1750-1900 Empires in Collision
By: Jasmine Mohr-Fentress
1793: Chinese reject British request for open trade
China believed it was self-sufficient and didn't want outside goods while the British wanted to grow wealthy through trade and spread Christianity.
1798: Napoleon invades Egypts
France hoped to cut off British communications with India.
1830's: Famine & rebellions in Japan
People were mad about taxes and how things were ran.
1838-1842: first opium war
British were ruining China and making profits
1838-1876: Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire
Intended to effectuate a fundamental change of the empire from the old system.
1850-1864: taiping uprising in China
Caused a lot of damage to the power and prestige of the Qing dynasty
1856-1858: second opium war
Led to further opening of China to foreign influence
1853: Admiral Perry arrives in Japan
Caused a battle
1868: Meiji restoration in Japan
Wanted to remove the Tokugawa Shogunate
1894-1895: Sino-Japanese war
Fought between the Qing empire and the empire of Japan over control of Korea
1896: Ethiopian defeat of Italy preserves Ethiopian independence
Battle of Adowa- granted Ethiopia independence
1899-1901: Boxer rebellion in China
Made China agree to pay more than $330 million in reparations
1904-1905: Russo-Japanese war
First all out war of the modern era in which a non European power defeated one of Europes great powers
1908: young Turk takeover in Ottoman Empire
Replaced the ottomans empire from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy
1910: Japan annexes Korea
The Korean emperor handed sovereign power over to the Japanese emperor
1911: Chinese revolution; end of the Qing
Established the republic of china
What's the significance?
Unequal treaties: we're initiated by the armed conflict between Britain and China known as the opium war
Self-straightening movement: institutional reforms were included in the hundred days reform
Commissioner Lin: known for his role in events leading up to the opium wars
"The sick man of Europe": the name was given during an economic difficulty
Young Ottomans: a secret group of ottomans who disagreed with the tanzimat reforms
Sultan Abd al-Hamid ll: last sultan to exert effective autocratic control over the fracturing state
Informal empires: an empire may develop that translate into a degree of influence over a formal colony in the empire
Tokugawa Japan: final period of traditional japan