chinese revolution aos2 dates

Drafting of PRC constitution

20th-21st September 1949

Mao goes to Moscow

16th December 1949

Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance

14th February 1950

Marriage Law

1st May 1950

38th Parallel crossed by North Korean Army

5th June 1950

Agrarian Reform Law

28th June 1950

Chinese troops cross the Yalu River

15th October 1950

Chinese labelled as agressor

1st February 1951

Ceasefire called

1st July 1951

Sanfan launched

7th December 1951

Wufan launched

1st February 1952

First Five Year Plan launched

1st January 1953

5th March 1953

Stalin dies

Agricultural Cooperatives begin

16th December 1953

Gao Gang purged

31st March 1954

High Tide begins

10th July 1955

Stalin denounced at Twentieth Party Congress

25th February 1956

'On the Correct Handling of Contradictions’ speech

27th February 1957

Beginning of Hundred Flowers Campaign

1st May 1957

Beginning of Anti-Rightist Campaign

8th June 1957

End of Hundred Flowers Campaign

8th June 1957

Sputnik launched

4th October 1957

Mao says China will surpass UK steel production in 15 years

12th December 1957

Founding of First People’s Communes

29th April 1958

Great Leap Forward launched

5th May 1958

Wuhan Plenum

8th December 1958

Liu Shaoqi appointed

April 1959

Drought begins

July 1959

Lushan Plenum

14th July - August 1959

Khrushchev comes unwelcomed in China

30th September 1959

Soviet experts recalled

16th July 1960

End of famine

Early 1962

7000 Cadres Conference

11th January 1962

Socialist Education Movement launched

24th September 1962

Mao’s Early Ten Points

February 1963

‘Learn from Lei Feng’ campaign

2nd March 1963

Liu Shaoqi’s Revised Ten Points

September 1963

‘Learn from PLA’ campaign

1st February 1964

Launch of Little Red Book

May 1964

Ending of diplomatic ties with USSR

15th July 1964

‘Hai Rui dismissed from Office’ criticised by Yao Wenyuan

10th November 1965

Jiang Qing leads ‘Forum on Work in Literature and Art for the Armed Forces’

2nd February 1966

February Outline Report

12th February 1966

Peng Zhen denounced at Politburo meeting

March 1966

May 16 Circular

16th May 1966

The first Dazibao

24th May 1966

Schools and universities suspended

18th June 1966

Mao’s Great Swim

16th July 1966

‘Sixteen Points on the Cultural Revolution; released

1st August 1966

‘Bombard the Headquarters’ dazibao

5th August 1966

Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping self-criticisms

23rd October 1966

Liu Shaoqi’s struggle sessions

1st January 1967

January Storm

5th January 1967

Three-in-one revolutionary committees

10th March 1967

Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside launched

1968

Liu Shaoqi expulsion from Party

31st October 1968

Ninth Party Congress

1-24th April 1969

Ping-pong diplomacy

6th April 1971

Lin Biao dies

13th September 1971

‘Criticise Confucius and Lin Biao’ campaign

1st January 1964

‘Four Modernisations’ Program

January 1975

Zhou Enlai dies

8th January 1976

Mao dies

9th September 1976