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Events From Around the World
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Napolean defeats the Austrian Army.
Napoleon's army handily defeats the Austrian army, for Russia by 1799 had removed itself from the Second Coalition, at Marengo. End of Second Italian Campaign. -
Top Cotton Producer
The US has becomes the world's biggest cotton producer of raw cotton. -
Emperor Daoguang's Reign
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Qing Dynasty
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Day Lily was born.
"the firfth day of the sixth mnth of the thirs year of Daoguang Emperor's reign. -
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19th Century
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New York passes a state law emancipating slaves
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Mexico abolishes slavery in its Territories
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Unemployment has risen and there has been a shortage of land, creating a peasant unrest
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Lily's Footbinding Begins
Footbinding was custom of applying painfully tight bindings to the feet of young girls to prevent growth. -
Lily's aunt teaches her NuShu
Nüshu is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in Jiangyong Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The women were forbidden formal education for many centuries and developed the Nüshu script in order to communicate with one another. -
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Events from China
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Opium war between Great Britain and China
The First Opium War (1839–42), also known as the Opium War and as the Anglo-Chinese War, was fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing Empire over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice for foreign nationals. -
Taiping Rebellion
(1839-1864) A massive rebellion or civil war in China. Fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Christian millenarian. Approximately twenty million deaths. In the novel it is described as" painful trek up and down the mountain with bodies everywhere." -
Emperor Xianfeng's Reign
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Chinese prospects rush to gold in Australia
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Chicago adopts a plan for the first comprehensive city sewer in the United states
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A ship owned by a Chinese, was searched by the Manchu government for a notorious pirate
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Treaty of Peking
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Emperor Tongzhi's Reign
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Emperor Guangxu's Reign
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China defeated in war with France ; established of French Indo-China
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China defeated by Japan, treaty of Shimonoseki
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Novel begins
