• Leaders of the Boxer Uprising in China, Chi-hsui and Hsu Cheng-yu, were beheaded.
    1901

    "I am satisfied to die. I will die a patriot."

    Two leaders of the Boxer Uprising in China, Chi-hsui and Hsu Cheng-yu, were beheaded in front of massive crowds; after the foreign powers occupied Beijing, they demanded the executions of high-profile Boxers.