| Date |
Ruling entity |
Head of State |
Events |
Other people/events |
| 1912 |
Republic of China |
Sun Yat Sen |
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| 1913 |
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| Yuan Shikai |
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| 1915 |
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| 1919 |
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May Fourth Movement |
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| 1921 |
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Foundation Communist Party of China |
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| 1926 |
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Northern Expedition |
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| 1927 |
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Kuomintang-Communist split |
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Nanchang Uprising |
| 1928 |
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| 1931 |
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Chinese Soviet Republic |
Mukden Incident |
| 1932 |
Lin Sen |
Japan declares Manchukuo in Manchuria, independent from China |
| 1934 |
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Long March |
| 1935 |
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| 1936 |
Xian incident |
Japan establishes the Mengjiang |
| 1937 |
Second Sino-Japanese War |
Marco Polo Bridge Incident |
| Battle of Nanjing |
| 1938 |
Battle of Tai er zhuang |
| 1940 |
Battle of Hundred Regiments |
| 1943 |
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| Chiang Kai-Shek |
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| 1945 |
The nationalist government is one of the founding members of the UN |
| 1947 |
February 28 Incident |
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| 1949 |
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Kuomintang retreats to Taiwan |
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| 1971 |
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The PRC replaces the ROC as a permanent member of the UN Security Council |
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| 1975 |
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| Yen Chia-jin |
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| 1978 |
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| Chiang Ching-Kuo |
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| 1979 |
Taiwan Relations Act passed by the United States Congress |
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| 1988 |
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| Lee Teng-hui |
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| 1996 |
Large PRC military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait |
ROC Presidential Election 1996 |
| 2000 |
ROC Presidential Election 2000 |
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| Chen Shui-bian |
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| 2001 |
Accession to World Trade Organization |
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| 2003 |
SARS outbreak |
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| 1949 |
People's Republic of China |
Mao Zedong |
Founding of the People's Republic of China |
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| 1950 |
Battle of Chosin Reservoir |
Korean War |
| 1951 |
Occupation of Tibet |
| 1953 |
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| 1956 |
Hundred Flowers campaign |
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| 1957 |
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| 1958 |
Great Leap Forward |
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| 1959 |
Three Years of Natural Disasters |
| 1960 |
| Sino-Soviet split |
| 1961 |
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| 1962 |
Sino-Indian War |
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| 1964 |
State Council decrees it is acceptable to abbreviate most characters listed in the Plan for Character Simplification |
The PRC detonates its first atomic bomb |
| 1966 |
Cultural Revolution |
The Little Red Book |
| 1969 |
Opening of the first subway line in Beijing: 17 stations |
| 1970 |
First satellite launch, using Long March rocket |
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| 1971 |
The PRC replaces the ROC as a permanent member of the UN Security Council |
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| 1972 |
Richard Nixon visits China. Shanghai Communiqu? |
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| 1974 |
Discovery of the Terracotta Army |
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| 1976 |
Tiananmen incident |
Death of Zhou Enlai |
| Hua Guofeng of Deng Xiaoping Period |
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| 1977 |
Beijing Spring |
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| 1978 |
Start of Chinese economic reforms |
Democracy Wall Movement |
| 1979 |
One child policy |
| USA and PRC establish full diplomatic relations |
Visit of Deng Xiaoping to Washington, D.C. |
| Border-war with Vietnam |
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| 1980 |
First Special Economic Zones |
Trial of the Gang of Four |
| 1981 |
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| Hu Yaobang of Deng Xiaoping Period |
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| 1984 |
Margaret Thatcher in China, signs Sino-British Joint Declaration,
to handover of Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997 |
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| 1987 |
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| Zhao Ziyang of Deng Xiaoping Period |
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| 1989 |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 |
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| Jiang Zemin of Deng Xiaoping Period |
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| 1991 |
First McDonald's restaurant in Beijing |
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| 1996 |
Large PRC military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait |
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| 1997 |
Hong Kong handover, becomes a Special administrative region |
Death of Deng Xiaoping |
| 1999 |
Macau handover |
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| 2000 |
The PRC passes Japan as the country with which the USA has the largest
trade deficit |
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| 2001 |
Accession to World Trade Organization |
Beijing elected to hold the 2008 Summer Olympics |
| 2002 |
16th Party Congress |
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| 2003 |
Hu Jintao |
SARS outbreak |
Shenzhou 5, PRC's first manned space mission |
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