1870 What dynasty was it?
1870, year number: nine years of tongzhi; Geng Wunian (Year of the Horse); Emperor Meiji of Japan for three years. After the Beijing Treaty was signed in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), French Catholic missionaries set up a church in Wanghailou, Tianjin, collected their minions, abducted people, occupied civilian fields and aroused public anger. In May of the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), thirty or forty babies died in the nursery attached to the church, and at the same time, the abduction of young children also occurred constantly.
1870 event:
1870 During April and May, there were many incidents of children missing and being kidnapped in Tianjin. At the beginning of June, the weather was hot and the epidemic was prevalent. Thirty or forty orphans died in the nursery. So people began to spread rumors that foreign nuns used nurseries as crutches, but in fact they kidnapped and killed children as medicinal materials.
On June 20, Wu Lanzhen, a gangster handed over by residents to the government, was implicated in the confession of parishioner Wang Sanhe and the church. As a result, public resentment boiled, gentry gathered, academies closed, and anti-Westernization sentiment rose. On the morning of June 2 1, Liu Jie, a magistrate of a county in Tianjin, took Wu Lanzhen, a prisoner, to Wanghailou Catholic Church, and found that there was no Wang Sanqi in the church and no shed fence provided by Wu Lanzhen. Father Xie Gospel has also discussed with Chonghou how to deal with the aftermath of the nursery.
Baidu Encyclopedia-1870