First Opium War begins
1839 · Event
Britain attacks Qing China after seizures of opium; trigger of the 'unequal treaties' era.
On these timelines: Master, China
Around 1839
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)