the Natural Foot (tianzu, literally Heavenly Foot) Society,[1][2] opposing the practice of footbinding
- American trading company Augustine Heard & Co. becomes bankrupt
Deaths
- Empress Xiaozheyi
- Ding Yan
- 12 January — Tongzhi Emperor
References
- Dorothy Ko (2008). Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. University of California Press. pp. 14–16. ISBN 978-0520253902.
- 不缠足会
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