1847 in China

1847
in
China

Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:Other events of 1847
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Events from the year 1847 in China.

Incumbents

Viceroys

Events

  • March — Treaty of Canton, the first treaty made between Sweden-Norway and the Chinese Empire[1]
  • August 27 — Hong Xiuquan returned to the Thistle Mountains from Hua County, the God Worshipers numbered over 2,000.[2][3] At this time, most God Worshippers were peasants and miners.[4]
  • The Presbyterian Church of England founded and resolved to establish a mission in China. The Rev. William Chalmers Burns went first to Hong Kong and then to Amoy
  • American Methodist Episcopal Society (North) entered the field of China

Births

  • Au Fung-Chi (1847–1914), the secretary of the Hong Kong Department of Chinese Affairs

References

  1. Liljevalch, Carl Fredrik. (1848). Chinas handel: industri och Statsforfattning, p. 22., p. 22, at Google Books
  2. Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son 95 (1996)
  3. Franz H. Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History 31 (1966)
  4. Franz H. Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History 31 (1966)
  • Martin, Robert Montgomery. China, Political, Commercial, and Social, 2 vols. 1847.
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