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Beijing Convention

1860, China

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  • second Opium War battle
    In Opium Wars: The second Opium War

    …month the Chinese signed the Beijing Convention, in which they agreed to observe the treaties of Tianjin and also ceded to the British the southern portion of the Kowloon Peninsula adjacent to Hong Kong.

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  • China, c. 1902
    In unequal treaty

    …the Chinese to sign the Beijing Convention, in which they agreed to carry out the initial settlements. Other Western countries again exacted similar agreements. The Chefoo Convention, negotiated at Yantai (Chefoo) with Britain in 1876 (although not ratified by Britain until 1885) following the murder of a British explorer by…

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