Treaty of Nanking
August 29, 1842
Signed on the deck of HMS Cornwallis on the Yangtze, this was the first of the "unequal treaties": China paid an indemnity, opened five treaty ports, and ceded Hong Kong in perpetuity. The Qing's century of humiliation had begun. The foreign powers had learned that gunboats on Chinese rivers produced concessions.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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