1750-1900 Project
By: Wisdom Lynch
1838-1842 First Opium war
Where: China
What: The first of two wars to be fought over the distribution of opium.
Who: Fought between China and Britain.
Why: China tried to suppress the trade of opium due to widespread addiction. Most of the opium was illegally transported by mostly British people from India to China.
1838-1858:Tanizimat ( reorganization) reforms in the Ottoman Empire.
Where: Turkey
What: A series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire that were heavily influenced by European ideas.
Who: The Turkish Empire
Why: It was intended to start a change of the Empire from the old system to a modern state.
1838-1876: Taiping uprising in China
When: 1838-1876
Where: Southern China
What: A series of peasant revolts that later turned into a bloody civil war.
Who: The Qing dynasty of China
Why: Due to famine and government repression which led to peasant revolts.
The second Opium war 1856-1858
The second Opium war
Where: China
What: The second of the two wars that were fought to control the illegal smuggling of opium into China.
Who: China and Britain
Why: Because at the end of the first war the opium smuggling only increased rather than decrease.
1853: Admiral Perry arrives in Japan
1856: Meiji Restoration in Japan
1894-1895 Sino-Japanse war
1896:Ethiopian defeat of italy preserves Ethiopian Independence.
Boxer rebellion in China
Where: China
What: A Chinese organization called the society of the righteous and harmonious fists led an uprising.
Who: The society of the righteous and harmonious fists
Why: Due to not wanting any Western or Japanese influences in China
1904-1905:Russo-Japanese war
Where:Russia\Japan
What: A war between Russia and Japan
Who:Russia and Japan
Why:Due to the rivalry between Russia and Japan over dominance of Koreq
1908: YoungTurk takeover in Ottoman Empire
Where: Ottoman Empire/ Turkey
What: A political reform movement in the early 20th century
Who:the Ottoman Empire
Why: In fvor of replacing the absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy