Timeline of Chinese history (original) (raw)
Ancient China
Date
Ruling entity
Emperor
Events
Other people/events
This period is part of the Chinese mythology
-2205
First records of Chinese characters
End of Western Zhou
Beginning of Eastern Zhou
Start of construction of the Great Wall
Burial of the Terracotta Army
Han Dynasty
(Western Han)
Han Dynasty
(Eastern Han)
Three Kingdoms
(Wei, Shu, Wu)
Introduction of Buddhism in China
Southern and Northern Dynasties
Bodhidharma arrives in China
First Christian missionaries arrive in China: Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia, building Daqin Pagoda.
Mass persecution of Buddhism
Five Dynasties
and Ten Kingdoms
Franciscan friars begin mission work in China
Jianwen
Construction of the Forbidden City begins
First Portuguese settlement in Macau
Earthquake in Shaanxi and Gansu. 850,000 casualties
Jesuits begin mission work in China
Nurhaci founds the Qing Dynasty in Manchuria
First Manchu expedition to Korea
Second Manchu expedition to Korea
First Portuguese governor in Macau
The British East India Company establishes a trading post in Guangzhou
Lord Macartney, first British envoy to Beijing
First recorded Chinese convert to Christianism
Chefoo Convention
Coup by Empress Dowager Cixi
Date
Ruling entity
President
Events
Other people/events
Foundation Communist Party of China
Kuomintang-Communist split
Japan declares Manchukuo in Manchuria, independent from China
Japan establishes the Mengjiang
The nationalist government is one of the founding members of the UN
Date
Ruling entity
Chairman/President
Events
Other people/events
Founding of the People's Republic of China
Occupation of Tibet
Three Years of Natural Disasters
State Council decrees it is acceptable to abbreviate most characters listed in the Plan for Character Simplification
The PRC detonates its first atomic bomb
Opening of the first subway line in Beijing: 17 stations
First satellite launch, using Long March rocket
The PRC replaces the ROC as a permanent member of the UN Security Council
Richard Nixon visits China. Shanghai Communiqu�
Discovery of the Terracotta Army
Death of Zhou Enlai
Hua Guofeng of Deng Xiaoping Period
Start of Chinese economic reforms
USA and PRC establish full diplomatic relations
Visit of Deng Xiaoping to Washington, D.C
Border-war with Vietnam
First Special Economic Zones
Trial of the Gang of Four
Hu Yaobang of Deng Xiaoping Period
Margaret Thatcher in China, signs Sino-British Joint Declaration, to handover of Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997
Zhao Ziyang of Deng Xiaoping Period
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Jiang Zemin of Deng Xiaoping Period
First McDonald's restaurant in Beijing
Large PRC military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait
Hong Kong handover, becomes a Special administrative region
Death of Deng Xiaoping
Macau handover
The PRC passes Japan as the country with which the USA has the largest trade deficit
Accession to World Trade Organization
Beijing elected to hold the 2008 Summer Olympics
SARS outbreak
Shenzhou 5, PRC's first manned space mission
ROC in Taiwan
Date
Ruling entity
President
Events
Other people/events
Republic of China
(Continued)
Kuomintang retreats to Taiwan
The PRC replaces the ROC as a permanent member of the UN Security Council
Taiwan Relations Act passed by the United States Congress
Large PRC military maneuvers in Taiwan Strait
ROC Presidential Election 1996
ROC Presidential Election 2000
Accession to World Trade Organization
SARS outbreak