Convention of Peking
October 18, 1860 · Beijing
Qing China signed treaties with Britain, France and Russia after Allied troops took Beijing at the end of the Second Opium War. China gave Kowloon to Britain and large lands in the Far East to Russia.
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- Opium Wars September 4, 1839 – October 24, 1860
Second Opium War October 8, 1856 – October 24, 1860
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