Second Opium War
1856–1860 · Event
Anglo-French force burns the Summer Palace and forces further humiliating treaties on the Qing.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), China, England, France
Around 1856
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)