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<strong>Timeline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong> <strong>history</strong> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
<strong>Timeline</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong> <strong>history</strong><br />
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
The following is a timeline <strong>of</strong> the History <strong>of</strong> China:<br />
For a summary table <strong>of</strong> the Dynasties in <strong>Chinese</strong> <strong>history</strong> and their dates, see Dynasties in <strong>Chinese</strong> <strong>history</strong>.<br />
Contents<br />
� 1 Ancient China<br />
� 2 Imperial China<br />
� 3 Modern China<br />
� 4 See also<br />
� 5 External links<br />
Ancient China<br />
Note: dates prior to 841 BC are provisional and subject to dispute.<br />
Date Ruling entity King Events<br />
2500<br />
BC<br />
2205<br />
BC<br />
1806<br />
BC<br />
1523<br />
BC<br />
1027<br />
BC<br />
1122<br />
BC<br />
Sanhuangwudi<br />
Xia Dynasty<br />
Shang<br />
Dynasty<br />
Zhou Dynasty<br />
King Wu <strong>of</strong><br />
Zhou<br />
This period is part <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Chinese</strong><br />
mythology<br />
First records <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong> characters<br />
781 BC<br />
You<br />
771 BC End <strong>of</strong> Western Zhou<br />
770 BC<br />
722 BC<br />
720 BC<br />
619 BC<br />
Ping<br />
Beginning <strong>of</strong> Eastern Zhou<br />
Spring and Autumn Period<br />
Other<br />
people/events<br />
632 BC Xiang<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Chengpu<br />
651 BC<br />
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551 BC Lao Zi<br />
551 BC<br />
481 BC<br />
479 BC<br />
475 BC<br />
314 BC<br />
260 BC<br />
256 BC<br />
Imperial China<br />
Nan<br />
Date Ruling entity Emperor Events<br />
255<br />
BC<br />
246<br />
BC<br />
221<br />
BC<br />
210<br />
BC<br />
209<br />
BC<br />
207<br />
BC<br />
206<br />
BC<br />
205<br />
BC<br />
202<br />
BC<br />
195<br />
BC<br />
6 CE<br />
9<br />
Qin Dynasty<br />
Han Dynasty<br />
(Western<br />
Han)<br />
Qin Shi<br />
Huang<br />
Qin Er Shi<br />
Ziying<br />
Han Gao Zu<br />
Ruzi<br />
Warring States Period<br />
Warring States Period<br />
Unification <strong>of</strong> China<br />
Burial <strong>of</strong> the Terracotta Army<br />
Chu-Han contention<br />
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Battle <strong>of</strong><br />
Changping<br />
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Other<br />
people/events<br />
Start <strong>of</strong><br />
construction <strong>of</strong><br />
the Great Wall<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Jingxing<br />
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23<br />
25<br />
88<br />
Xin Dynasty Wang Mang<br />
Gengshi<br />
105 He Cai Lun invents paper<br />
106<br />
168<br />
Shang<br />
184<br />
Han Dynasty<br />
(Eastern Han)<br />
Ling Yellow Turban Rebellion<br />
189<br />
King <strong>of</strong><br />
Hongnong<br />
191 Battle <strong>of</strong> Jieqiao<br />
200 Battle <strong>of</strong> Guandu<br />
Xian<br />
208 Battle <strong>of</strong> Changban<br />
220<br />
222<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Yiling<br />
225<br />
230<br />
Three<br />
Cao Pi<br />
(Wei)<br />
Liu Bei<br />
Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign<br />
234<br />
Kingdoms (Shu)<br />
Sun Quan<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Wuzhang Plain<br />
250 (Wu) Introduction <strong>of</strong> Buddhism in China<br />
252<br />
265<br />
274<br />
290<br />
291<br />
304<br />
306<br />
307<br />
Jin Dynasty<br />
Wu<br />
Hui<br />
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Battle <strong>of</strong> Red<br />
Cliffs<br />
War <strong>of</strong> the Eight<br />
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372<br />
383<br />
396<br />
419<br />
420<br />
Xiaowu<br />
Gong<br />
Sixteen Kingdoms<br />
(Han Zhao, Later Zhao, Cheng Han, Former<br />
Liang, Later Liang, Northern Liang, Western<br />
Liáng, Southern Liang, Former Yan, Later Yan,<br />
Northern Yan, Southern Yan, Former Qin,<br />
Later Qin, Western Qin, Xia)<br />
439 Southern and<br />
Northern<br />
475 Dynasties<br />
Bodhidharma arrives in China<br />
589<br />
581<br />
618<br />
627<br />
635<br />
649<br />
650<br />
684<br />
705<br />
712<br />
Sui Dynasty<br />
Tang Dynasty<br />
Li Shi Min<br />
Wu Ze Tian<br />
751 Xuanzong Battle <strong>of</strong> Talas<br />
756<br />
763<br />
First Christian missionaries arrive in China:<br />
Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia,<br />
building Daqin Pagoda.<br />
The Records <strong>of</strong> the Tang Dynasty describes a<br />
landmark visit to China by Saad ibn Abi<br />
Waqqas (ra), one <strong>of</strong> the companions <strong>of</strong> Prophet<br />
Muhammad, in 650 C.E. This event is<br />
considered to be the birth <strong>of</strong> Islam in China.<br />
An Lushan Rebellion<br />
845 Mass persecution <strong>of</strong> Buddhism<br />
907<br />
960<br />
Five<br />
Dynasties<br />
and Ten<br />
Kingdoms<br />
End <strong>of</strong> Northern Song / Beginning <strong>of</strong> Southern<br />
Song<br />
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Battle <strong>of</strong> Fei<br />
River<br />
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1127<br />
Jingkang Incident: Sacking <strong>of</strong> Kaifeng by the<br />
Jurchens, capturing a pair <strong>of</strong> father-son<br />
emperors.<br />
1214<br />
Song Dynasty<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Beijing<br />
1255<br />
1260<br />
1271<br />
1273<br />
Kublai<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Xiangyang<br />
1279<br />
Khan<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Yamen<br />
1289<br />
1294<br />
Yuan<br />
Dynasty<br />
Franciscan friars begin mission work in China<br />
1295<br />
1368<br />
1398<br />
1399<br />
1402<br />
1403<br />
Ming<br />
Dynasty<br />
Hongwu<br />
Jianwen<br />
1405<br />
Yongle<br />
1406 Construction <strong>of</strong> the Forbidden City begins<br />
1424<br />
1425<br />
1426<br />
1433<br />
1435<br />
Hongxi<br />
Xuande<br />
1449 Battle <strong>of</strong> Tumu Fortress<br />
1506<br />
1516 Zhengde First Portuguese settlement in Macau<br />
1521<br />
1522<br />
1556<br />
Jiajing<br />
Earthquake in Shaanxi and Gansu. 850,000<br />
casualties<br />
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Voyages <strong>of</strong><br />
Marco Polo<br />
Voyages <strong>of</strong><br />
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1566<br />
1573<br />
1582 Jesuits begin mission work in China<br />
1616 Wanli Nurhaci founds the Qing Dynasty in Manchuria<br />
1619 Battle <strong>of</strong> Sarhu<br />
1620<br />
Taichang<br />
Tianqi<br />
1627 First Manchu invasion <strong>of</strong> Korea<br />
1637 Chongzhen Second Manchu invasion <strong>of</strong> Korea<br />
1644<br />
1661<br />
1662<br />
1674<br />
1680<br />
Shunzhi<br />
Revolt <strong>of</strong> the Three Feudatories<br />
1683<br />
Kangxi<br />
1689 Treaty <strong>of</strong> Nerchinsk<br />
1711<br />
The British East India Company establishes a<br />
trading post in Guangzhou<br />
1716 Publication <strong>of</strong> the Kangxi dictionary<br />
1722<br />
1723<br />
1735<br />
1755<br />
1790<br />
Yongzheng<br />
Qianlong<br />
Ten Great Campaigns<br />
1793 Lord Macartney, first British envoy to Beijing<br />
1796<br />
1814<br />
Jiaqing<br />
First recorded <strong>Chinese</strong> convert to Western<br />
Christianity (the Nestorian form was long-<br />
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First Portuguese<br />
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1820<br />
1821<br />
Qing Dynasty<br />
Modern China<br />
established in China)<br />
1839<br />
Daoguang First Opium War<br />
1842 Treaty <strong>of</strong> Nanjing<br />
1850<br />
1851<br />
1854<br />
1856<br />
1858<br />
1860<br />
1861<br />
1862<br />
1874<br />
1875<br />
Xianfeng<br />
Tongzhi<br />
Taiping Rebellion<br />
Second Opium War<br />
1876 Chefoo Convention<br />
1884<br />
1885<br />
1894<br />
1895<br />
Guangxu<br />
Franco-<strong>Chinese</strong> War<br />
First Sino-Japanese War<br />
1898 Hundred Days' Reform<br />
1900 Boxer Rebellion<br />
1901 Boxer Protocol<br />
1908<br />
Puyi<br />
1911 Xinhai Revolution<br />
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Treaty <strong>of</strong> Aigun<br />
Treaties <strong>of</strong><br />
Tianjin<br />
Beijing<br />
Convention<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong><br />
Foochow<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Yalu<br />
River<br />
Treaty <strong>of</strong><br />
Shimonoseki<br />
Coup by Empress<br />
Dowager Cixi<br />
Wuchang<br />
Uprising<br />
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Date Ruling<br />
entity<br />
1912<br />
1913<br />
Republic <strong>of</strong><br />
China<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> State Events Other people/events<br />
Sun Yat Sen<br />
Xinhai Revolution<br />
Yuan Shikai<br />
1915 Japan's Twenty-One Demands<br />
1919 May Fourth Movement<br />
1921<br />
1926<br />
1927<br />
1928<br />
1931<br />
1932<br />
1934<br />
1935<br />
Chiang Kai-<br />
Shek<br />
Lin Sen<br />
Foundation <strong>of</strong> the Communist<br />
Party <strong>of</strong> China<br />
Northern Expedition<br />
<strong>Chinese</strong> Soviet Republic<br />
Long March<br />
1936 Xian incident<br />
1937<br />
Kuomintang-Communist<br />
split<<br />
Nanchang Uprising<br />
Jinan Incident<br />
Mukden Incident<br />
Japan declares Manchukuo<br />
in Manchuria, independent<br />
from China<br />
Japan establishes the<br />
Mengjiang<br />
Marco Polo Bridge Incident<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Pingxingguan<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Nanjing<br />
Nanking Massacre<br />
1938 Battle <strong>of</strong> Tai'erzhuang<br />
1939<br />
Second Sino-Japanese War<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Changsha (1939)<br />
1940<br />
Hundred Regiments<br />
Offensive<br />
1941 Battle <strong>of</strong> Changsha (1941)<br />
1942 Battle <strong>of</strong> Changsha (1942)<br />
1943<br />
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1944<br />
1945<br />
1947<br />
Chiang Kai-<br />
February 28 Incident<br />
1949<br />
Shek<br />
Kuomintang retreats to Taiwan<br />
1971<br />
1975<br />
1978<br />
1979<br />
1988<br />
Yen Chia-jin<br />
Chiang Ching-<br />
Kuo<br />
The PRC replaces the ROC as a<br />
permanent member <strong>of</strong> the UN<br />
Security Council<br />
Taiwan Relations Act passed by<br />
the United States Congress<br />
1996 Lee Teng-hui Third Taiwan Strait Crisis<br />
2000<br />
2002<br />
Chen Shuibian<br />
ROC Presidential Election 2000<br />
Chen Shui-bian's Four Noes and<br />
One Without<br />
Accession to World Trade<br />
Organization<br />
2003 SARS outbreak<br />
2004 ROC Presidential Election 2004<br />
Date Ruling<br />
entity<br />
1949<br />
Battle <strong>of</strong> Changsha (1944)<br />
The nationalist government<br />
is one <strong>of</strong> the founding<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the UN<br />
ROC Presidential Election<br />
1996<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> State Events Other people/events<br />
Founding <strong>of</strong> the People's Republic<br />
<strong>of</strong> China<br />
1950 Battle <strong>of</strong> Chosin Reservoir<br />
1951 PLA enters Tibet<br />
1953<br />
1956<br />
1957<br />
1958<br />
1959<br />
Hundred Flowers campaign<br />
Great Leap Forward<br />
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1960<br />
1961<br />
People's<br />
Republic <strong>of</strong><br />
China<br />
Mao Zedong<br />
Sino-Soviet split<br />
1962 Sino-Indian War<br />
1964<br />
1966<br />
1969<br />
1970<br />
1971<br />
1972<br />
State Council decrees it is<br />
acceptable to abbreviate most<br />
characters listed in the Plan for<br />
Character Simplification<br />
Cultural Revolution<br />
First satellite launch, using Long<br />
March rocket<br />
The PRC replaces the ROC as a<br />
permanent member <strong>of</strong> the UN<br />
Security Council<br />
Richard Nixon visits China.<br />
Shanghai Communiqué<br />
1974 Discovery <strong>of</strong> the Terracotta Army<br />
1976<br />
Four Modernizations<br />
1977 Beijing Spring<br />
Hua Gu<strong>of</strong>eng<br />
<strong>of</strong> Deng<br />
Xiaoping<br />
Period<br />
Three Years <strong>of</strong> Natural<br />
Disasters<br />
The PRC detonates its first<br />
atomic bomb<br />
The Little Red Book<br />
Opening <strong>of</strong> the first line <strong>of</strong><br />
the Beijing Subway: 17<br />
stations<br />
Henry Kissinger secretly<br />
visits Beijing<br />
Tiananmen incident<br />
following the death <strong>of</strong> Zhou<br />
Enlai<br />
1978 Start <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong> economic reforms<br />
Democracy Wall<br />
One-child policy<br />
Movement<br />
1979<br />
USA and PRC establish full<br />
diplomatic relations<br />
Border-war with Vietnam<br />
Visit <strong>of</strong> Deng Xiaoping to<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
Deng Xiaoping's Four<br />
cardinal principles<br />
1980 First Special Economic Zones Trial <strong>of</strong> the Gang <strong>of</strong> Four<br />
1981<br />
1984<br />
1987<br />
Hu Yaobang <strong>of</strong><br />
Deng Xiaoping<br />
Period<br />
Zhao Ziyang<br />
<strong>of</strong> Deng<br />
Xiaoping<br />
Margaret Thatcher in China, signs<br />
Sino-British Joint Declaration, to<br />
handover <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong to the<br />
PRC in 1997<br />
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1989<br />
1991<br />
See also<br />
� History <strong>of</strong> China<br />
� History <strong>of</strong> the People's Republic <strong>of</strong> China<br />
� History <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> China<br />
� <strong>Chinese</strong> sovereign<br />
� Dynasties in <strong>Chinese</strong> <strong>history</strong><br />
� Table <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong> monarchs (very long)<br />
� <strong>Timeline</strong> <strong>of</strong> Taiwanese <strong>history</strong><br />
� <strong>Timeline</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong <strong>history</strong><br />
External links<br />
Period<br />
Tiananmen Square protests <strong>of</strong><br />
1989<br />
First McDonald's restaurant in<br />
Beijing<br />
1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis<br />
1997<br />
Jiang Zemin <strong>of</strong><br />
Hong Kong handover, becomes a<br />
Special Administrative Region<br />
1999<br />
Deng Xiaoping<br />
Period<br />
Macau handover<br />
The PRC passes Japan as the<br />
2000<br />
country with which the USA has<br />
the largest trade deficit<br />
2001<br />
Accession to World Trade<br />
Organization<br />
2002 16th Party Congress<br />
2003<br />
2004<br />
Hu Jintao<br />
SARS outbreak<br />
� Comparative timeline <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chinese</strong>, Japanese and Korean historical events<br />
(http://homepage1.nifty.com/<strong>history</strong>/<strong>history</strong>.html) (in Japanese)<br />
� <strong>Chinese</strong> History and Dynasties (http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/<strong>history</strong>/index.htm)<br />
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Beijing elected to hold the<br />
2008 Summer Olympics<br />
Shenzhou 5, PRC's first<br />
manned space mission<br />
Jiang Zemin retires from<br />
his post as Chairman <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Central Military<br />
Commission<br />
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