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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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