The
1959 Tibetan Uprising or
1959 Tibetan Rebellion began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in
Lhasa, the capital of
Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the
Communist Party of China since the
Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951. Although the
14th Dalai Lama's flight occurred in 1959, armed conflict between Tibetan rebels and the Chinese army started in 1956 in the
Kham and
Amdo regions, which had been subjected to
socialist reform. The
guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962.