In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the capital Beijing was captured and the Summer Palace sacked by a relatively small Anglo-French coalition force numbering 25, 000.

* 1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.

Looting of the Yuan Ming Yuan by Anglo-French forces in the Second Opium War in 1860.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, Anglo-French forces took control of the Forbidden City and occupied it until the end of the war.

The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.

Looting of the Yuan Ming Yuan by Anglo-French forces in 1860.

In the summer of 1860, a larger Anglo-French force ( 11, 000 British under General James Hope Grant, 6, 700 French under General Cousin-Montauban ) with 173 ships sailed from Hong Kong and captured the port cities of Yantai and Dalian to seal the Bohai Gulf.

The palace complex suffered two major attacks — during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 ( with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time ), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900.

Looting of the Old Summer Palace by Anglo-French forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War.

Wolseley continued to serve on Sir Hope Grant's staff in Oudh, and when Grant was nominated to the command of the British troops in the Anglo-French expedition to China of 1860, accompanied him as the deputy-assistant quartermaster-general.

When the Qing Chinese government was terrified by the advance of the Anglo-French expedition of 1860 and the burning of the Summer Palace in the Second Opium War, he worked on their fears so dexterously that, in the Convention of Peking, he obtained for Russia Outer Manchuria – not only the left bank of the Amur, the original object of the mission, but also a large extent of territory and seacoast south of that river that would become the Russian Maritime Province.

After it was destroyed by an Anglo-French expedition in 1860, the Empress Dowager Cixi diverted money from the Chinese Navy to have it rebuilt.

File: Yuanmingyuan wanfang. jpg | The Old Summer Palace, eight kilometers north of Beijing, was largely destroyed by an Anglo-French expedition in 1860.

severely damaged by fire which Anglo-French allied forces laid in 1860 during the Second Opium War.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the pavilion was destroyed by Anglo-French forces.

Like the rest of the Old Summer Palace, the Xiyang Lou was destroyed in a fire laid by the Anglo-French allied forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War.

Early in 1860 he went with his regiment to China to join the Anglo-French expedition and took part in the capture of the Taku forts and the entry into Peking, returning to South Africa to complete his work in Kaffraria ( brevet-majority ).

With the introduction of a constitution granting civil and political liberties in the Austrian Empire in 1860, the Slovene national movement gained force.

Charles George Gordon, then a 27-year-old captain in the Royal Engineers who later made his name in the Sudan, was part of the 1860 force and wrote:

In January 1860 during the Second Anglo-Chinese War, Napier assumed command of the 2nd division of the expeditionary force under Sir James Hope Grant.

In 1860, Zuo was given command of a force of 5, 000 volunteers, the Xiang Army ( later known as " Chu Army "), and by September of that year, he drove the Taiping rebels out of Hunan and Guangxi provinces, into coastal Zhejiang.

He personally organized and equipped a force of several thousand Unionist " Home Guards ", drawn from the " Wide Awakes "-the Republican marching clubs of the 1860 campaign.

On 1 January 1860, the Guttenburg met with hurricane force winds in thick fog and snow off the Goodwin Sands, which drove the brig onto the South Sand Head where it capsized during the storm.

More than three thousand African American seamen shipped out on whaleships from New Bedford between 1800 and 1860, about 20 % of the entire whaling force.

She was said to have acted as her husband's advisor and to have exerted influence in several matters ; in 1848, she tried to prevent the First Schleswig War, in 1855, she was rumoured to be responsible for the treaty between Sweden, Norway, France and Great Britain, and in 1860, she was, according to the rumours, the active force behind the new law permitting freedom of religion.

The Border Ruffians were pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there.

On October 10, 1860, at Cooper Institute Hall in New York Yancey advised Northerners interested in preserving the Union to " Enlarge your jails and penitentiaries, re-enforce and strengthen your police force, and keep the irrepressible conflict fellows from stealing our negroes …" Yancey cited southern fears that with abolitionists in power, " Emissaries will percolate between master slave as water between the crevices of rocks underground.

By June 1860, Ward had a polyglot force of 100 Westerners, trained in the best small arms ( including Colt revolvers ) and rifles available for purchase in Shanghai.

The Wide Awakes never marched anywhere in the South, in 1860, but they represented the South ’ s greatest fear, an oppressive force bent on marching down to their lands, liberating the slaves and pushing aside their way of life.

It was drafted in 1860 and came into force in colonial India during the British Raj in 1862.

Both refused to swear under the new Constitution of 1860, which was proclaimed in force.

By war ’ s end the Navy had grown from a force numbering 9, 942 in 1860 to one manned by 58, 296 sailors.

With the lack of any major threat to the United States in the post-Civil War years, the U. S. Navy took on the appearance and missions of the force it had been in 1860.

Despite Percy's force having an estimated three to one advantage over the Scots Froissart records 1040 English were captured and 1860 killed whereas 200 Scots were captured and 100 were killed.

King Cotton was a slogan used by southerners ( 1860 – 61 ) to support secession from the United States by arguing cotton exports would make an independent Confederacy economically prosperous, and — more important — would force Great Britain and France to support the Confederacy in the Civil War because their industrial economy depended on textiles derived from cotton.

Between 1860 and 1863, Barrios launched a reorganization of the public finances, promoted the coffee production and silk-elaboration related activities, he to created a professional armed force, and favored non-religious public education.

In 1860, well before state laws required it, New York Life developed the non-forfeiture option, the predecessor to the guaranteed cash values of modern policies, under which a policy remains in force even if a premium payment is missed.

The Ever Victorious Army had its beginnings as a force formed under the command of Frederick Townsend Ward in 1860.

Private investors financed and built transportation systems like sailing ships, paddle steamers ( after 1830 ), steam ships ( after 1860 ), refrigerator ships ( after 1890 ), toll roads ( after 1700 ), canals ( after 1760 ), railroads ( after 1830 ) allowed people, goods, foods and animal crops to be gathered and shipped cheaply and with increasing rapidity over ever increasing distances.

In 1860, having heard about the probable need for cattle at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where some eight thousand Native American Indians had been settled on a reservation, Loving gathered a herd, combined it with that of Charles Goodnight, and began a long drive to the fort.

The first of these, for which during 1860 and 1861 he had gathered materials in Italy, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium, was the first critical edition of the False Decretals.

During this voyage they gathered a significant collection of specimens which were analyzed, in 1860, by Ernest.

This myth was born around 1860 when a small sect led by Juhan Leinberg ( also known as Prophet Maltsvet ) gathered near Tallinn to wait for a white ship to take them away.