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Modern china timeline

By ashtonahs

  • Boxer rebellion

    Boxer rebellion
    In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion (or the Boxer Uprising) happened. What happened was this. a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.

  • Fall of the Qing dynasty

    Fall of the Qing dynasty
    The Qing Dynasty fell in 1911. They where overthrown by a revolution brewing since 1894.when western-educated revolutionary Sun Zhongshan formed the Revive China Society in Hawaii, then Hong Kong.

  • Establishment of the republic of china

    Establishment of the republic of china
    A republic was formally established on 1 January 1912. In following the Xinhai Revolution. itself began with the Wuchang uprising on 10 October 1911 After successfully overthrowing the Qing dynasty and ending over two thousand years of imperial rule in China.

  • May Fourth Movement

    May Fourth Movement
    The date was 4 May 1919. The location is in the First Republic of China. It Resulted in Pro-Japanese officials removed Treaty of Versailles not signed by China Duan Qirui's government weakened Student and labor movements continued New Culture Movement split Spread of communism.

  • Second Sino-Japanese War

    Second Sino-Japanese War
    Second Sino-Japanese War, happened in 1937. conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. This had begun in 1931).

  • People’s Republic of China established

    People’s Republic of China established
    Following the Chinese Civil War and victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces over the Kuomintang forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to Taiwan, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 October 1949.

  • 1960 cultural revolution

    1960 cultural revolution
    The Cultural Revolution was launched in China in 1966 by Communist leader Mao Zedong in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 years earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China.

  • Great leap forward

    Great leap forward
    The Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962.

  • 1970 economic reform

    1970 economic reform
    The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up, known in the West as the opening of China, is the program of economic reforms termed "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Led by Deng Xiaoping, often credited as the "General Architect", the reforms were launched by reformists within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on December 18, 1978, during the "Boluan Fanzheng" period.

  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Tiananmen Square Massacre
    The protests were precipitated by the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political elite about the country's future.