January 24, 1900 (Wednesday)
- At a closed session in Beijing, a council of "Grand Councillors, Grand Secretaries and Presidents of the Board" was convened, and agreed that the Emperor Kwang-hsu should abdicate. P'u Ch'un, age 14, was announced as heir apparent to the throne.
- At the Battle of Spion Kop, Boer troops defeated the British army. General Buller cabled to London that "Gen. Warren's garrison, I am sorry to say, I find this morning, had in the night abandoned Spion Kop."
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