Timeline of Chinese history

The following is a timeline of the history of China:

See also: China, History of China, History of the People's Republic of China, History of Taiwan, Chinese sovereign, Table of Chinese monarchs (very long)

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

External Link

• Comparative timeline of Chinese, Japanese and Korean historical events (http://homepage1.nifty.com/history/history.html)

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