Dates Flashcards
Treaty of Nanjing (loss of Hong Kong)
1842
Treaty of Tianjin
1858-60
Convention of Peking
1860
Jiangnan Arsenal
1865
Fuzhou Shipyard
1868
Tianjin Massacre
1870
The Opium War
1839-42
Second Anglo-Chinese War
1856-60
First Sino-Japanese War
1894-95
Treaty of Shimonoseki
1895
The Triple Intervention
1895
Failed coup by Sun Yatsen and Tongmenghui
1895
First modern bank in China
1897
Hundred Days’ Reform
1898 (June-September)
Cixi’s Reactionary Coup
1898 (Immediately after 100 days reform)
The Boxer Rebellion
1898-1900
Japan opens up Korea for trade
1876
Pro-Japanese Revolution in Korea
1894
Fall of Qing Dynasty
1911
Wuchang Uprising
10/10/1911
Sun Yatsen and Alliance League invited to rule
November 1911
Treaty of Versailles
1919
First Congress of CCP (Chinese Communist Party)
1921 (July)
First United Front (GMD-CCP Alliance)
1924
Death of Sun Yatsen
1925
Chiang Kai-Shek rises to power
1926
Northern Expedition
1926
White Terror
1927
Jiangxi Soviet
1927
Manchurian Crisis
1931
CCP Long March to Yanan
1934-35
Mao Zedong elected chair of CCP Politburo
1935
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937
Rape of Nanjin
December 1937
GMD-CCP Troop Conflict
1939
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
1941
Japanese surrender (Hiroshima bombing)
1945
Chinese Civil War
1945-49
Soviet Demands to China
1958
Great Leap Forward
1958-62
Khruschev’s Secret Speech
1956
Great Famine
1959-62
USSR withdrawal of economic support
1960
Sino-Albanian alliance
1961
Sino-Indian war
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1963
Malinovsky Affair
1964
Start of Cultural Revolution
1966
USSR and China recall ambassadors
1967
Brezhnev Doctrine
1968
Military confrontations
1969
Emergence of Deng Xiaoping and his Four Modernisations
1978
Deng visits USA to normalise relations with USA
1979
Sino-Vietnam War
1979
Abandonment of agricultural communes
1979
PRC joins World Bank and IMF
1980
China and UK sign Join Declaration, agreeing Hong Kong will be handed back in 1997
1984
Tiananmen Square protest massacre
1989
China ‘most favoured nation’ status with USA
1991
Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control
1997
Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship
1978
Patten introduces democracy to Hong Kong
Early 1990s
China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company
1872
China Submarine Telegraph Company
1869
First commercial airline in China
1929
Shanghai Commercial Association
1919
Agrarian Land Reform
1950
Shenzen opened as a Special Economic Zone
1992
TV Soong’s simplified tax system
1920s