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China

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  • 125,000 BCE

    First men appear in Dao County

  • 611 BCE

    The Four Gates Pagoda was completed.

  • 220 BCE

    Construction began on the Great Wall of China

  • 210 BCE

    Terracotta Army building was finished

  • 200 BCE

    First Buddhist monastery constructed

  • 1225

    Conquest of Mongoles

  • Period: 1403 to 1424

    The reign of the Yongle emperor is marked by 5 expeditions against the Mongols to the north

  • 1406

    Construction of forbidden city

  • 1517

    The first European people arrive to China

  • White Lotus Rebellion

    Armed rebellion caused by wanting to reestablish the Ming Dynasty

  • The Bible was first published in Chinese

  • The Daoguang Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.

  • Emperor Daoguang sends a commission to stop the trafficking of opium

  • Period: to

    Opium War between Great Britain and China

  • Period: to

    Treaty Ports

    China gave up Hong Kong to Britain as a colony

  • Treaty of Nanking

    Great Britain acquired Hong Kong

  • Treaty of Wanghia

    Stated that United States was granted most favoured nation status and extraterritoriality was granted to its citizens resident in China.

  • Taiping rebellion

  • Third plague pandemic

    A plague pandemic began in Yunnan which killed hundreds of thousand people in China

  • Second Opium War

  • Treaty of Aigun,

    The Qing dynasty gave to Russia the land north of the Amur River.

  • Treaty of Tianjin

    Diverse documents signed to end the first opium war

  • Convention of Peking

    A treaty signed to put an end to the Opium War
  • Period: to

    Self-Strengthening Movement

    Institutional reforms started by the events of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers.

  • Nian Rebellion

    The last of the rebel armies was destroyed.

  • Guangxu Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty,

  • First Sino-Japanese War

    War was officially declared between Japan and the Qing dynasty.

  • Treaty of Shimonoseki

    The Qing dynasty signed it recognizing the independence of Joseon

  • The boxer rebellion

  • The Guangxu Emperor was removed from the imperial palace in a coup organized by the Viceroy of Zhili.