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1 giorno fa · First Opium War. The First Opium War ( Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng ), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the ...
1 giorno fa · In 1858, under the terms of Queen's Proclamation issued by Queen Victoria, the Madras Presidency, along with the rest of British India, came under the direct rule of the British crown. During the period of governor Lord Harris (1854–1859), measures were taken to improve education and increase representation of Indians in the administration.
1 giorno fa · Queen Victoria's immediate family belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; her deceased husband, Prince Albert, was the younger brother of the childless Duke Ernest II. Ernest governed the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , one of the states in the federalised German Empire . [10]
1 giorno fa · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
1 giorno fa · Poland. The Kingdom of Bohemia ( Czech: České království ), [a] sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, [8] [9] [a] was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor of the modern Czech Republic . The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire.
1 giorno fa · Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden attended the final of the yearly Eurovision contest on 11 March in Malmo, Sweden. As the programme began on television, the heir to the Swedish throne welcomed everyone to Sweden and wished the contestants good luck in the final.
