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See also:	Other events of 1839 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1839 in China.

• Daoguang Emperor (19th year)^[1]

• Viceroy of Zhili — Qishan
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Zhong Xiang then Zhou Tianjie then Guiliang then Deng Tingzhen
• Viceroy of Huguang — Zhou Tianjie then Guiliang then Yutai
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Hūsungge
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Deng Tingzhen
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — IIibu then Deng Tingzhen then Guiliang
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Gioro-Baoxing
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Tao Zhu then Lin Zexu then Chen Luan

• Daoguang Emperor appointed scholar-official Lin Zexu to the post of Special Imperial Commissioner with the task of eradicating the opium trade. He bans the trade of opium and writes a letter to Queen Victoria asking her to stop the illegal importation of opium
• early July 1839 - a group of British merchant sailors in Kowloon became intoxicated after consuming rice liqueur. Two of the sailors became agitated with and beat to death Lin Weixi, a villager from nearby Tsim Sha Tsui.^[2][3] They are disciplined by British military court and the British refuse to hand them over to Chinese prosecutors

• Opium War