Opium Wars
1839–1860* · Event
Britain and other powers force open Chinese trade.
On these timelines: The Opium Wars, China, Master, British Empire
More from The Opium Wars
- Lin Zexu destroys the opium at Humen (1839)
- Britain takes Hong Kong (1841)
- Second Opium War (1856)
- Burning of the Summer Palace (1860)
- The Convention of Peking (1860)
- The Treaty of Tientsin (1858)
- The Arrow incident (1856)
- The iron steamer Nemesis shreds the war junks (1841)
Around 1839
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)