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Person1782 – 1850
Daoguang Emperor
Also called: Daoguang
Eighth Qing emperor (r. 1820–1850), who sent Lin Zexu to Canton to stamp out opium but lost the Opium War and signed the Treaty of Nanjing
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In 1839 Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu blockaded the foreign factories at Canton, forced the surrender of more than 20,000 chests of British opium, and destroyed it on the shore at Humen with lime and salt, flushing it into the sea.
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Lin Zexu1785 – 1850Qing official who, as imperial commissioner at Canton, seized and destroyed British opium, setting off the Opium War
- Charles Elliot1801 – 1875
British naval officer and diplomat, Superintendent of Trade at Canton, who surrendered the opium to Lin Zexu and took Hong Kong Island in 1841, only to be recalled for settling for too little
Themes this person appears in
- The Opium Wars1757 – 1864
From the single gate at Canton to the burning of the Old Summer Palace — a century in which a trade in tea, silver and opium became the First and Second Opium Wars, forcing China open and costing it territory