Full detailed timeline Flashcards
1
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PLA peacefully take Beijing
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Jan 10 1949
2
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People’s Daily formally moves to Beijing
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Mar 15 1949
3
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First National Woman’s Congress takes place in Beijing
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Mar 24 - Apr 3 1949
4
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Nanjing falls to the PLA
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Apr 23 1949
5
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Shanghai falls to the PLA
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May 27 1949
6
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Mao declares China will ‘lean to one side’, that of the USSR in ‘On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship’
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July 1 1949
7
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US publishes its China White Paper - ‘United States Relations with China’
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Aug 5 1949
8
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Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing (declared capital in this on the 27th)
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Sept 21 – 30 1949
9
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Mao elected as Chairman of the Central People’s Government (CPG)
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In the first CPPCC - Sept 21 – 30 1949
10
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The PRC is formally established
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Oct 1 1949
11
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Zhou Enlai appointed premier and Minister of Foreign affairs
Mao - chairman of the CPG’s Revolutionary Military Affairs Committee
Zhu De - commander-in-chief of the PLA
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Oct 1 1949
12
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Mao meets Stalin in Moscow (1st trip outside China)
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Dec 16 1949
13
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The English-language fortnightly People’s China begins publication in Beijing
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Jan 1 1950
14
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Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship (Alliance + Mutual Assistance) signed in Moscow
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Feb 14 1949
15
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Bank of China brought under control of the People’s Bank
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Mar 22 1949
16
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Marriage Law established
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May 1 1950
17
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Korean war breaks out
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Jun 25 1950
18
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Mao denounces the US for aggression in Korea
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Jun 28 1950
19
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Agrarian Reform Law of the PRC promulgated
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Jun 30 1950
20
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PLA takes Changdu in Xikang, as they advance towards Tibet
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Oct 19 1950
21
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The Chinese People’s volunteers publicly enter Korea in support of the DPRK
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Oct 25 1950
22
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China states ‘Tibet is an integral part of Chinese territory’ + the Tibetan problem is a ‘domestic problem’ in a note to India
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Oct 30 1950
23
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DPRK take Seoul w/ the Chinese People’s volunteers
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Jan 4 1951
24
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UN condemns China as an aggressor in Korea
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Feb 1 1951
25
Peng Zhen made Mayor of Beijing
Feb 28 1951
26
Mao Zedong’s son Mao Anying is killed in the Korean War
May 1951
27
Tibet recognised as part of the PRC but Tibetans given right to regional autonomy
May 23 1951
28
Vol 1 of The Selected Works of Mao Zedong published in Beijing
Oct 12 1951
29
Dalai Lama cables Mao, signifying his support for the May 23 Agreement
Oct 24 1951
30
Three-Antis Movement launched
Jan 1 1952
31
Five-Antis Movement launched
Feb 1 1952
32
Enlai denounces UN for intrusions in China’s airspace
Mar 8 1952
33
Gao Gang appointed chairman of the State Planning Commission
Oct 10 1952
34
The New China News Agency announces the virtual completion of land reform
July 5 1952
35
A People’s Daily editorial announces the beginning of the First Five-Year Plan
Jan 1 1953
36
The Korean armistice signed
July 27 1953
37
The CPPCC adopts a resolution in favour of developing APC’s
Dec 16 1953
38
Enlai and India agree to the five principles of peaceful coexistence in a joint announcement
Jun 28 1954
39
Gao Gang and Rao Shushi expelled from the CCP and dismissed from all posts
Mar 31 1954
40
Gao Gang kills himself
Spring 1954
41
Extremely severe flooding recorded - NCNA report the level Yangzi River is even higher than in 1931 (when 3.7 million people were killed)
Aug 4 1954
42
The First National People’s Congress elects Mao as chairman of the PRC, Liu Shaoqi as chairman of the congress’ standing committee + approves Mao’s rec of Enlai as premier of the State Council
Sept 27 1954
43
The People’s Bank begins issuing a new people’s currency at the rate of 10,000 old to 1 new yuan (transition completed Jun 10)
Mar 1 1955
44
Dalai Lama appointed chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibetan Autonomous Region
Mar 9 1955
45
Writer and Poet Hu Feng expelled from all posts in literature + art circles for bourgeois and idealist thinking
May 25 1955
46
The National Political Congress adopts the 1st Five-Year Plan (1953-57)
Jun 30 1955
47
Sino-American talks at ambassadorial level begin in Geneva
Aug 1 1955
48
Mao orders the Model Regulations for the APC’s to be promulgated
Mar 17 1956
49
Mao makes his speech ‘On the Ten Major Relationships’
Apr 25 1956
50
Launch of the Hundred Flowers Campaign - Mao calls for greater academic freedom with the slogan ‘let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend’
May 2 1956
51
Eighth CPPCC elects Liu Shaoqi, Enlai, Zhu De + Chen Yun as vice chairmen of the CPPCC + Deng Xiaoping as secretary-general
Sept 28 1956
52
Enlai congratulates Janos Kadar, leader of the newly Soviet Hungary
Nov 6 1956
53
Open criticism of the CCP in 100 flowers reach their height
May 1 - Jun 7 1957
54
End of 100 flowers, start of Anti-Rightist Campaign - People’s Daily editorial states rightists are trying to overthrow the CCP
Jun 8 1957
55
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association established – recognises Pope’s authority over religious matters alone
July 15 – Aug 2 1957
56
Sino-Soviet Agreement on New Technology for National Defence
Oct 15 1957
57
Beijing-Guangzhou railway created – road-railway bridge over the Yangzi at Wuhan opened
Oct 15 1957
58
Mao declares ‘the east wind is prevailing over the west wind’ in Moscow
Nov 17 1957
59
The Second Five-Year Plan (1958-62) moves into operation (overtaken + superseded by the GLF)
Jan 1 1958
60
Mao appoints replaces Zhou Enlai as minister of Foreign Affairs with Chen Yi
Feb 11 1957
61
The Sputnick Federated Cooperative, China’s first people’s commune, is established in Henan Province
Apr 29 1958
62
The Second session of the Eighth Congress of the CCP endorses the Great Leap Forward
May 5 - 23 1958
63
Pope Pius XII condemns the Church of the Catholic Patriotic Association + declares its bishops invalid
June 29 1958
64
Khrushchev (leader of the USSR from ’53) visits China. 3 Aug – He + Mao issue an announcement expressing unanimity on all matters (not mentioning Taiwan)
July 31 – Aug 3 1958
65
The Beidaihe Conference (Politburo+) decides in favour of establishing people’s communes in rural China
Aug 29 1958
66
6th Plenum of the Eighth CPPCC reverses some of the most radical policies of the GLF
Nov 28 - Dec 10 1958
67
Ho Chi Minh (president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) visits Beijing
Feb 9 – 12 1959
68
10th – armed rebellion begins against the Chinese gov in Lhasa, Tibet
23rd – revolt suppressed
28th – Panchen Lama appointed chair of the Preparatory committee of Tibet
31st – Dalai Lama flees Tibet + enters India
March 1959
69
Second National Party Congress appoints Liu Shaoqi as president of the PRC – replacing Mao
Apr 27 1959
70
Second National Party Congress directs democratic reforms be carried out in Tibet
Apr 28 1959
71
The International Commission of Jurists states ‘deliberate violation of fundamental human rights’ has taken place in Tibet
Jun 5 1959
72
Serious flooding occurs in Guangdong
June 1959
73
Extreme serious drought reaches peak in vast areas of China (affecting 30% of China’s land under cultivation)
July - August 1959
74
The Lushan Plenum dismisses Peng Dehuai
Aug 16 1959
75
President Liu Shaoqi proclaims the appointment of Lin Biao as minister of National Defence (replacing Peng Dehaui)
Sept 17 1959
76
Armed clash between Chinese + India border guards in Ladakh
Oct 21 1959
77
The Luoyang Tractor Plant is completed (first in China)
Nov 1 1959
78
Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, Gong Pinmei, is sentence to life imprisonment
Mar 17 1960
79
Written attacks between China and the USSR start with an article in Red Flag warning against changing Lenin’s notion of the nature of imperialism
Apr 16 1960
80
Enlai and Indian Prime Minister Nehru sign a joint agreement that both govs should study problems on their mutual border
Apr 25 1960
81
Sino-Mongolian Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance signed
May 31 1960
82
The Soviet Union notifies China of its decision to withdraw all its experts from China within a month
July 16 1960
83
Sino-Burmese Boundary Treaty signed
Oct 1 1960
84
NCNA claims 1960 natural disasters (drought, floods, typhoons, insect pests) worst of the century – over ½ China’s total farmland has been affected, widespread + serious famine
Dec 29 1960
85
The original version of Wu Han’s play Hai Rui’s Dismissal is published in the periodical Beijing Literature and Art
Jan 9 1961
86
Central Meteorological Bureau claims 1959-60 drought was worst since 1877, drought persists in 5 provinces, floods in 4 – continuing the famine
Mar 6 1961
87
Enlai and Kim II Sung sign the Sino-Korean Treaty of Friendship
July 11 1961
88
Enlai defends Albania, publicly censured by Khrushchev two days earlier, at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow
Oct 19 1961
89
UN General Assembly adopts a resolution that the PRC’s admission should be regarded as an ‘important question’ requiring a two-thirds majority – China denounces the resolution on Dec 21
Dec 15 1961
90
