• Events from the year 1857 in China. Xianfeng Emperor (7th year) Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang (- Jan.), Tan Tingxiang (Jan. - ) Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1857. 1857 (MDCCCLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    in alliances, but both parties rejected the offer.[page needed] In May 1857, the Indian Mutiny became serious, and British troops destined for China were...
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    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign...
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    The Battle of Canton (Chinese: 廣州城戰役) was fought by British and French forces against Qing China on 28–31 December 1857 during the Second Opium War. The...
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    Taiping Rebellion (category 1857 in China)
    war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850...
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    of 1861 Corwin Amendment Battle of Fort Sumter The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy...
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    Commissioners represented the United States in China from 1844 to 1857. Until 1898, China did not have a system in place for the Emperor to accept the Letters...
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    Battle of Escape Creek (category 1857 in China)
    fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the Qing Chinese naval force on 25–27 May 1857 during the Second Opium War. Commodore Charles Elliot's...
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    Battle of Fatshan Creek (category 1857 in China)
    the Cantonese fleet of Qing China on 1 June 1857. Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour sought out and destroyed the Chinese fleet before advancing to the...
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  • religious and social causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (first war of Indian independence). An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was...
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    Battle of Macao Fort (category 1857 in China)
    Macao Fort was fought between British and Chinese forces in the Pearl River, Guangdong, China on 4 January 1857 during the Second Opium War. Macao Fort...
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  • gin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gin is the name of: Gin people, a Việt Kinh group Gin Chow (1857–1933), Chinese immigrant who gained fame in California...
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    China is the world's largest electricity producer, having overtaken the United States in 2011 after rapid growth since the early 1990s. In 2021, China...
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    James F.C. (1857). The Chinese Sugar-Cane: Its History, Mode of Culture, Manufacture of the Sugar, Etc. with Reports of Its Success in Different Portions...
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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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  • Ningpo massacre (category 1857 murders in China)
    California) George Wingrove Cooke (1861). China and lower Bengal: being "The Times" correspondence from China in the years 1857–58 (5 ed.). Routledge, Warne, &...
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    [1865]) Hainan, West China Appias paulina (Cramer, [1777]) A. p. adamsoni (Moore, [1905]) South West China Appias indra (Moore, 1857) A. i. thronion (Fruhstorfer...
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    China trade deficit, and that the Chinese government requires transfer of American technology to China. In response to US trade measures, the Chinese...
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    in.gov. Hyde, James F.C. (1857). The Chinese Sugar-Cane: Its History, Mode of Culture, Manufacture of the Sugar, Etc. with Reports of Its Success in Different...
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    Lue Gim Gong (category 1857 births)
    Lue Gim Gong (Chinese: 刘锦浓; pinyin: Liú Jǐnnóng; August 24, 1857 – June 3, 1925) was a Chinese-American horticulturalist. Known as "The Citrus Wizard"...
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    armies and Royal Navy who took part in the Second Opium War of 1857 to 1860 against China. The medal was designed by William Wyon. The medal's obverse shows...
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    Walter Henry Medhurst (category 1857 deaths)
    Henry Medhurst (29 April 1796 – 24 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School....
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    the Mercantile Bank of Bombay; and later in 1857 was renamed to Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China with London as its headquarters. By 1959,...
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    RMS Unicorn (category Ships built in Scotland)
    caught and broke his leg on a hawser. He died on August 23rd in Hong Kong. In January 1857, the Unicorn could not get insurance, and she was renamed E...
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    was first produced in 1900 by John Kilner & Co., Yorkshire, England. The Kilner Jar was originally invented by John Kilner (1792–1857) and associates, and...
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    Events from the year 1857 in Canada. Monarch — Victoria Parliament — 5th Governor General of the Province of Canada — Edmund Walker Head Colonial Governor...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1857 in Australia. Monarch - Victoria Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales...
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    Anti-Chinese sentiment (also referred to as Sinophobia) is the fear or dislike of China, Chinese people and/or Chinese culture. In the western world,...
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    of China Silk Road Tenduc Luoyang Ptol. Geog. vii. 3. § 6, viii. 27. § 12. Arr. Per. M. Erythr. p. 36. Dyer 1857, p. 1174. Dyer, Thomas H. (1857). "Thinae"...
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