BhutanandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
1 SHARED EVENTChina

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BTN LEFT · CHN RIGHT

1. 1720

   A Chinese imperial army enters Bhutan

   Qing forces invade and briefly establish control — the first of three outside powers to reach into the valleys within two centuries.

   War & Rupture · from the Bhutan chronicle · Civil Strife and the British Treaties · REFS 1 — Bhutan country profile