Talk to a diplomat about "precedents". And to someone familiar with current politics in China about the policy of cultivating memories of past indignities, which were suffered at the hands of foreign powers.
I’m thinking that quite a few indignities were far more recent. Perhaps you are using the word as a euphemism for thing far worse?
Make it eastern Europe, and you can go all the way back to 1003.
If you're opening the can of European/Near Eastern History, the clear record of foreign power atrocities (vs. mere indignities) goes back quite a few millennia further than that.