| A MAP OF TIME |
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| 1793 | Chinese reject British requests for open trade |
| 1798 | Napoleon invades Egypt |
| 1830s | Famine and rebellions in Japan |
| 1838–1842 | First Opium War in China |
| 1839–1876 | Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire |
| 1850–1864 | Taiping Uprising in China |
| 1853 | Admiral Perry arrives in Japan |
| 1856–1858 | Second Opium War in China |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration in Japan |
| 1894–1895 | Japanese war against China |
| 1896 | Ethiopian defeat of Italy preserves Ethiopia’s independence |
| 1898–1901 | Boxer Uprising in China |
| 1904–1905 | Russo-Japanese War |
| 1908 | Young Turk takeover in Ottoman Empire |
| 1910 | Japan annexes Korea |
| 1911–1912 | Chinese revolution; end of Qing dynasty |