A moment in history

Who ruled the world in 1842?

14 thrones active across 14 rulers, a snapshot of the 19th century.

1842 reshaped empires and borders across three continents. In August, the Treaty of Nanking ended the First Opium War, forcing Qing China to cede Hong Kong and open treaty ports to British trade under Queen Victoria government. In North America, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled the disputed Maine border between Britain and the United States. Earlier in the year, the catastrophic British retreat from Kabul in the First Anglo-Afghan War saw an army wiped out on the road out of Afghanistan.