If the map includes China and you try to represent the Taiping Rebellion, you should try to include France as well. I'm thinking specifically of the 1860 Anglo-French expedition and the French Indo-China (even though most of their expansion there didn't come until later).

Also, with China, it would be nearly a crime not to have the Opium Wars and the Sino-Russian conflicts in Manchuria, Mongolia and Central Asia.

Chairman