The Opium Wars
Explore The Opium Wars on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Opium Wars (1839)
- First Opium War (1839)
- Treaty of Nanking (1842)
- 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)
- First Opium War begins (1839)
- The Treaty of Tientsin (1858)
- The Arrow incident (1856)
- The iron steamer Nemesis shreds the war junks (1841)
- Macartney Embassy to China (1793)