What the records say
- When
- 18 Oct 1871
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 54
- Coordinates
- 22.15° N, 120.78° E
- Description
- killing of 54 Ryūkyūan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered into Taiwan after shipwreck, causing the Taiwan Expedition of 1874 by Japan
- Injured
- 12
Mudan incident
Massacre of Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan
The Mudan incident of 1871 was the massacre of 54 Ryukyuan sailors in Qing-era Taiwan who wandered into the central part of Taiwan after being shipwrecked off Taiwan's southeastern coast. Twelve survivors were rescued by local Han people and were later returned to Miyako Island in the Ryukyu Islands.
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- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mudan incident in Taiwan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “台湾に漂着した琉球島民54人が現地人に殺害される宮古島島民遭難事件が起こる。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page