Events
[USA] Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre 1871[USA] 'Model Minority'
myth is coined in the New York Times
by Sociologist William Peterson.[Mexico] Torreón Massacre 1911
(Matanza de chinos de Torreón)[USA] Tacoma Riot of 1885[Baltimore, USA] The First documented Chinese
arrive in the Baltimore Harbor 1785[USA] Geary Act 1892[USA] San Francisco Riot of 1887[USA] Seattle Riot of 1886[USA] Rock Springs Massacre 1885[China] The British East India Company becomes the largest supplier of Opium in China[CHINA] Dutch Sailors establish
an illegal fort on Formosa (Taiwan) 1624[USA] Hells Canyon Massacre 1887[USA] Attack on Squak Valley Chinese Laborers 1885[CHINA] Treaty of Nanking is Signed
Hong Kong is ceded to Great Britain.Periods
[CHINA] First Opium War 1839-42[USA] Chinese Exclusion Act 1882[CHINA] Second Opium War 1856-1860An example of a time span
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