History Unit 4 AOS 2

People’s Republic of China declared

1 October 1949

People’s Political Consultative Conference drafts preliminary constitution for the PRC

20-21 September 1949

Mao arrives in Moscow

16 December 1949

Marriage Law

1 May 1950

Agrarian Reform Law (fanshen)

28 June 1950

Mao approves Chinese intervention in Korean War

8 October 1950

Launch of the Three-Antis movement (sanfan)

7 December 1951

Beginning of the Five-Antis movement (wufan)

1 February 1952

First Five-Year Plan begins

1 January 1953

CCP Central Committee passes resolution on formation of Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives

16 December 1953

Gao Gang purged from the CCP

31 March 1954

The High Tide begins

30 July 1955

Rally in Beijing celebrates joint state-private ownership of industries

15 January 1956

Kruschev denounces Stalin at Twentieth Party Congress in Moscow

25 February 1956

Mao’s speech ‘On the correct handling of contradictions among the people’ invigorates the Hundred Flowers campaign

27 February 1957

Widespread blooming and contending occurs

1 May 1957

End of the Hundred Flowers campaign and launch of the Anti-Rightist campaign

8 June 1957

USSR launches Sputnik satellite

4 October 1957

Founding of first People’s Commune

29 April 1958

Great Leap Forward formally launched at Eighth Party Congress

5-28 May 1958

Liu Shaoqi appointed President of People’s Republic of China. Great Leap Forward policies scaled back

April 1959

Severe drought across China and beginning of Three Bad Years famine

July-August 1959

Peng Duhai condemned as ‘anti-Party element’

14 July-16 August 1959

Great Leap Forward reaffirmed at Leshan Plenum

14 July-16 August 1959

Kruschev receives hostile reception during visit to China

30 September 1959

7000 Cadres Conference

January 1962

Tenth Plenum launches Socialist Education Movement

24-27 September 1962

Jiang Qing’s first official public appearance

29 September 1962

‘Learn from Lei Feng’ campaign launched

2 March 1963

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong made available for PLA use

May 1964

China cuts diplomatic ties with the USSR

July 1964

Li Shaoqi reconfirmed as President

3 January 1965

Yao Wenyuan published critical review of Hai Rui Dismissed from Office

10 November 1965

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

2-20 February 1966

Peng Zhen’s Five-Man Group offers its February Outline Report on the Wu Han issue

12 February 1966

Central Committee releases May 16 Circular and forms Cultural Revolution Small Group

4-18 May 1966

Nie Yuanzi puts her big-characer poster: What Are You up to in the Cultural Revolution

24 May 1966

Mao’s Good Swim

16 July 1966

Central Committee releases the Sixteen Points

1-8 August 1966

Mao puts up My Big First Character Poster: Bomb the Headquarters!

5 August 1966

First of eight Red Guard mass rallies in Tianmen Square

18 August 1966

Rebels overthrow Shanghai municipal authorities and January Storm begins

14 January 1967

‘Three-in-one revolutionary committees’ directed to assume authority

10 March 1967

Li Shaoqi expelled from the CCP

31 October 1968

Ninth Party Congress

1-24 April 1969

Lin Biao’s ally Chen Boda is arrested and purged following the Second Lushan Plenum

23 August 1970

US table-tennis team visits China

6 April 1971

Fall of Lin Biao

13 September 1971

President Nixon arrives in Beijing

21 February 1972

Deng Xiaoping resumes duties as Vice-Premier

29 March 1973

‘Criticise Confucius and Lin Biao’ campaign launched

1 January 1974

Zhou Enlai dies

8 January 1976

Hua Guofeng appointed Acting Premier

7 February 1976

Mao Zedong dies

9 September 1976