Frontier Expansion
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Banner, Green Standard, and garrison settlements: military colonization of the frontiers (1644–1796)
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1638 - 1796
Bleeding Kansas and pre–Civil War border warfare (1854–1861)
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1854 - 1861
British expedition to Tibet and the 1904 Convention of Lhasa (1903–1904)
13entries
1890 - 1910
Buryat responses to Russian expansion: conversion, uprisings, and sedentarization (17th–19th centuries)
12entries
1625 - 1890
California Trail during the Gold Rush (1848–1855)
13entries
1848 - 1855
Cattle drives and the Chisholm Trail (1866–1887)
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1865 - 1887
Comstock Lode silver boom in Nevada (1859–1874)
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1850 - 1878
Construction and opening of the Trans‑Siberian Railway and its impact on Siberian settlement (1891–1916)
13entries
1891 - 1916
Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad (1863–1869)
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1862 - 1869
Creation of Xinjiang Province and late-Qing provincial reforms (1884–1885)
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1755 - 1885
Dawes Act allotment and its effects on Plains tribes (1887–1934)
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1871 - 1934
Defeat of the Kingdom of Tungning and Qing annexation of Taiwan (1683)
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1661 - 1685
Development of the Siberian Route (the overland Moscow–Beijing road) and its stations (17th–19th centuries)
15entries
1597 - 1891
Donner Party and Overland Emigrant Disasters (1846–1847)
12entries
1846 - 1847
Establishment and administrative role of Irkutsk (1661–1850)
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1661 - 1850