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Treaty of Nanking

Signed aboard HMS Cornwallis, the treaty ended the First Opium War on British terms: Hong Kong island was ceded, five ports including Canton and Shanghai were opened to British trade and residence, the Cohong monopoly was abolished, tariffs were fixed by agreement, and an indemnity of twenty-one million silver dollars was imposed, of which six million covered the opium Lin Zexu had destroyed. Opium itself was not mentioned in the text. The Canton System ended, and the tea trade began shifting north to Shanghai.

Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.

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Evidence

Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source.

Recorded on Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou

  1. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  2. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  3. Silver ore is registered at the Cerro Rico of Potosí
  4. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
  5. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  6. Qing trade confined to Canton
  7. Boston Tea Party
  8. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  9. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  10. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  11. The Opium Wars
  12. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  13. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
  14. Treaty of Nanking
  15. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China

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