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Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.

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Empress Dowager Cixi

Regent of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908)

Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively but periodically controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost 50 years, from 1861 until her death in 1908. Selected as a concubine of the…
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Diplomat

Person conducting diplomacy with another entity

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state, intergovernmental, or nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
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