Yiwei Guangzhou uprising

The Yiwei Guangzhou Uprising, also known as the First Guangzhou Uprising or the Yiwei Guangzhou Campaign, took place on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar during the 21st year of the Guangxu era (1895). It was led by leaders of the Xingzhonghui, including Yang Quyun, Sun Yat-sen, Lu Haodong, and Zheng Shiliang. The Xingzhonghui planned to seize Guangzhou in one swift strike, raise the flag designed by Lu Haodong—featuring the Blue Sky and White Sun—over the governor's office of the two Guangdong provinces, and then march northward, passing through Hunan and Hubei, to attack Beijing. However, the plans were leaked, and Lu Haodong was captured and executed by the Qing government, becoming the first martyr of the Republican Revolution. Sun Yat-sen, who narrowly escaped, also was wanted by the Qing authorities. He fled to Japan, then to Hawaii, the United States, and the United Kingdom.