• Events from the year 1862 in China. Tongzhi Emperor (1st year) Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi Regent: Prince Gong Viceroy of Zhili — Wenyu Viceroy of Min-Zhe...
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    The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (simplified Chinese: 同治回乱; traditional Chinese: 同治回亂; pinyin: Tóngzhì Huí Luàn, Xiao'erjing:...
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    China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most...
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    Taiping Rebellion (category 1862 in China)
    war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted for 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850...
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  • up China, china, or čhína in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. China may...
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  • Battle of Cixi (category 1862 in China)
    in the Taiping Rebellion fought between the Ever Victorious Army of the Qing dynasty and forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on September 21, 1862...
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  • Church in China List of Catholic missionaries 19th-century Protestant missions in China List of Protestant missionaries in China Christianity in China Jesuit...
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    Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...
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    Keangsoo (Chinese: 江蘇; pinyin: Jiāngsū; lit. 'Jiangsu'), and was a wooden dispatch vessel built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was constructed in 1862 by...
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  • Battle of Shanghai (1861) (category 1862 in China)
    occurred from June 1861 to July 1862. British and French troops used modern artillery on a large scale for the first time in China.[citation needed] Cannon fire...
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    of China. The previous flag of China was the "Yellow Dragon Flag" used by the Qing dynasty — the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history— from 1862 until...
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    known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China. With records...
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    Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, trading as Towngas, is the sole provider of territory-wide town gas in Hong Kong. Founded in 1862, it is one of...
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    Flag of the Qing dynasty (category Flags introduced in 1862)
    Revolution, the Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history. Between 1862 and 1912, the dynasty represented itself with the dragon flag...
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    Islam has been practiced in China since the 7th century CE. There are an estimated 17–25 million Muslims in China, less than 2 percent of the total population...
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    Frederick Townsend Ward (category 1862 deaths)
    Ward (Chinese: 華飛烈; November 29, 1831 – September 22, 1862) was an American sailor and mercenary known for his military service in Imperial China during...
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  • launched in 1862 and sold to China later that year. HMS Africa was purchased by Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector General of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Maritime...
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    El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer...
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    century until 1922. The first civilian French Post Office in Shanghai, China opened in 1862. Initially, the French government used ordinary French postage...
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    power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked upon a series of campaigns with the aim of eradicating prostitution from mainland China by the...
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    2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang...
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    industry in mainland China has been the largest in the world measured by automobile unit production since 2008. As of 2024[update], mainland China is also...
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  • Auguste Léopold Protet (category 1862 deaths)
    Auguste Léopold Protet (Chinese: 卜羅德; 1808 – 1862) was a French Navy admiral. He fought in the Second Opium War, and was killed in the Taiping Rebellion...
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    Court in 1862. The Chinese immigrant workers provided cheap labor and did not use government schools, hospitals, and such because the Chinese migrant...
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    Prince Henry of Prussia (German: Albert Wilhelm Heinrich; 14 August 1862 – 20 April 1929) was a younger brother of German Emperor Wilhelm II and a Prince...
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    anita Hewitson, 1862 A. a. hainana Crowley, 1900 Hainan genus: Ancema Ancema ctesia (Hewitson, 1865) A. c. ctesia (Hewitson, 1865) West China A. c. cakravasti...
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    China Airlines Flight 358 was a Boeing 747-2R7F/SCD freighter that crashed on December 29, 1991, shortly after takeoff from Chiang Kai-shek International...
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    Cao Kun (category 1862 births)
    (simplified Chinese: 曹锟; traditional Chinese: 曹錕; pinyin: Cáo Kūn; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao K'un; courtesy name: Zhongshan (仲珊)) (December 12, 1862 – May 15, 1938)...
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    Robert Hotung (category 1862 births)
    KStJ JP (22 December 1862 – 26 April 1956, Chinese: 何東), also known as Sir Robert Ho Tung, was a businessman and philanthropist in British Hong Kong. Known...
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