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Timeline of Chinese History from 1550 to 1912 A.D.

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of Chinese History from the late Ming Dynasty to the fall of the Last Qing Emperor in 1912.

1557 Establishment of permanent Portuguese settlement at Macau

1644-1912 Qing Dynasty

1711 British East India Company establishes Guangzhou post

1796 White Lotus Rebellion

1839-1842 First Opium War

1856-1860 Second Opium War

1894-1895 First Sino-Japanese War

1900-1901 Boxer Rebellion

1912 Last Qing Emperor Falls

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