Fishing Villages & the Qing · event 7 of 7

1839

Commissioner Lin destroys the opium. Lin Zexu confiscates and destroys around 1,000 tonnes of British opium at Humen. Britain declares war.

The Fishing Villages & the Qing era

  1. c. 3000 BC
  2. 214 BC
  3. c. 1050
  4. 1277
  5. 1380
  6. 1662
  7. 1839

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