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• Second Opium War
  The Second Opium War, also known as the Arrow War, was a war fought between the [[Qing Empire]] and a number of Western powers from [[18 Before the end of the war, British and French armies would invade [[Beijing]], and infamously sacked
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• Opium
  [[File:Opium-ball.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A replica opium ball on display at the Museum of the Chinese in America (MoCA) in New York ...into China in the 18th-19th centuries, eventually resulting in the [[Opium War]], which contributed, in turn, dramatically, to the decline and eventual co
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• Lin Zexu
  ...|Statue of Commissioner Lin in New York Chinatown, labeled "Pioneer in the War Against Drugs."]] ...are generally said to have played a major role in spurring the outbreak of war with Britain.
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• 1840
  ...Company]] arrive at [[Nagasaki]] and inform of the outbreak of the [[Opium War]]. *The [[Opium War]] begins in China (~1842).
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• Second Opium War
  The Second Opium War, also known as the Arrow War, was a war fought between the [[Qing Empire]] and a number of Western powers from [[18 Before the end of the war, British and French armies would invade [[Beijing]], and infamously sacked
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• James Stirling
  ...me seeking similar concessions, and in light of the outcome of the [[Opium War]] a decade earlier were fearful of the possible repercussions of resisting
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• Treaty of Nanjing
  ...marked the end of the [[First Opium War]]. It later came to be seen as the first, and most prominent, of the [[Unequal Treaties]], forcing upon China a subo
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• 1856
  *The [[Second Opium War]] breaks out (ends [[1860]]).
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• Guangzhou
  ...ng the Chinese regulations obnoxiously restrictive, the British send their first formal diplomatic embassy in [[1793]], headed by [[George Lord Macartney]], ...[[Lin Zexu]], to stem the flow of opium led to the outbreak of the [[Opium War]] ([[1840]]-[[1842]]), in which China suffered a humiliating defeat, and wa
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• 1842
  ...] is signed between China and the United Kingdom, ending the [[First Opium War]].
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• Fusetsugaki
  The first ''fûsetsugaki'' were prepared by the Dutch in [[1641]]; from [[1644]] onwa ...ials were informed by Dutch ''fûsetsugaki'' of the outbreak of the [[Opium War]] almost as it happened. Market developments, such as the supply and price
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• 1861
  *1861/12/2 (Jan 1, 1862) The first official [[Tokugawa shogunate]] embassy to Europe, led by [[Takeuchi Yasuno ...llion]] and Anglo-French invasion of Beijing as part of the [[Second Opium War]].
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• 1858
  *1858/4/25 (June 6) [[Joseph Heco]] (Hamada Hikozô<!--浜田彦蔵-->) becomes the first Japanese to naturalize as a US citizen. ...], marking the end of the first stage of the [[Second Opium War]], but the war continues until [[1860]].
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• Anglo-Japanese Convention of 1854
  ...earlier in the year, and were now actively opposing Russia in the Crimean War. Stirling, commander of the Royal Navy's China Squadron, was dispatched to ...ar concessions, and most especially in light of the outcome of the [[Opium War]], were fearful of the repercussions of resisting British demands. These pr
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• Giuseppe Castiglione
  ...[[1860]], however, by British and French forces during the [[Second Opium War]].)
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• Sino-Japanese War
  ...out international war fought by the Meiji state. Like the [[Russo-Japanese War]] of ten years later, it was fought chiefly in Korea, and over which countr ...ition of [[Taiwan]] as a colony as part of the treaty agreement ending the war is similarly often cited as marking the beginning of Japan's imperialist/co
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• 1849
  *Bernard Bettelheim completes the first English-[[Ryukyuan languages|Ryukyuan]] dictionary. ...e orders the strengthening of coastal defenses, in the wake of the [[Opium War]] and anticipating the threat of Western powers seeking to "open" the count
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• British East India Company
  ...like the Dutch East India Company, the EIC was empowered to “make Peace or War with any Prince or People that are not Christians, in any Places of their T ...ese and British Courts, and the eventual outbreak of the so-called [[Opium War]] in [[1840]].
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• Wanyan Chonghou
  ...n]], in the [[Second Opium War]] which was then already underway. Once the war ended, in the wake of China's defeat, Chonghou was appointed superintendent ...nds for justice, and thus avoiding further diplomatic problems or outright war. Chonghou, apologizing to his superiors for his failure to properly address
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• Fuzhou
  ...) activity. This caused it to be a target of attack during the Sino-French War ([[1884]]-[[1885]]), but the city, its trade, and its foreign population, r ...eved, however, to have already been in operation at that time, having been first established around 1430-1440. Related sites included the ''[[Huitong-guan]]
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• 1860
  ===[[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|First Japanese Embassy to the United States]]=== *1860/1/18 (Feb 9) The members of the first embassy to the US, 170 Japanese and some number of American escorts, depart
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