Dates Flashcards

1
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Treaty of Nanjing (loss of Hong Kong)

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1842

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2
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Treaty of Tianjin

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1858-60

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3
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Convention of Peking

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1860

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4
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Jiangnan Arsenal

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1865

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5
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Fuzhou Shipyard

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1868

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6
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Tianjin Massacre

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1870

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7
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The Opium War

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1839-42

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8
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Second Anglo-Chinese War

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1856-60

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9
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First Sino-Japanese War

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1894-95

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10
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Treaty of Shimonoseki

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1895

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11
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The Triple Intervention

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1895

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12
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Failed coup by Sun Yatsen and Tongmenghui

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1895

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13
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First modern bank in China

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1897

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14
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Hundred Days’ Reform

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1898 (June-September)

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15
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Cixi’s Reactionary Coup

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1898 (Immediately after 100 days reform)

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16
Q

The Boxer Rebellion

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1898-1900

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17
Q

Japan opens up Korea for trade

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1876

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18
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Pro-Japanese Revolution in Korea

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1894

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19
Q

Fall of Qing Dynasty

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1911

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20
Q

Wuchang Uprising

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10/10/1911

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21
Q

Sun Yatsen and Alliance League invited to rule

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November 1911

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22
Q

Treaty of Versailles

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1919

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23
Q

First Congress of CCP (Chinese Communist Party)

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1921 (July)

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24
Q

First United Front (GMD-CCP Alliance)

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1924

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25
Death of Sun Yatsen
1925
26
Chiang Kai-Shek rises to power
1926
27
Northern Expedition
1926
28
White Terror
1927
29
Jiangxi Soviet
1927
30
Manchurian Crisis
1931
31
CCP Long March to Yanan
1934-35
32
Mao Zedong elected chair of CCP Politburo
1935
33
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937
34
Rape of Nanjin
December 1937
35
GMD-CCP Troop Conflict
1939
36
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
1941
37
Japanese surrender (Hiroshima bombing)
1945
38
Chinese Civil War
1945-49
39
Soviet Demands to China
1958
40
Great Leap Forward
1958-62
41
Khruschev's Secret Speech
1956
42
Great Famine
1959-62
43
USSR withdrawal of economic support
1960
44
Sino-Albanian alliance
1961
45
Sino-Indian war
1962
46
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
47
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1963
48
Malinovsky Affair
1964
49
Start of Cultural Revolution
1966
50
USSR and China recall ambassadors
1967
51
Brezhnev Doctrine
1968
52
Military confrontations
1969
53
Emergence of Deng Xiaoping and his Four Modernisations
1978
54
Deng visits USA to normalise relations with USA
1979
55
Sino-Vietnam War
1979
56
Abandonment of agricultural communes
1979
57
PRC joins World Bank and IMF
1980
58
China and UK sign Join Declaration, agreeing Hong Kong will be handed back in 1997
1984
59
Tiananmen Square protest massacre
1989
60
China 'most favoured nation' status with USA
1991
61
Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control
1997
62
Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship
1978
63
Patten introduces democracy to Hong Kong
Early 1990s
64
China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company
1872
65
China Submarine Telegraph Company
1869
66
First commercial airline in China
1929
67
Shanghai Commercial Association
1919
68
Agrarian Land Reform
1950
69
Shenzen opened as a Special Economic Zone
1992
70
TV Soong's simplified tax system
1920s