Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table of the elements based on increasing atomic weight on March 6, 1869, in a presentation to the Russian Chemical Society. While Mendeleev's table was the first to gain some acceptance in the scientific community, it was not the first table of its kind.
In the end, the British sale of opium was used as means for  obtaining more land and trading rights from the Chinese, leading to  the devastation of the Chinese government and economy which is why  The First Opium War will be remembered in history as the time when  China was ultimately betrayed by the British.
After the First Opium War, there saw the result of an upsurge of Chinaâs anti-foreignism and xenophobic sentiments which prevented any meaningful dialogue and direct communications between the British and Chinese. (Jonathan Spence & Immanuel Hsu) The Britishâs intense desire for treaty revisions was thus not addressed.