First June 1840

The First Opium War Dates: 1840 to 1842

Qing Dynasty Daoguang twenty years to twenty-two years, is the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the United Kingdom on the British smuggling of opium to the Manchu Qing Dynasty triggered a war, the spark of the war is the British traders in the Chinese Guangdong waters smuggling opium for more than twenty years more than the day of the flourishing, Lin Zexu in 1839 in Guangdong to force the sale of cigarettes, the conflict between China and the United Kingdom escalated one by one, while the war to the defeat of the Chinese and compensation for the cessation of the war ended.

The Treaty of Nanjing, signed during the First Opium War, was the first unequal treaty in modern China, ceding Hong Kong Island to Britain in perpetuity and giving Britain consular jurisdiction, in addition to compensation.

Time of the Second Opium War: 1856 to 1860.

On Chinese soil, Britain and France took advantage of China's Taiping Rebellion to join forces to attack the Qing government, citing the HMS Yarrow incident and the Silliman Cult as reasons for the war, which was also known as the "Yarrow War", the "Anglo-French Expedition to China", or the "Second Opium War". It was also known as the "War of the Yarrow", the "Anglo-French Expedition to China" or the "Second Anglo-Chinese War".

The war was also called the "Second Opium War" because it was seen by the Chinese as a continuation of the First Opium War. In the war, the Tsarist Russia coerced the Qing government to cede more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory, which has not yet been returned, under the pretext of "mediation", thus becoming the biggest winner of the war.