British     legation     at
'Yedo  threatened.
China.
Progress   of    Taiping
rebellion.
Taiping  rebels  in  pos-
session of  Yang-tsze
valley.
Taiping  rebels  moving
toward  Peking  are
repelled  near  Tien-
tsin.
Are  circumscribed  in
Yang-tsze  valley.
Yeh,  Viceroy  of  Can-
ton. Affair  of  the
loreha  vessel  "  Ar-
row." Beginning  of
war.  Earl  of  Elgin
despatched  from
Britain  as  Plenipo-
tentiary.
Earl  of  Elgin  arrives
with  a  force  at  Can-
ton. Hostile  action
of  Yeh,  whereon
Canton  bombarded
and  Yeh  taken
prisoner.
Lord  Elgin  proceeds  to
Pechilee  Gulf,  takes
Taku  Forts  at  mouth
of  Peiho  river,  and
proceeds  to  Tientsin.
Treaty  of  Tientsin
with  improved  pro-
visions for  com-
merce. Emperor
agrees  to  receive
British  representa-
tive.
British  representative
comes,butis  stopped
at  the  Taku  Forts.
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CHRONOLOGICAL  TABLE  OF  EVENTS.
Year


1860.
India.
Army  reorganisation.
Financial  system
(Budget)  introduced
after  English  model.
1861.  Development  of  Prot-
estant missionary
enterprise.  System
of  canal  irrigation
extended.
Earl  of  Elgin,  Gover
nor-General.
Japan.
Increasing  discontent
and  violence  among
feudal  retainers.
China.
1868.
1864.
1865.
1867.
Military  operations  on
North-West  Frontier
— p  e  a  c  e  restored.
Death  of  Earl  of  El-
gin.
Sir  John  (afterwards
Lord)  Lawrence  ap-
pointed Governor-
General.  Hostilities
with  Bhutan  and
Dears  annexed.
The  Feudal  attempt  to
close  the  strait  of
Shimonoseki.
Foreign  representa-
tives send  Naval  ex-
pedition to  Shimon-
oseki  Strait.
System  of  public  sani-
tation introduced.
Marked    progress     of
railways.
Sir  John  Lawrence
leaves  India.  The
Earl  of  Mayo,  Gover-
nor-General, meets
Shere  Ali  Ameer  of
Caubul,  and  con-
cludes arrangements
with  Afghanistan.
Kamon-no-Kami,     the
regent,     murdered
fisrt  political  assassi-
nation.
Emperor  at  Kyoto  ac-
cepts the  Commer-
cial treaties  made  by
the  Shogun  at  Yedo.
lemochi,  the  Shoguu,
dies.  End  of  the
Shogunate  or  feudal
system.
