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Events relating to asia
Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro is a master of colour woodcuts, often depicting the courtesan district of Edo
George III sends Lord Macartney on an embassy to the Chinese emperor Qianlong
The British acquire a foothold in the Persian Gulf by making Oman a protectorate
Napoleon, in Syria, orders 3000 captured defenders of Jaffa to be killed by bayonet or drowning to save ammunition
A Sikh maharajah, Ranjit Singh, captures Lahore and makes it his capital in his campaign to unify the Punjab
Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, is killed fighting the British at Seringapatam
Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar
British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta
A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan
The Sikh maharajah of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, conquers Kashmir, beginning a century and a half of Sikh dominance in the region
The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme
The first of the truces is made which will lead to the Trucial States, now known as the United Arab Emirates
Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji
Mameluke power ends with their suppression in Baghdad, following a massacre in Cairo twenty years earlier
English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East
Zanzibar becomes the main place of residence of the sultan of Oman
The British seize the strategic port of Aden and administer it as a province annexed to India
A British army invades Afghanistan and instals a puppet ruler, Shuja Shah, as the Afghan amir
British troops invade China after the Chinese authorities seize and destroy the opium stocks of British merchants in Canton
British forces capture Hong Kong, which is subsequently ceded to Britain by China at the end of the first Opium War in 1842
The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire
The British abandon Kabul, losing most of the garrison force in the withdrawal to India and bringing to an end the first Anglo-Afghan war
The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking
British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud
The first Anglo-Sikh war breaks out between Sikh forces in the Punjab and encroaching forces of Britain's East India Company
