hIStOrIc dATeS

Question 1

Opium War

Answer 1

1839-42

Question 2

Treaty of Nanjing- Hong Kong ceded to Britain

Answer 2

1842

Question 3

New territories ceded to Britain

Answer 3

1898

Question 4

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 4

1899-1901

Question 5

Death of Princess Dowager

Answer 5

1908

Question 6

Revolution overthrows Qing Dynasty

Answer 6

1911

Question 7

Republic of China proclaimed

Answer 7

1912

Question 8

Sun Yat-Sen relinquishes presidency to Yuan Shikai

Answer 8

1912

Question 9

Japanese twenty-one demands for control over China

Answer 9

1915

Question 10

May fourth movement- modern Chinese Nationalism reborn

Answer 10

1919

Question 11

Chinese communist party (CCP) founded

Answer 11

1921

Question 12

GuoMinDang (GMD) (Kuomingtang political party) reorganised

Answer 12

1923

Question 13

CCP and GMD cooperate in first united front

Answer 13

1923

Question 14

Death of Sun-Yat Sen

Answer 14

1925

Question 15

Northern Expedition to Unify China

Answer 15

1926

Question 16

CCP and GMD split after Shanghai massacre

Answer 16

1927

Question 17

GMD National Government in Nanjing
(The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD) or the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a major political party in the Republic of China throughout its historical periods in both the Chinese mainland as well as Taiwan.)

Answer 17

1928

Question 18

CCP establishes rural bases in Jiangxi province

Answer 18

1929-34

Question 19

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Answer 19

1931

Question 20

CCP Long March to Xi’an base

Answer 20

1934-36

Question 21

Japanese invasion of China proper

Answer 21

1937 (July)

Question 22

CCP and GMD Second United Front

Answer 22

1937 (September)

Question 23

Japanese surrender

Answer 23

1945

Question 24

Civil war breaks out between CCP and GMD

Answer 24

1946

Question 25

Peoples Republic of China founded

Answer 25

1949

Question 26

Korean War

Answer 26

1950-53

Question 27

Bandung Conference of non-aligned nations

Answer 27

1955

Question 28

Hundred Flowers movement

Answer 28

1956

Question 29

Anti-Rightist campaign

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

Great Leap Forward and creation of People's Communes

Answer 30

1958

Question 31

Lushan Conferences and dismissal of of Peng Dehuai

Answer 31

1959

Question 32

Cultural Revolution begins

Answer 32

1966

Question 33

Ninth Communist Party Congress

Answer 33

1969

Question 34

Death of Lin Biao

Answer 34

1971

Question 35

US President Nixon visits China

Answer 35

1972

Question 36

Death of Chiang Kai-shek

Answer 36

1975

Question 37

Death of Mao Zedong

Answer 37

1976 (September)

Question 38

Arrest of Gang of Four

Answer 38

1976 (October)

Question 39

Third Plenum of Eleventh CCP Central Committee

Answer 39

1978

Question 40

Reform begins under Deng Xiaoping

Answer 40

1978

Question 41

Trial of the Gang of Four

Answer 41

1980-1

Question 42

Hu Yaobang dismissed as CCP head

Answer 42

1987

Question 43

Zhao Ziyang replaces Hu as CCP head

Answer 43

1987

Question 44

Tian'anmen Square demonstrations suppressed

Answer 44

1989 (4 June)

Question 45

Jiang Zemin replaces Zhao Ziyang as CCP head

Answer 45

1989 (24 June)

Question 46

Deng Xiaoping retires

Answer 46

1989

Question 47

Death of Deng Xiaoping

Answer 47

1997 (February)

Question 48

Hong Kong returns to China

Answer 48

1997 (July)

Question 49

Chinese embassy in Belgrade hit by NATO bombs

Answer 49

1999 (May)

Question 50

Falungong demonstrations

Answer 50

1999 (July)

Question 51

US fighter plane incident off Hainan island

Answer 51

2001 (April)

Question 52

China enters the World Trade Organisation

Answer 52

2001 (December)

Question 53

Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic

Answer 53

2002 (November)

Question 54

CCP Sixteenth Congress - Hu Jintao President

Answer 54

2002 (November)

Question 55

Avian influenza epidemic

Answer 55

2003

Question 56

Agricultural taxation abolished

Answer 56

2006 (January)

Question 57

CCP Seventeenth Congress - Xi Jinping tipped as future leader

Answer 57

2007 (October)

Question 58

Olympic games in Beijing

Answer 58

2008 (August)