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1827 – The Canton Register, an English-language newspaper, begins publication. [9] [10] 1832 – Jardine, Matheson and Co. in business. 1834 – Wetmore & Co. in business. [11] 1835 – The Canton Press, an English-language newspaper, begins publication. [9] 1840 – Augustine Heard and Company in business. [11] 1841 February 27: Battle of ...
[19] [20] Historically, Canton was also used for the province itself, [21] but often either specified as a province (e.g. Canton Province), [22] or written as Kwangtung in the Wade–Giles system and now most commonly as Guangdong in Pinyin. [23] The local people of the city of Guangzhou (Canton) and their language are called Cantonese in English.
The Canton System (1757–1842; Chinese: 一口通商; pinyin: Yīkǒu tōngshāng; Jyutping: jat1 hau2 tung1 soeng1, lit. "Single [port] trading relations") served as a means for Qing China to control trade with the West within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton (now Guangzhou ).
Guangzhou, [a] previously romanized as Canton [6] or Kwangchow, [7] is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. [8] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road.
The Thirteen Factories, also known as the Canton Factories, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou (Canton) in the Qing Empire from c. 1684 to 1856 around modern day Xiguan, in Guangzhou's Liwan District. These warehouses and stores were the principal and sole legal site of most Western trade with China from 1757 to ...
The Battle of Canton (Chinese: 廣州城戰役) was fought by British and French forces against Qing China on 28–31 December 1857 during the Second Opium War.The British High Commissioner, Lord Elgin, was keen to take the city of Canton as a demonstration of power and to capture Chinese official Ye Mingchen, who had resisted British attempts to implement the 1842 Treaty of Nanking.
Guangzhou: 4-211 Sacred Heart Cathedral of Guangzhou: Guangzhou Shengxin dajiao tang 广州圣心大教堂: Guangzhou: 4-215 Naozhou Lighthouse: Naozhou dengta 硇州灯塔: Zhanjiang: 4-218 Former Seat of the Leader of the Military Government in Guangzhou: Guangzhou dayuanshuai fu jiuzhi 广州大元帅府旧址: Guangzhou: 4-232 Shixia Site ...
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.