Charles Gordon

Charles Gordon was a British Army officer who earned fame as "Chinese Gordon" for his leadership during the Taiping Rebellion. In 1863, he took command of the Ever Victorious Army, a European-officered force of Chinese soldiers. Working alongside Qing imperial commanders, Gordon orchestrated a series of tactical victories across the Yangtze delta, recapturing rebel strongholds and playing a key role in suppressing the rebellion. Honored by the Qing emperor, Gordon became a celebrated figure in Britain, personifying military skill and imperial ambition before his later death at the Siege of Khartoum.

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1833	Birth of Charles Gordon (Period: January 28, 1833, Location: Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom)
1848	Admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Charles Gordon, Age: 14 years old, Period: 1848, Location: Woolwich, England.)
1850	Taiping Rebellion (Age: 16 years old, Period: 1850–1864, Location: Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui Provinces, etc.)
1852	Commissioning into the Royal Engineers (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1852, Location: Woolwich and Chatham, England.)
1853	Crimean War (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1853–1856, Location: Crimean Peninsula, Black Sea, Balkan Peninsula, Caucasus region, etc.)
1854	Siege of Sevastopol (Age: 21 years old, Period: October 1854 – September 1855, Location: Crimean Peninsula, Sevastopol (current Ukraine).)
1855	Service in the Crimean War (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1855 – 1856, Location: Crimean Peninsula, Sevastopol, etc.)
1856	Second Opium War (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1856–1860, Location: Guangzhou, Tianjin, Dagu, Beijing, etc.) Border survey between Russia and the Ottoman Empire (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1856 – 1858, Location: Bessarabia, eastern Anatolia, around Armenia.)
1860	Service in the Second Opium War (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1860, Location: Beijing, Tianjin area, China.)
1862	Battle of Cixi (Age: 29 years old, Period: September 21, 1862 (battles before Gordon commanded the Ever Victorious Army), Location: Cixi, Zhejiang Province, China.)
1863	Command of the Ever Victorious Army and suppression of the Taiping Rebellion (Charles Gordon, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1863 – 1864, Location: Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc., China.) Appointment as commander of the Ever Victorious Army (Charles Gordon, Age: 30 years old, Period: March 1863, Location: Around Shanghai, China.)
1864	Capture of Changzhou (Age: 31 years old, Period: May – June 1864, Location: Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.)
1865	Military engineering work and charitable activities in Gravesend (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1865 – 1871, Location: Gravesend, Kent, England.)
1871	Participation on the European Commission of the Danube (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1871 – 1873, Location: Danube River basin, Europe.)
1873	Service to the Khedive of Egypt and appointment as Governor of the Equatoria (Charles Gordon, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1873 – 1876, Location: Equatoria region (around current South Sudan), Egyptian Sudan.)
1877	Appointment as Governor-General of the Sudan (Charles Gordon, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1877 – 1880, Location: Khartoum, etc., Egyptian Sudan.)
1880	Appointment as private secretary to the Viceroy of India (Charles Gordon, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1880, Location: British India, Calcutta (current Kolkata).)
1881	Mahdist War (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1881 – 1899. Gordon's involvement was mainly 1884 – 1885., Location: Khartoum, Sudan, White Nile and Blue Nile basin, etc.)
1882	Military service in Mauritius (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1882, Location: British Mauritius.)
1884	Re-dispatch to Egyptian Sudan (Age: 50 years old, Period: January – February 1884, Location: Khartoum, Sudan.) Siege of Khartoum (Age: 51 years old, Period: March 1884 – January 26, 1885, Location: Khartoum, Sudan.) Defense and siege of Khartoum (Age: 51 years old, Period: March 1884 – January 1885, Location: Khartoum, Sudan.)
1885	Death of Charles Gordon (Age: 51 years old, Period: Killed in action on January 26, 1885, in Khartoum, Sudan. Aged 51.) Fall of Khartoum and death of Gordon (Age: 51 years old, Period: January 26, 1885, Location: Governor's residence area in Khartoum, Sudan.) Death in action at Khartoum (Age: 51 years old, Period: January 26, 1885, Location: Khartoum, Sudan.)
Unknown	Marriage (Charles Gordon, None, Period: Lifelong single, Location: None.)

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The Qing Dynasty Court	Qianlong Emperor Jiaqing Emperor Daoguang Emperor Xianfeng Emperor Tongzhi Emperor Guangxu Emperor Xuantong Emperor Puyi Empress Dowager Cixi Prince Gong Prince Chun Zaifeng
First Sino-Japanese War	Yamagata Aritomo Oyama Iwao Togo Heihachiro Nogi Maresuke Kodama Gentaro Ito Sukeyuki Kabayama Sukenori Komura Jutaro Katsura Taro Terauchi Masatake Emperor Meiji
East Asian expansion	William Amherst George Macartney Charles Elliot Henry Pottinger Matthew Perry Townsend Harris James Bruce Charles Gordon Robert Hart William Howard Russell

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