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CHRONOLOGICAL  TABLE  OF  EVENTS


DURING  THE   NINETEENTH   CENTURY


IN  INDIA,    JAPAN    AND    CHINA,


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1800.
1801.
1802.
180S.
1804.
1805.
1806.
1807.
India.
Marquess  WeUesley.
Governor  -  General.
Mahratta  war.  East
India  Company
under  charter  of
1793.  Virtually
double  standard,
gold  and  silver.
Mahratta  complica-
tions. Alliance  with
Nizam.
Second  Mahratta  war.
Mahratta  confedera-
tion broken.  Delhi
and  the  Gangetic
Valley  subdued.
British  Empire  formed
on  ruins  of  Mahratta
Empire.  Marquess
WeUesley  departs.
Marquess  Cornwallis
succeeds  and  dies,
Peace  party  retro-
gression threatened.
Sir  George  Barlow,
temporary  Gover
nor-General.  Meet-
ing of  Native  Indian
troops  (Sepoys)  near
Madras.
Earl  of  Minto,  Gover-
nor -  General,  con-
firms the  imperial
policy.
Feudal  system  or  Sho-
gunate  in  the  Toku-
gawa  line.  Ienari
Shogun  at  Yedo.
Mikado(Emperor)  at
Kyoto.
Rule  of  Feudal  chiefs
Daimyos  and  their
retainers,  Samurais.
Roman  Catholic  Chris-
tianity long  stamped
out.
Industrial  art  at  great
height.
Japan.
Exclusiveness  abso-
lutely maintained
commercially  and
politically.
Uneventful.
China.
Chiaching,  Emperor.
Empire  at  its  meri-
dian. Industrial  art
still  very  line,
though  past  its
zenith.
Discovery    of     grave
official  corruption.
Jesuit    missions    still
tolerated.
Influence  of  Man-
darins and  "literati"
immense.
Unsound  system  of
education  prevalent.
Forms  of  adminis-
tration elaborate ;
but  the  reality  most
inefficient.
Uneventful.
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CHRONOLOGICAL  TABLE  OF  EVENTS.
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1808.
1809.
1810.
1811.
1818.
1813.
1814.
1815.
1816.
1817.
1818.
1819.
1831.
India.
