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Events on Wednesday 21 September 1898 1
1898Hundred Days' Reform ends in coupEmpress Dowager Cixi halts the Guangxu Emperor's reform programChina's Guangxu Emperor launched sweeping modernization reforms on 11 June 1898, covering education, the military and administration. Conservative officials backed Empress Dowager Cixi in a coup on 21 September 1898 that placed the emperor under house arrest and reversed most of the edicts. Several reform leaders were executed and others, including Kang Youwei, fled abroad.