- 1866-1925: Sun Yat-sen.
- 1915: Japan presents its Twenty-One Demands.
- 1916: Warlords struggle for power after the death of Yuan Shikai.
- 1921: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is formed.
- 1926-1927: Mao Zedong organizes the peasants of Hunan Province.
- 1931: Mukden Incident.
- 1934: The Communist's Long March.
- 1937: Incident at Marco Polo Bridge.
- 1945: Japanese surrender.
- 1949: Chiang Kai-shek and KMT retreat to Taiwan.
- 1893-1976: Mao Zedong.
- 1949: The Chinese Communist Party takes over mainland China.
- 1951: The Three-Anti, Five-Anti and Thought Reform Campaigns.
- 1956-1957: The "Hundred Flowers" period.
- 1958: The Great Leap Forward.
- 1966: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins.
- 1972: US President Richard Nixon visits China.
- 1977: Deng Xiaoping is rehabilitated.
- 1981: CCP denounces Mao Zedong
- 1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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