Significant1840 – 1860 · 20 years

Opium Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

China · Hong Kong

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Two wars forcing China open to Western trade, establishing Hong Kong as British colony.

Belligerents3

China
United Kingdom
France

ON THE MAPQing DynastyBritish Empire (1837)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Baliqiao1860

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Opium Wars (1840 – 1860). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/opium-wars · Sources & methodology