The Tiananmen Coup was an attempted coup d'etat by conservative members of the Chinese Imperial military on October 4th, 1908 against the Guangxu Emperor, in which a force of 3,500 soldiers, many of them ranking officers, marched to Tiananmen Square in Peking and attempted to storm the palace and seize the Emperor and his family to prevent Western-style reforms from being enacted, as they had been ten years prior during the Hundred Days' Reform that had ended in a similarly failed coup.