Information about Timeline of Chinese history
Date Ruling Ruler Events Other people/events entity This period is 2500 BC part of the Sanhuangwudi Chinese mythology 2205 BC Xia Dynasty 1806 BC First records 1523 BC Shang Chinese Dynasty characters 1027 BC 1122 BC 722 BC Spring and 551 BC Autumn Period 481 BC Confucius Zhou Dynasty 479 BC 403 BC 260 BC Battle of Changping 256 BC 255 BC Warring States Period 246 BC Start of 221 BC Qin Dynasty Qin Shi construction of the Huang Di Great Wall 210 BC Burial of the Terracotta Army 207 BC 202 BC Han Gao Zu 195 BC 105 Cai Lun, inventor of paper 106 Han Shangdi Han Dynasty 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion 200 Battle of Guandu 208 Battle of Red Cliff 220 222 Battle of Yi Ling Three Introduction of 250 Kingdoms Sun Quan Buddhism in China 252 265 383 Jin Dynasty Battle of Feishui 420 Southern and Bodhidharma 475 Northern arrives in Dynasties China 589 581 Sui Dynasty 618 627 First Christian missionaries arrive in China: 635 Li Shi Min Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia, building Da Qin Tang Dynasty temple. 649 684 Wu Ze Tian 705 Mass 845 persecution of Buddhism 907 Five Dynasties and Ten 960 Kingdoms Period 1254 Song Dynasty 1260 1271 1273 Battle of Xiangyang 1279 Kublai Battle of Yamen Marco Polo Khan Yuan Dynasty Franciscan 1289 friars begin mission work in China 1294 1323 1368 1371 1403 Construction of 1406 Yongle the Forbidden Zheng He City begins 1424 1435 Ming Dynasty 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress First 1516 Portuguese settlement in Macau Jesuits begin 1582 mission work in China 1644 Shunzhi 1661 1662 First 1680 Kangxi Portuguese governor in Macau 1722 First recorded 1814 Chinese convert to Christianism 1839 First Opium War 1842 Treaty of Nanjing 1851 Taiping Qing Dynasty 1854 Rebellion 1856 Second Opium 1858 War Treaties of Tianjin 1860 Beijing Convention 1884 Franco-Chinese 1885 War 1894 First Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1895 War Shimonoseki 1900 Boxer Rebellion 1908 Pu-yi 1911 Sun Yat Wuchang Sen Uprising Yuan 1914 Shikai 1919 May Fourth Movement Foundation 1921 Communist Party of China 1926 Northern Kuomintang-Communist 1927 Expedition split 1928 1934 Republic of 1935 China Long March 1936 Xian incident Marco Polo Bridge 1937 Incident Battle of Nanjing Battle of Tai er 1938 Second zhuang Sino-Japanese 1940 War Battle of Hundred Regiments The nationalist 1945 government is one of the founding members of the UN 1949 Mainland China 1949 Battle of 1950 Chosin Reservoir Korean War 1951 Occupation of Tibet 1953 1956 Hundred Flowers 1957 campaign 1958 Great Leap Forward 1960 Sino-Soviet split 1962 Sino-Indian War State Council decrees it is acceptable to abbreviate most The PRC detonates 1964 characters its first atomic listed in the bomb Plan for Mao Zedong Character Simplification 1966 The Little Red Book Cultural Opening of the first 1969 Revolution subway line in Beijing: 17 stations First satellite 1970 launch, using Long March rocket The PRC replaces the ROC as a 1971 permanent member of the UN Security Council 1972 Richard Nixon visits China Discovery of 1974 the Terracotta Army Tiananmen 1976 incident Death of Zhou Enlai 1977 Beijing Spring Start of Chinese 1978 People's economic Democracy Wall Republic of reforms Movement China One child policy Hua Guofeng USA and PRC Visit of Deng 1979 establish full Xiaoping to diplomatic relations Washington, D.C. Border-war with Vietnam 1980 First Special Trial of the Gang of Economic Zones Four 1981 Margaret Thatcher in China, signs Sino-British 1984 Hu Yaobang Joint Declaration, to handover of Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997 1987 Zhao Ziyang Tiananmen 1989 Square protests of 1989 First 1991 McDonald's restaurant in Beijing Large PRC 1996 military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait Hong Kong handover, 1997 becomes a Death of Deng Special Xiaoping Jiang administrative Zemin region 1999 Macau handover The PRC passes Japan as the 2000 country with which the USA has the largest trade deficit Accession to Beijing elected to 2001 World Trade hold the 2008 Summer Organization Olympics 2002 16th Party Congress present Hu Jintao SARS outbreak Taiwan 1945 1947 February 28 Incident Kuomintang 1949 retreats to Taiwan Chiang The PRC Kai-Shek replaces the ROC as a 1971 permanent member of the UN Security Council 1975 Republic of China Yen (Continued) Chia-jin 1978 Chiang Ching-Kuo 1988 Large PRC Lee military 1996 Teng-hui maneuvers in Taiwan Strait 2000 Accession to 2001 Chen World Trade Shui-bian Organization present SARS outbreak
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