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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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| 1869 |
| | | The most famous of the three-masted tea-clippers, the Cutty Sark is launched at Dumbarton for service to and from China | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The War of the Pacific brings Chile new mineral wealth at the expense of Bolivia and Peru | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Japan's navy destroys the remains of China's fleet at Weihaiwei | |
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| 1895 |
| | | At the end of the Sino-Japanese war China cedes to Japan the island of Taiwan, together with Port Arthur and the Liadong peninsula | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur | |
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| 1899 |
| | | US Secretary of State John Hay circulates a proposal that western powers should adopt an open-to-all trading policy in China | |
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