Treaty of Giyanti divides Kingdom of Mataram between Yogakarta and Surakarta

Lord Macartney arrives in the Chinese court

Dutch East India Company is liquidated

Stamford Raffles takes Singapore

Paderi War in Sumatra

Treaty of London

Java War

First Opium War between Britain and China

Taiping Rebellion in China

United States forces Japan to open to trade

Indian Rebellion against British rule is suppressed

British and French forces destroy the Summer Palace in Beijing

Meiji Restoration in Japan

Liberal policy is introduced in the Dutch East Indies

Indian National Congress is founded

Sino-Japanese War

Boxer Rebellion in China

Anglo-Japanese alliance

Russo-Japanese War

Chinese Revolution

Death of the Meiji Emperor