chinese revolution aos1 dates

First Sino-Japanese War

1894-1895

‘Double Tenth’ uprising at Wuhan

10th October 1911

Sun Yixian becoming provisional president of the Republic of China

1st January 1912

Republic of China announced

1st January 1912

Abdication of Emperor Pu Yi

12th February 1912

Inauguration of Yuan Shikai as president

10th March 1912

Sun becomes Minister of Railways

September 1912

Parliamentary elections and the GMD came out on top

January 1913

Song Jiaoren shot

20th March 1913

Second Revolution

25th July 1913

GMD banned

4th November 1913

Yuan dissolves national parliament

10th January 1914

New Constitution gives Yuan further authority

1st May 1914

Yuan accepts Japan’s Twenty One Demands

7th May 1915

New Culture movement as New Youth journal is established

15th September 1915

Yuan becomes emperor

1st January 1916

Renunciation of the throne

22nd March 1916

Death of Yuan Shikai

6th June 1916

Sun elected as grand marshall of new military government at Guangzhou

10th September 1917

May Fourth Movement

4th May 1919

Karakhan Manifesto

25th July 1919

Hendricus Maring arrives in China

3rd June 1921

First Congress of CCP in Shanghai

23rd July 1921

Founding of the CCP

23rd July 1921

Sun meeting with Maring and Joffe

August 1922

Sun-Joffe Declaration

26th January 1923

Beginning of the First United Front

26th January 1923

Jiang appointed as commander in chief of NRA

3rd May 1924

Death of Sun Yixian

11th March 1925

May Thirtieth Incident

30th May 1925

Jiang elected as chairman of the CEC

6th July 1925

Announcement of the Northern Expedition

1st July 1926

Northern Expedition begins

27th July 1926

Shanghai falls to the CCP/GMD

22nd March 1927

Shanghai Massacre

12th April 1927

Founding of Nationalist Government in Nanjing

18th April 1927

Ending of the First United Front

15th July 1927

Jiang comes back and resumes expedition

1st January 1928

Jiang elected chairman of Nationalist government of China

10th October 1928

Jiangxi Soviet established

10th February 1929

Beginning of Japanese occupation of Manchuria

18th September 1931

First All-China Congress of Soviets

7th November 1931

Mao elected as chairman of Jiangxi Soviet

7th November 1931

Jiangxi Soviet declares war on Japan

15th April 1932

Fifth Encirclement Campaign begins

6th October 1933

New Life Movement begins

19th February 1934

Long March begins

16th October 1934

Battle of Xiang River

25th November 1934

Zunyi Conference

6th January 1935

Battle of Luding Bridge

30th May 1935

Long March ends

22nd October 1935

Xi’an incident

12th December 1936

Yan’an Soviet established

12th December 1936

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

7th July 1937

Second United front launched

22nd September 1937

Japanese capture Nanjing

13th December 1937

Second United Front ends

4th January 1941

Rectification Campaign launched

1st February 1941

Chinese Civil War begins

July 1946

Jiang Jieshi resigns as president

21st January 1949

Mao proclaims the People’s Republic of China

1st October 1949