- 1893-1976: Mao Zedong.
- 1926-1927: Mao Zedong organizes the peasants of Hunan.
- 1930-1934: Chiang Kai-shek makes five attempts to encircle the Communists.
- 1934: The Long March.
- 1949: The Chinese Communist Party takes over mainland China.
- KMT and Chiang Kai-shek retreat to Taiwan.
- Sino-Soviet Alliance.
- 1950: Agrarian Law.
- Chinese "volunteers" enter the Korean War.
- 1951: The Three-Anti, Five-Anti and Thought Reform Campaigns.
- 1953-1956: Collectivization begins.
- 1956-1957: The "Hundred Flowers" period.
- 1958: The Great Leap Forward.
- 1960: The USSR withdraws technical advisers from China.
- 1966: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins.
- 1970: The Universities are reopened.
- 1971: PRC is given a seat on the UN Security Council.
- 1972: US President Richard Nixon visits China.
- 1973: Tenth Party Congress adopts anti- Lin Biao and anti-Confucius campaigns.
- 1976: Zhou Enlai dies.
- Tiananmen Square riots.
- Deng Xiaoping ousted.
- Hua Guofeng is made Premier.
- Tongshan earthquake.
- Mao Zedong dies.
- The Gang of Four is arrested.
- 1977: Deng Xiaoping is rehabilitated.
- 1979: US and PRC establish diplomatic relations.
- 1980: "Democracy Wall" is closed down.
- 1981: CCP denounces Mao Zedong
- 1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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