Timeline of Imperial China

  • Period: to

    Imperial of China

  • First Opium War

    The start of the first opium war.
  • End of the First Opium War

    The First Opium War ended
  • Treaty of Nanjing

    Treaty of Nanjing was created
  • Treaty of Nanjing

    Treaty of Nanjing was supplemented by the british supplementary Treaty of the Bogue
  • Second Opium War

    The start of the second Opium War
  • Second Opium War

    The end of the second Opium War
  • Open-Door Policy

    The Open-Door Policy was created
  • Box-Rebellion

    The Box-Rebellion started
  • End of the Box-Rebellion

    The Box-Rebellion finally ended
  • Invasion of the 8 allied power countries

    The United States, France, Tsarist Russia, Japan, Italy, and Austria forced the Chinese Qing Government to sign the Protocol of 1901.
  • China leads to rebellion

    Dynasty came to an end. China became republic in 1912. This ended the imperial system in Oct. 1911. Then the court abolished the examination system, which had limited political power to elites who passed the elaborate exams on the chinese classics.
  • China becomes republic

    China becomes republic after all those years