Burning of the Summer Palace
1860 · Event
Anglo-French forces destroy the Old Summer Palace in Beijing during the Second Opium War.
On these timelines: Master, France, China
Around 1860
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)