Editing Timeline of Chinese history (section)

== 18th century ==
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| 1705 || 4 December || The [[papal legate]] [[Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon]] arrived in the [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] capital Beijing.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1711 || || The [[East India Company|East India Company (EIC)]] established a trading post in [[Guangzhou]].
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| || The ''[[Peiwen Yunfu]]'' was completed.
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| 1715 || 19 March || ''[[Chinese Rites controversy]]'': The pope [[Pope Clement XI]] issued a [[papal bull]] forbidding [[veneration of the dead]] and worship of [[Confucius]] among Chinese converts to [[Catholicism]].
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| 1716 || || The ''[[Kangxi Dictionary]]'' was published.
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| 1720 || || ''[[Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720)|Chinese expedition to Tibet]]'': A [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] expedition expelled the invading forces of the [[Dzungar Khanate]] from [[Ganden Phodrang|Tibet]].
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| 1721 || || ''Chinese Rites controversy'': The [[Kangxi Emperor]] banned Christian missions in China.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1722 || 20 December || The [[Kangxi Emperor]] died.
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| 27 December || The [[Kangxi Emperor]]'s son the [[Yongzheng Emperor]] became [[emperor of China|emperor]] of the [[Qing dynasty]].
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| 1725 || || The ''[[Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China]]'' was completed.
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| 1729 || || [[History of opium in China#Growth of the opium trade|Opium criminalized]] in China.
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| 1732 || || [[Jiang Tingxi]] died.
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| 1735 || 8 October || The [[Yongzheng Emperor]] died.  He was succeeded by his son the [[Qianlong emperor]].
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| 1750 || || The [[Kingdom of France|French]] [[Jesuit]] [[Jean Joseph Marie Amiot]] was sent to China.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1755 || || ''[[Ten Great Campaigns]]'': The ''[[khan (title)|khan]]'' of the [[Dzungar Khanate]] surrendered to invading [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] forces.
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| || The [[Puning Temple (Hebei)|Puning Temple]] was built to commemorate the defeat of the [[Dzungar Khanate]].
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| 1760 || || The [[Canton System]] was established, under which the Chinese merchants operating in the [[Thirteen Factories]] were organized into a guild, the ''[[Cohong]]'', and given an official monopoly.
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| 1771 || || The [[Putuo Zongcheng Temple]] was completed.
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| 1774 || || The [[Wenjin Chamber]] was built.
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| 1780 || || A pagoda was built at [[Fragrant Hills]].
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| 1782 || || The ''[[Complete Library of the Four Treasuries]]'' was completed.
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| 1791 || || ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' was published.
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| 1793 || 14 September || ''[[Macartney Embassy]]'' The [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] ambassador [[George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney]] was introduced to the [[Qianlong Emperor]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 1796 || 9 February || The [[Qianlong Emperor]] abdicated in favor of his son the [[Jiaqing Emperor]].
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| || ''[[White Lotus Rebellion]]'': [[White Lotus Societies|White Lotus]] began an armed rebellion against the [[Qing dynasty]].
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