1908 in China

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{{Year in China|1908}}

Events from the year 1908 in China.

Incumbents

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Events

  • March 4 – One of earlier financial service founded in this nation, China Bank of Communications was founded.{{Cite web |title=交通银行 - 交银金融网 |url=http://www.bankcomm.com/BankCommSite/shtml/jyjr/cn/7804/16356/2629241.shtml?channelId=7804 |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=www.bankcomm.com |language=Chinese}}
  • July 22 — The Qing government issues the Outline of Imperial Constitution, based on the Meiji Constitution of Japan, which establishes a framework for local and national legislative elections to be held.
  • December 2 — Aisin Gioro Puyi ascended the throne at the age of three as the Xuantong Emperor, the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty.

Births

Deaths

  • November 14 - Guangxu Emperor (b. 1871){{cite web |title=Guangxu {{!}} emperor of Qing dynasty |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=25 March 2019 |language=en}}
  • November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi (b. 1835){{cite book |last1=Kögel |first1=Eduard |title=The Grand Documentation: Ernst Boerschmann and Chinese Religious Architecture (1906–1931) |date=2015 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=9783110401349 |page=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZgoCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA290|language=en}}

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