Empress Dowager Cixi
1835 CE–1908 CE · Beijing
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty for much of its final half-century. Entering the palace as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and mother of his heir, she rose after his death in 1861 to rule as regent for her young son and later her nephew, the Tongzhi and Guangxu emperors. She suppressed the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform and supported the Boxers against foreign powers in 1900, an act that led to the occupation of Beijing; though she sanctioned reforms in her last years, she died in 1908 with the dynasty deeply weakened.
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Daoguang Emperor, Xianfeng Emperor, Yuan Shikai, Guangxu Emperor, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping
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- Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- Murad V· 1840 CE–1904 CE
- William McKinley· 1843 CE–1901 CE
- Porfirio Díaz· 1830 CE–1915 CE
- Grover Cleveland· 1837 CE–1908 CE
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
- Alexander III· 1845 CE–1894 CE
- Geronimo (Goyaałé)· 1829 CE–1909 CE
- Norodom· 1834 CE–1904 CE
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Standing Bear (Ma'chú-nu-zhe)· 1829 CE–1908 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
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