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7 nov 1864 - Global Trade Tycoon David Sassoon Dies

Description:

Sassoon initially owned a counting house and a carpet warehouse, but soon began trading in everything he could, including, most profitably, opium. When China’s emperor tried to outlaw the drug, which cut a wide swathe of destruction through the population of the country’s coastal regions, the British responded with war. The result was the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, which earned the United Kingdom a free hand in selling opium in China.

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Date:

7 nov 1864
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~ Il y a 161 ans