Tag: Nanking

29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking

The First Opium War formally ended when Britain and China signed the Treaty of Nanking, the first of the ‘unequal treaties’.

On the 13^th December 1937, the Nanking Massacre began at the end of the Battle of Nanking – part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.