Treaty of Nanking
1842 · Event
Ends the First Opium War; cedes Hong Kong Island to Britain and opens treaty ports.
On these timelines: Master, China, The Opium Wars, British Empire
Around 1842
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)