First Opium War
1839–1842 · Event
Britain defeats Qing China over the opium trade; cedes Hong Kong and opens treaty ports; opens century of "unequal treaties".
On these timelines: Master, China, United Kingdom (combined), England
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)