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| 1856 |
| | An incident aboard the Arrow, flying a British flag, gives the British the pretext to launch the Second Opium War | |
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| 1858 |
| | The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company | |
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| 1858 |
| | The Treaty of Tientsin, ending the Second Opium War, gives European powers new rights to intervene in Chinese affairs | |
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| 1858 |
| | Under the Treaty of Aigun, Russia wins from China the valuable Pacific coastline down to Vladivostok | |
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| 1858 |
| | Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam | |
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| 1860 |
| | British and French forces occupy Beijing and burn the imperial summer palace, at the end of the Second Opium War | |
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| 1863 |
| | British officer Charles Gordon leads untrained auxiliaries against the Taiping rebels in China, becoming known as Chinese Gordon | |
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| 1863 |
| | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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| 1864 |
| | Imperial Chinese troops and Gordon's auxiliaries take Nanjing, the rebel capital, finally bringing to an end the Taiping rebellion | |
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| 1875 |
| | Nikolai Przewalski discovers in western Mongolia a surviving example of the wild breed from which the horse was domesticated | |
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