The Treaty of Tientsin
1858 · Event
At gunpoint on the road to Beijing, China concedes ten more treaty ports, foreign legations in the capital, freedom for missionaries — and, soon after, a legalised opium trade. The Qing court signs intending not to honour it; the attempt to renege brings the allies back with an army in 1860.
On these timelines: The Opium Wars, China, Master, France, United Kingdom (combined)
More from The Opium Wars
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Lin Zexu destroys the opium at Humen (1839)
- Second Opium War (1856)
- Britain takes Hong Kong (1841)
- Burning of the Summer Palace (1860)
- The Convention of Peking (1860)
- The Arrow incident (1856)
- The iron steamer Nemesis shreds the war junks (1841)
Around 1858
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- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Crimean War (1853)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)