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The chain of events immediately leading to the revolution began when an agreement was signed with a four-power group of foreign bankers for the construction of lines on the Hukwang (Huguang) Railway in central China.
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The premature Huang Hua Kang revolt in Canton is bungled [530.PM]; scores of Revolutionary Alliance activists are executed
==end of April > Reconsidering its strategy, the Revolutionary Alliance decides to concentrate its efforts on the Middle Yangtze area -
the emperor Puyi was a child,
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the dissatisfaction boiled over into open revolt. In several cities Manchu garrisons had been massacred, the regent had been forced out of office, a provisional republican government had been set up at Nanjing”
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in consequence of the uncovering of a plot in Hankou, that had little or no connection with the Sichuan episode, a mutiny broke out among the troops in Wuchang, and this is regarded as the formal beginning of the revolution.
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Three activists are executed in Wuhan [morning] - local revolutionaries fear that mass reprisals are imminent - engineering troops mutiny in Wuchang and seize the arsenal [evening]:
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The revolutionaries fully control the three cities of Wuhan (Wuchang, Hankow, and Hanyang)
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The Revolutionary Military Governor of Hunan is assassinated by local anti-Manchu elites - ~splits between moderate and radical rebels
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Sun Yat-sen is elected president
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Yuan agreed to an armistice and entered upon negotiations with the republicans.