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
Around 1842
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)