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Event
Event Event Type Source Source Year

1717
Dzungar Mongles invade Tibet and seize political Common News 1998

Lhasa

1720
Emperor King His evicts Dzungars after political Common News 1998

expedition and sets imperial supervision

over country's government

1723
Manchu troops withdrawl from Tibet political Common News 1998

1740
Sonam Topgye of Phola, chief minister political Common News 1998

since 1728, given title of King of Tibet

1745
Capuchin friars booted out of Lhasa. pol/rel Thomas Lowell 1950

1750
Unrest after Phola's death leads to Chinese pol/rel Common News 1998

intervention restoring power to the

Seventeenth Dalai Lama Kesang Gyatso

1774
Warren Hastings, first governor general of political Thomas Lowell 1950

India under British, tried to establish trade

relations

1791
Nepalese Gurkhas invade Tibet, but are political Common News 1998

repelled by Chinese forces

1811
Thomas Manning was first European in political Thomas Lowell 1950

Lhasa since 1745

1855
Chinese stay out of war between Nepal and political Common News 1998

Tibet

1890
Anglo-Chinese Convention fixes border political Common News 1998

between Tibet and Sikkim

1904
British Colonel Younghusband invades political Common News 1998

Tibet and occupies Lhasa. Chinese left out

of Anglo-Tibetan Treaty decision.

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