War

First Opium War

18 Mar 1839 – 29 Aug 1842 · 35.84° N, 103.45° E

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When
18 Mar 1839 – 29 Aug 1842
Kind
War
Coordinates
35.84° N, 103.45° E
Description
war between Great Britain and China in the 19th century

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First Opium War

1839–1842 war between the United Kingdom and China

The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and Qing China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the opium trade by seizing private opium stocks from mainly British merchants at Guangzhou and threatening to impose the death penalty for future offenders.

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