26 févr. 1901 - Chi-hsui and Hsu-cheng-yu, Boxer Rebellion leaders, are publicly beheaded in Beijing in front of a crowd of about 10,000

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The two had been in the custody of the Japanese Army and were remanded to China's "Board of Punishments" for the executions. According to Lieutenant Colonel Goro Shiba, the Japanese legation's military attaché, he treated the two condemned men to champagne, and Chi-hsui told him "I do not know what I have done to make me deserving of death, but if beheading me will make the foreign troops evacuate Peking and my Emperor return, I am satisfied to die. I will die a patriot."

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