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Convention of Peking
Signing of the treaty by Lord Elgin and Prince Gong
Traditional Chinese北京條約
Simplified Chinese北京条约

The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire in 1860.

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Convention of Peking

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Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China...

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Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory

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of Hong Kong Territory or the Second Convention of Peking, was a lease and unequal treaty signed between Qing China and the United Kingdom in Peking on...

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Amur Annexation

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validity. Two years later, the Second Opium War concluded with the Convention of Peking, which affirmed the previous treaty as well as an additional cession...

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Beijing Treaty

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to: Convention of Peking, three treaties concluded between Qing China and each of Great Britain, France and Russia in 1860. Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking...

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Second Opium War

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Russia, such as the Treaty of Aigun and the Convention of Peking. As a result, China ceded more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory to Russia in...

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Treaty of Nanking

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first Governor of Hong Kong. In 1860, the colony was extended with the addition of the Kowloon peninsula under the Convention of Peking and in 1898, the...

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British Hong Kong

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ground. The area in what is now south of Boundary Street and Stonecutters Island was ceded in the Convention of Peking. In 1898, the British sought to extend...

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Treaty of Aigun

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Russian gains under the Treaty of Aigun was affirmed as part of the 1860 Sino-Russian Convention of Peking. Since the reign of Catherine the Great (1762 –...

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Beijing

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Beijing, alternatively romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, Beijing is the world's most populous national...

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Xianfeng Emperor

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at Jehol, and the Convention of Peking was negotiated in his absence. Xianfeng's health was already in rapid decline in the face of mounting Qing losses...

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Opium Wars

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sack of the Old Summer Palace and the occupation of the Forbidden City palace complex in Beijing, the treaty was confirmed by the Convention of Peking in...

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Kowloon

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of Kowloon north of Boundary Street (New Kowloon) was leased by the British as part of the New Territories under the 1898 Second Convention of Peking...

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Treaty of Tientsin

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were ratified by the Emperor of China in the Convention of Peking in 1860, after the end of the war. The Xianfeng Emperor authorized negotiations for the...

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New Territories

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for 99 years in the Second Convention of Peking (The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory). Upon the expiry of the lease, sovereignty was...

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Treaty of Nerchinsk

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Range lasted until the Amur Annexation via the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 and the Convention of Peking in 1860. It opened markets for Russian goods in China...

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Vladivostok

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Shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Aigun between Qing China and the Russian Empire and affirmed by the Convention of Peking – from which it is also...

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Sham Chun River

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(known also as the Second Convention of Peking). It separates Yuen Long District, North District of Hong Kong, and the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its...

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Peking opera

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Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...

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Ussuri krai

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documented in the Aigun Treaty (1858) and the Convention of Peking (1860). In 1889–1918, Ussuri krai was the location of the Ussuri Cossack Host. It was re-established...

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Noktundo

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in the Convention of Peking without any Korean participation. When the Joseon government found this out in the 1880s, this became a matter of protest...

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Hong Kong

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give up Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island in the Convention of Peking. By the end of this war, Hong Kong had evolved from a transient colonial...

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Convention of Chuenpi

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The Convention of Chuenpi (also "Chuenpee", pinyin: Chuān bí) was a tentative agreement between British Plenipotentiary Charles Elliot and Chinese Imperial...

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Boundary Street

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part of China until it was leased as part of the New Territories to the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years under the Second Convention of Peking). After...

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Ussuri

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of the Sino-Russian border (which is based on the Sino-Russian Convention of Peking of 1860), until it joins the Amur as a tributary to it near Khabarovsk...

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Outer Manchuria

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the Treaty of Aigun (Aigun tiaoyue, 1858) and the (First) Convention of Peking (Beijing tiaoyue, 1860)....The Convention of Peking, one of several unequal...

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Peking Legation Quarter

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The Peking Legation Quarter was the area in Beijing (Peking), China where a number of foreign legations were located between 1861 and 1959. In the Chinese...

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Kowloon Peninsula

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territories of Kowloon in 1860 as part of the Convention of Peking, but geographically it covers the entire Kowloon south of the mountain ranges of Lion Rock...

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Kowloon City District

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the land of Hong Kong in different stages (Convention of Peking, Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory and the demolition of the Kowloon...

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