ChinaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
1 SHARED EVENTUnited Kingdom

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 · CHN LEFT · GBR RIGHT

1. 1839 CE

   First Opium War and the 'unequal treaties'

   War with Britain over the opium trade ends in Qing defeat and the Treaty of Nanjing (1842), ceding Hong Kong and opening treaty ports, the start of a century of foreign encroachment China calls its century of humiliation.

   Colonisation · from the China chronicle · Empires of Conquest and Restoration: Yuan, Ming, Qing · REFS 1 — China