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Events relating to asia
British officer Charles Gordon leads untrained auxiliaries against the Taiping rebels in China, becoming known as Chinese Gordon
France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia
Imperial Chinese troops and Gordon's auxiliaries take Nanjing, the rebel capital, finally bringing to an end the Taiping rebellion
Nikolai Przewalski discovers in western Mongolia a surviving example of the wild breed from which the horse was domesticated
Three British armies invade Afghanistan, beginning the second Anglo-Afghan War
Russian composer Alexander Borodin writes In the Steppes of Central Asia as part of the silver jubilee celebrations for Alexander II
The British withdraw from Afghanistan, having achieved nothing in the Second Anglo-Afghan War
The first settlements of European Jews, returning to the promised land, are established in Palestine
Eruption of the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa sends six cubic miles of debris into the atmosphere and causes a huge tsunami
The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao
France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina
Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway
France incorporates Laos within French Indochina
Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China
Japan's navy destroys the remains of China's fleet at Weihaiwei
At the end of the Sino-Japanese war China cedes to Japan the island of Taiwan, together with Port Arthur and the Liadong peninsula
Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur
The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war
The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million
Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising
A stele is found at Susa, in Iran, giving the text of the Code of Hammurabi
The three-year Philippine-American War is brought to an end, and the Philippines become a US colony
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi
A surprise Japanese attack on Russian warships in Port Arthur launches the Russo-Japanese War for influence in the Far East
British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa
