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Juye Incident

1 Nov 1897 · 35.55° N, 115.99° E

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When
1 Nov 1897
Kind
Riot
Coordinates
35.55° N, 115.99° E
Description
1897 murders in China, led to Boxer Uprising

Juye Incident

1897 murders of Catholic missionaries in China

Juye Incident or Caozhou Incident orrefers to the killing of two German Catholic missionaries, Richard Henle and Franz Xaver Nies, of the Society of the Divine Word, in Juye County Shandong Province, Qing China in the night of 1–2 November 1897. The likely target of the attack, the local resident missionary Georg Maria Stenz, survived unharmed.

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