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Hace 1 día · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
- Timeline of London (19th century)
The following is a timeline of the history of London in the...
- Timeline of London (19th century)
Hace 5 días · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a ...
19 de abr. de 2024 · Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
16 de abr. de 2024 · 1839 - 1842. Location: Guangzhou. China. Jiangsu. Guangdong. Beijing. Participants: China. Qing dynasty. France. United Kingdom. Major Events: Treaty of Nanjing. First Opium War. Arrow War. Key People: Charles-Guillaume-Marie-Apollinaire-Antoine Cousin-Montauban, count de Palikao. Charles George Gordon. Sir Hugh Gough. Lin Zexu.
- What were the Opium Wars?The Opium Wars were two conflicts fought in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ru...
- What caused the Opium Wars?The first Opium War was the result of China’s attempt to suppress the illegal opium trade, which had led to widespread addiction in China and was c...
- Who were the main combatants in the Opium Wars?The first Opium War was fought between China and Great Britain. The second Opium War, also known as the Arrow War or the Anglo-French War in China,...
- Who won the Opium Wars?Not China. Great Britain won the first Opium War. The opium trade continued, and China had to compensate Great Britain for its losses, give Hong Ko...
- What were the long-term consequences of the Opium Wars?The Opium Wars marked the start of the era of unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers (primarily Great Britain, France, Germa...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Date accessed: 1 May, 2024. At a time when the study of 19th-century history in general is becoming an increasingly marginal pursuit, writing a synthetic volume about Spain—which has never enjoyed much scholarly attention—may seem optimistic.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland ...
