1900

War with Qing Dynasty

• Thousands of Manchus fled south from Aigun during the fighting in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, their cattle and horses were then stolen by Russian Cossacks who then burned their villages and homes until only ashes were left. The clan system of the Manchus in Aigun was obliterated by the despoliation of the area at the hands of the Russian invaders.

• 1900-1903 Russification of Finland

• 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion

• 1857-1906 The Russians established a penal colony on Sakhalin. They transported numerous Russian criminal and political exiles there, including Lev Shternberg, an important early ethnographer of the Nivkh. The Nivkh were soon outnumbered; they were sometimes employed as prison guards and to track escaped convicts

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1795-1918 Belorussia under Russian rule

• 1783-1917 War with Georgia

• 1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia

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