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Chinese opium smuggling
Created by
Johnathan Carson
⟶ Updated 27 Oct 2019 ⟶
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Events
Lin Zexu called for British merchants to halt opium trade and threatened to behead Hong merchants (1839)
The Treaty of Nanking officially ended the first opium war. The Chinese were forced to concede much to the British & the illicit opium trade (smuggling) continued (1842)
Chinese Navy is unequipped to fight the British (1839-1842)
Lin Zexu is appointed the imperial commissioner of Canton to deal with the opium problem, he sent letters to England, told addicts to reform in a year or be executed, and destroyed smoking equipment. (1800s)
Periods
The First Opium War (1839-1842)