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merchants. Keen-lung, however, received Lord Macartney
most graciously, though not according him all he sought to
obtain for his countrymen.
—
1758. Olive forced the Dutch to in India.
capitulate
1760. — The East India Company finally defeated the
French in India, and destroyed their settlements.
—
1792-1794. Lord near
Macartney passed King-te-chin,
where he states there were 3000 porcelain furnaces.
—
1796-1821. Kea-king period. The son of Keen-lung.
Kebellion after rebellion broke out, in a measure due
great
to the carelessness and incompetency of the emperor. Matters
at Canton had not and the British Government sent
improved,
a second ambassador in the who
person of Lord Amherst,
arrived in in 1816 ; but as he would not the
Peking perform
how-tow (kneeling, touching the ground with the forehead)
before the he had to leave the thus
emperor, palace, giving
fresh to the insolence of the mandarins. A slave to
impetus
his and the servant of died in 1820,
passions caprice, Kea-king
after a of -five
reign twenty years.
1801-1820. — Eggshell is said not to have been made in
Japan before this date.
1821-1851.— Taou-kwang period. This emperor, though
possessed in his early years of considerable energy, no sooner
ascended the throne than the that should have been
powers
directed to the of the were turned to the
pacification empire,
pursuit of pleasure and amusement. Insurrections broke out
which the were unable to while the
imperial generals suppress,
of the British merchants at Canton became so un-
hardships
bearable that, in 1840, the British Government declared war, the
result of which was the ceding of Hong Kong and 6,000,000
dollars. Nor was the remainder of his reign more fortunate, the
and rebellions
empire being completely disorganized frequent.
He died in 1850, and was succeeded by his son, Heen-fung.
1851-1862.—
Heen-fung period. During this reign King-
te-chin was the The and
destroyed by Tai-pings. English
French entered in 1860. This died in 1862,
Peking emperor
succeeded his son, who was five old.
being by only years
1862-1&75 — The Chinese trained
Tung-che period. troops,
by General Gordon, in 1864 took Nanking, and so ended the
rebellion.
Tai-ping —
1875.
Kwang-shiu period.