Chronology Entries
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| 1 | 1783-1797 |
Daniel Beale ist Kaufmann in Bombay, Guangzhou und Macao und preussischer Konsul in China.
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| 2 | 1783 |
Alexander Duncan sammelt Pflanzen für Joseph Banks in Guangzhou (Guangdong).
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| 3 | 1783-1788 |
Bernardo Aleixo de Lemos e Faria ist Gouverneur von Macao.
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| 4 | 1784 |
Jean-Joseph Ghislain kommt in Guangzhou (Guangdong) an.
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| 5 | 1784 |
Nicolas-Joseph Raux kommt in Guangzhou (Guangdong) an.
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| 6 | 1784 |
Cai Ruoxiang bereitet den Reiseplan durch Hunan vor aber die Missionare und ihre chinesischen Begleiter kommen in Gefangenschaft. Kaiser Qianlong erhebt Anklage gegen ihn und er flieht nach Macao.
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| 7 | 1784 |
Erlass von Edikten für die Christenverfolgung.
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| 8 | 1784 |
Jean-Joseph Ghislain ist als Priester in der Diözese Beijing tätig.
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| 9 | 1784 |
Yang Zhide wird Superior der französischen jesuitischen Mission.
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| 10 | 1784 |
Amerika beginnt Handel mit Guangzhou (Guangdong).
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| 11 | 1784 ? |
Antonio Montucci promoviert in Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Siena.
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| 12 | 1784 |
Chrétien Louis Joseph de Guignes kommt in Guangzhou (Guangdong) an.
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| 13 | 1784 |
Samuel Shaw kommt in Macao an und reist nach Guangzhou (Guangdong).
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| 14 | 1784-1794 |
Samuel Shaw treibt Handel in Guangzhou (Guangdong).
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| 15 | 1784 |
Jean-Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse kann nach einer Verhaftung die Flucht ergreifen.
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| 16 | 1784 |
William Jones tried to induce Huang Yadong to translate Shi jing, but without success.
1784 (10. Dez.) Brief von Whang Atong [Huang Yadong] an William Jones. "Sir, I received the favour of your letter dated 28th March 1784 by Mr. Cox. I remember the pleasure of dining with you in company with Capt. [John] Blake and Sir Joshua Reynolds ; and I shall always remember the kindness of my friends in England. The Chinese book, Shi King, that contains three hundred Poems, with remarks thereon, and the work of Con-fu-tsu, and his grandson, the Tai Ho [Da xue], I beg you will accept ; but to translate the work into English will require a great deal of time ; perhaps three or four years ; and I am so much engaged in business, that I hope you will excuse my not undertaking it. If you wish for any books or other things from Canton, be so good as to let me know, and I will take particular care to obey your orders. Wishing you healt, I am, Sir Your most obedient humble Servant, Whang Atong." |
| 17 | 1784 |
Gründung der Asiatic Society of Bengal durch Sir William Jones.
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| 18 | 1784-1785 |
The 'Empress of China' becomes the first United States ship to trade with China. She left New York on February 22, 1784 and returned to New York on May 11, 1785. As soon as the Americans got rid of British control, they sent the ship 1785 to Guangzhou to bring tea back to North America. The ship was carrying a full loads of goods, 30 tons of ginseng. John Ledyard developed a plan to organize trade between the United States and China. Robert Morris, with other investors, underwrote the voyage of the ship. Ginseng became the main commercial good that the Americans could trade with the Chinese. The voyage had been a remarkable financial success.
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| 19 | 1784-1793 |
Thomas Jefferson bought 1784 some Chinese porcelain in Paris. In 1785 he ordered more Chinnese porcelain wares. 1786 before leaving France, he acquired larger quantities of Chinese export porcelain in Paris. In 1789 he ordered Chinese porcelain from Edward Sowse, a Boston merchant engaging in Chinese trade. In 1793 Jefferson had transported all his Chinese porcelain to Monticello.
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| 20 | 1784 |
Benjamin Franklin : To Sarah Bache. 26 Jan. (1784).
The Founders' Constitution ; vol. 3, article 1, section 9, clause 8. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_9_8s4.html. … Thus among the Chinese, the most ancient, and from long Experience the wisest of Nations, honour does not descend, but ascends. If a man from his Learning, his Wisdom, or his Valour, is promoted by the Emperor to the Rank of Mandarin, his Parents are immediately entitled to all the same Ceremonies of Respect from the People, that are establish'd as due to the Mandarin himself; on the supposition that it must have been owing to the Education, Instruction, and good Example afforded him by his Parents, that he was rendered capable of serving the Publick. This ascending Honour is therefore useful to the State, as it encourages Parents to give their Children a good and virtuous Education. But the descending Honour, to Posterity who could have no Share in obtaining it, is not only groundless and absurd, but often hurtful to that Posterity, since it is apt to make them proud, disdaining to be employ'd in useful Arts, and thence falling into Poverty, and all the Meannesses, Servility, and Wretchedness attending it; which is the present case with much of what is called the Noblesse in Europe… |