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The Revolutionary alliance overthrows the last Chinese emperor.
The Qing Dynasty was the last ruling dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. After the last Ming Emperor committed suicide the city fell and the Manchus allied with the Ming Dynasty to seize control and overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty. -
Sun Yat Sen
He Was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. -
Republic of china established
A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president. Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president. -
Mao Zendog's communist Part gains support from the peasants by giving them land
Thus increasing Japanese power in China, in 1919 Chinese protesters began calling for a stronger more independent China. Some impressed by the result of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mao Zedong was the led of Communists. He gained support for Communists cause in southeastern China by redistributing land to the peasants and offering them schooling and health care. -
Shanghai Massacre
Also known as the April 12 Incident, was a large-scale purge of Communists from the Kuomintang in Shanghai, ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 12 April 1927, during the Northern Expedition. -
Chang Kai-Shek
He ruled the chinese military and he was a political leader who led the kuominatang for five decades and was head of state of the chinese nationalist government between 1928 and 1949. He led the suppression of the Chinese Communist Party. -
WWII
Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan. The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks. -
Jiang Jieshi defeats Mao's communists and the communists flee in 'the Long March'
An uprising in Vienna leads to the immediate resignation of the long-serving chancellor Klemens von Metternich. -
Mao Zedong formally declares the People's Republic of China.
Shanghai, Sept. 30--Mao Tze-tung, chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party, was elected chairman of the new Central Government of the People's Republic of China today as the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council completed its job of launching the new government of Communist China. -
People's Republic of China Established
The People's Republic of China was formally established, with its national capital at Beijing.
