Macartney Embassy to China
1793 · Event
British mission seeking trade is rebuffed by Qianlong; foreshadows the Opium Wars.
On these timelines: China, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
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- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
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- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
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- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)