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| 1817 |
| | | O'Higgins is elected the 'supreme director' of independent Chile after San Martín declines the post | |
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| 1817 |
| | | Bernardo O'Higgins introduces liberal reforms in Chile, reducing the privileges of aristocracy and church | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Thomas Cochrane arrives in Valparaiso to take command of the Chilean navy | |
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| 1823 |
| | | Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile's first liberal reformer, is so unpopular that he has to resign | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Conservative 'bigwigs' and liberal 'novices' emerge as Chile's two main political parties | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Diego Portales begins a 30-year spell as Chile's conservative dictator | |
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| 1839 |
| | | British troops invade China after the Chinese authorities seize and destroy the opium stocks of British merchants in Canton | |
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| 1839 |
| | | British forces capture Hong Kong, which is subsequently ceded to Britain by China at the end of the first Opium War in 1842 | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking | |
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| 1850 |
| | | A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, breaks out in southern China | |
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