First Opium War begins
1839 · Event
Britain attacks Qing China after seizures of opium; trigger of the 'unequal treaties' era.
On these timelines: Master, British Empire, China, The Opium Wars
Around 1839
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)