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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.

Together with Ernst Augustus, she greatly improved the Summer Palace of Herrenhausen and she was the guiding spirit in the creation of the gardens ( which still exist ) surrounding the palace, where she died.

* October 18 – 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War.

The Fenghuang ( Chinese Phoenix ) at the Summer Palace, Beijing, China

The Qing Court at the time was divided between progressives under the leadership of the Guangxu Emperor, and conservatives under the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had temporarily retreated to the Summer Palace as a place of " retirement ".

These characterizations called to mind the sacking of the Summer Palace in 1860.

His first watercolour A View of the Archbishop's Palace, Lambeth was accepted for the Summer Exhibition of 1790 when Turner was only 15.

Ruins of the " Western style " Xiyanglou complex in the Old Summer Palace, burnt down by Anglo-French forces.

The Belvedere of the God of Literature, in the New Summer Palace, just before its destruction by Anglo-French troops.

Xianfeng first fled to the Chengde Summer Palace and then to Rehe Province.

Anglo-French troops in Beijing began looting the Summer Palace ( Yihe Yuan ) and Old Summer Palace ( Yuan Ming Yuan ) immediately ( as it was full of valuable artwork ).

The defeat of the Imperial army by a relatively small Anglo-French military force ( outnumbered at least 10 to 1 by the Qing army ) coupled with the flight ( and subsequent death ) of the Emperor and the burning of the Summer Palace was a shocking blow to the once powerful Qing Dynasty.

* Erik Ringmar, Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Emperor's Summer Palace

* The 2009 auction ( for US $ 36 million ) of two imperial bronze zodiac sculptures collected by Yves Saint Laurent, looted in 1860 from the Old Summer Palace of Beijing by French and British forces at the close of the Second Opium War caused controversy.

He was present at the occupation of Beijing and destruction of the Summer Palace.

* Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court Palace: The oldest surviving real tennis court in England, built on the site of an even older ( 1528 ) court in the 1620s, where the game can be watched by the general public during British Summer Time.

Mural of Guan Yu's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles ( 千里走單騎 ) in the Summer Palace

" Madame White Snake " Picture on long veranda in the Summer Palace, Beijing, China.

The Summer Palace () is a palace in Beijing, China.

In the Summer Palace, one finds a variety of palaces, gardens, and other classical-style architectural structures.

* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

It is governed by the World Archery Federation ( WA ), and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.

It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0. 77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle ( the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega ).

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions and also many international sport tournaments.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

107, Summer 1997, pp. 38 – 53, which argues that cultural imperialism is a positive thing.

6, Spring / Summer 2001, which argues that the idea of media imperialism is outdated.

Summer is hot and humid throughout the state, with average highs in New London of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ) and 87 ° F ( 31 ° C ) in Windsor Locks.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

The Ethnologue is published by SIL International ( formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics ), a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies numerous minority languages, to facilitate language development and to work with the speakers of such language communities to translate portions of the Bible in their language.

In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time only during winter ; during summer British Summer Time is used.

In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time ( BST ); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time ( IST )— officially changing to GMT in winter.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

Henry Moseley had been a very promising schoolboy at Summer Fields School ( where one of the four ' leagues ' is named after him ), and he was awarded a King's scholarship to attend Eton College.

* Summer school is under way for many students.

In the UK and other countries that use " Summer Time " the actual exact time of the midpoint in a common year is at 1: 00 p. m. this is when 182 days and 12 hours have elapsed and there are 182 days and 12 hours remaining.

This is due to Summer Time having advanced the time by one hour.