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The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang (now Wuchang District of Wuhan), Hubei, China on 10 October 1911, beginning the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last imperial dynasty.
- 10 October-1 December 1911
- Wuchang, Hubei, China
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The flash-point came on 10 October 1911, with the Wuchang Uprising, an armed rebellion among members of the New Army. Similar revolts then broke out spontaneously around the country, and revolutionaries in all provinces of the country renounced the Qing dynasty.
Finally, in the autumn of 1911, the right set of conditions turned an uprising in Wuchang into a nationalist revolt. As its losses mounted, the Qing court responded positively to a set of demands intended to transform authoritarian imperial rule into a Constitutional monarchy.
A frieze commemorating the Wuching uprising of 1911. The 1911 Revolution was the spontaneous but popular uprising that ended the long reign of the Qing dynasty. It is also known as the Xinhai Revolution, after the Chinese calendar year in which it occurred.
A revolt in the city of Wuchang that started the Chinese Revolution of 1911. An accidental explosion forced republican revolutionaries to begin a planned uprising earlier than intended, but on the next day army units that had been won over to the rebel cause seized the city.
Chinese Revolution (1911–12), nationalist democratic revolt that overthrew the Qing (or Manchu) dynasty in 1912 and created a republic, albeit one that would, in the succeeding decades, witness the progressive collapse of national unity and orderly government. Learn more about the Chinese Revolution here.
Oct 11, 2023 · In the city of Wuchang — one of the three cities that make up the middle Yangtze metropolis of Wuhan — members of two dissident groups were working to bring down the Manchu monarchy that had ruled China since the 1640s.
