1, burning Yuanmingyuan
In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), after the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, they occupied Yuanmingyuan. China's defenders were outnumbered, and Wenfeng, the chief minister of Yuanmingyuan, committed suicide by throwing himself into Fuhai. Chang Ai, who lived in the garden, was scared to death.
With the support of British Prime Minister Pa Max Don, British leader Elgin ordered the burning of Yuanmingyuan. 3,500 British and French troops rushed into Yuanmingyuan and set fire to it. The fire didn't go out for three days.
Yuanmingyuan and its nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burned into ruins. In Anyou Palace, nearly 300 eunuchs, maids-in-waiting, and craftsmen were buried in the sea of fire. Turn this world-famous garden into ruins. The fire burned for three days and nights and became a rare atrocity in the history of world civilization.
2. May 30th tragedy
May 30th (à) tragedy (also known as the May 30th massacre, or write five? The 30th Massacre, named after it happened on May 30th, 1925, was the fuse of the May 30th movement of the anti-imperialist patriotic movement.
On May 30th, more than 2,000 Shanghai students distributed leaflets and delivered speeches in the concession, protesting against the suppression of workers' strike by Japanese yarn factory capitalists, killing worker Gu Zhenghong, supporting workers and calling for the withdrawal of the concession. 100 people were arrested by the British police.
In the afternoon, more than 10,000 people gathered at the gate of Nanjing Road in the British Concession, demanding the release of the arrested students and shouting slogans such as "Down with imperialism". British police shot and killed 13 people on the spot, seriously injured dozens of people and arrested 150 people, which caused the May 30 tragedy that shocked China and foreign countries.
3. Jinan tragedy
The Jinan Massacre is also known as the May 3rd Massacre. In the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), Chiang Kai-shek led the National Revolutionary Army to the Northern Expedition. Japanese militarism was worried that once China was unified, it would not allow Japan to invade wantonly, so it tried its best to obstruct the Northern Expedition.
1928 in may, Japan sent troops to Jinan, Qingdao and Ji Jiao railways in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, and prepared to use force to stop the northern expedition of the National Revolutionary Army.
On May 1 Day, when the National Revolutionary Army regained Jinan, the Japanese army invaded the Shandong Negotiation Department set up by the China government on May 3, cut off the ears and nose of the negotiator Cai Gongshi, then shot and killed all the staff of the negotiation department, and attacked the headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, burning and looting in Jinan.
In this case, more than 7,000 people were killed, 2,000 injured and 5,000 captured in China. At the same time, the Japanese army detained a large number of vehicles in Jinan, cut off the traffic lines and seized the administrative organs along the Ji Jiao.
4. The sharky Massacre
The Xia Ji Massacre took place on June 23rd 1925, also known as the June 23rd incident, which refers to the incident in which British soldiers shot down a parade in Guangzhou, causing serious casualties.
On June 2 1925 and 2 1 day, workers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou also went on strike to support the striking workers in Shanghai, and the workers left their jobs and returned to Guangzhou.
1On June 23rd, 925, people from all walks of life in Guangdong held a conference in the eastern suburbs to denounce the May 30th massacre made by imperialism in Shanghai, and then held a demonstration. Chen Yannian and Zhou Enlai, the main leaders of Guangdong District Committee, attended the military parade.
At 2pm15pm, the procession arrived at Shaji before the parade and turned into Cai Lan Street in an orderly way. After the parade, the procession continued to March in Shaji and Xidi in an orderly way.
At 2: 40, when students from Lingnan University, Wei Kun Women's Normal School, Sacred Heart College, Zhixin, Guangzhou No.2 Middle School and Huangpu Military Academy marched to Shaji, a foreigner on the Victoria Hotel (now Shengli Hotel) next to Shamian West Bridge first shot at the parade.
The British and French troops at the foot of Shamian West Bridge, which was already on alert, immediately fired at Shaji, and the parade could not escape, killing many people on the spot. In order to avoid the deterioration of the situation, China soldiers and military school students who took part in the parade obeyed the discipline and did not fight back.
1926 The road built here was named 623 as a memorial.
5. Sha Tin Massacre
1922 65438+ 10, Hong Kong seamen went on strike and were suppressed by the British Hong Kong authorities. In March, a large number of workers were forced to leave Hong Kong angrily and walk back to Guangzhou.
On March 4th, when workers went to Sha Tin, Kowloon, they were shot by British military and police, killing six people and injuring hundreds, resulting in the "Sha Tin Massacre".
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