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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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    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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    Treaty of Aigun and the Convention of Peking. As a result, China ceded more than 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) of territory...
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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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    Amur Annexation (category History of Siberia)
    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 (redirect from Chinese Peking)
    Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital...
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    Qing Empire to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland through Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and Convention of Peking (1860) in perpetuity. Together with...
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    Russian gains under the Treaty of Aigun were affirmed as part of the 1860 Sino-Russian Convention of Peking. Since the reign of Catherine the Great (1762–1796)...
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    estate at Jehol, and the Convention of Peking was negotiated in his absence. His health was already in rapid decline in the face of mounting Qing losses....
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    North Korea–Russia border (category Borders of North Korea)
    state of the Qing dynasty, was established by the Convention of Peking in November 1860. Under the agreement, the Qing dynasty ceded territories east of the...
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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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    the Convention of Peking, adding Kowloon Peninsula to the British crown colony of Hong Kong. Lord Elgin was born in London on 20 July 1811, the son of the...
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    The Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet (Chinese: 中英續訂藏印條約) was a treaty signed in Peking between the Qing dynasty and the British...
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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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    Priamurye Governorate-General (category History of the Russian Far East)
    control of Outer Manchuria with the 1860 Convention of Peking. In the two decades between the Convention of Peking and the establishment of the Governorate-General...
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    Opium Wars (category Military history of the Pacific Ocean)
    Palace and the occupation of the Forbidden City palace complex in Beijing, the treaty was confirmed by the Convention of Peking in 1860.[citation needed]...
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    Sham Chun River (category Rivers of Hong Kong)
    (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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    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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    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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    exploration of the Amur region began, and later, as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Tientsin and the Convention of Peking, the territory of modern...
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    territory of Manchuria and became incorporated into the Russian Empire pursuant to the Treaty of Aigun (1858) and the Convention of Peking (1860). In...
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  • Ussuri krai (category Geography of Primorsky Krai)
    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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    Amur (redirect from History of the Amur)
    as well, by the Convention of Peking (1860). The first permanent bridge across the Amur, the Khabarovsk Bridge with an overall length of 2,590 metres (8...
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    Kowloon (redirect from History of Kowloon)
    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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    to Imperial Russia by the Qing dynasty as part of Russian Manchuria in the 1860 Convention of Peking. During World War II near Vyatskoye was a camp for...
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    Kowloon City district (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2024)
    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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    Bao'an County (category Former counties of China)
    and 1898 under the Treaty of Nanking (Hong Kong Island), Convention of Peking (Kowloon), and Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (New Territories)...
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    Ussuri (category Tributaries of the Amur)
    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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    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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