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30 year war Fought in Europe and America
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all foreign trade is confined to Guangzhou
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James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny
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The Qing send troops to Burma
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Adam smith writes the Wealth of Nations
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American Revolution
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The corrupt Heshen becomes influential on the Qing emperor
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French Revolution
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Tousant L'Ouverture leads slave revolt in Sain Domingue
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Napoleon covers his losses in French west indies by selling Louisiana to the U.S for $15,000,000
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The lotus Rebellion ends
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Waterloo invasion of Russia fails
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The brittish seize Shanghai
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Karl Marx communist manifesto
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Mathew Perry opens Japan for trade,
Japan ends tokugawa shogunate of isolation -
Revolt of the nien in china, lad by Zhang Louxing
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Russia secures north Manchuria
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Emancipation Proclamatiom
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Xinjiang becomes a province of Qing China
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Berlin conference, imperialism, African division
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China sends troops into Korea and Japan invades China (first sino-japanese war)
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Britain controls two thirds of Chinese foreign trade
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Japan defeats China and China is forced to cede taiwan and Japanese sovereignity over Korea at the treaty of Shimoneski
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Spanish American war begining of U.S imperialism
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Ruso japanese war (Japan Wins)
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Skikai Yuan is appointed to create a new imperial army wih German instructors
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Brittish exports 275 tons of opium