Self-Strengthening Movement
1861–1895 · Event
Qing officials promote selective adoption of Western military and industrial technology; insufficient to reverse decline.
On these timelines: Master, China, The Taiping Rebellion
Around 1861
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Crimean War (1853)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)