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Chronology
18945 | First SinoJapanese War |
1908 | Draft Constitution incorporates individual rights |
1911 | Fall of the Qing dynasty |
1912 | Republic of China established under Sun Yat-sen |
1927 | Split between Nationalists (KMT) and Communists (CCP); civil war begins |
19345 | CCP under Mao Zedong evades KMT in Long March |
December 1937 | Nanjing Massacre |
193745 | Second SinoJapanese War |
19459 | Civil war between KMT and CCP resumes |
October 1949 | KMT retreats to Taiwan; Mao founds People's Republic of China (PRC) |
19503 | Korean War |
19537 | First Five-Year Plan; PRC adopts Soviet-style economic planning |
1954 | First Constitution of the PRC and first meeting of the National People's Congress |
19567 | Hundred Flowers Movement, a brief period of open political debate |
1957 | Anti-Rightist Movement |
195860 | Great Leap Forward, an effort to transform China through rapid industrialization and collectivization |
1958 | The household registration (hukou) system is introduced |
March 1959 | Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa; Dalai Lama flees to India |
195961 | Three Hard Years, widespread famine with tens of millions of deaths |
1960 | SinoSoviet split |
1962 | SinoIndian War |
October 1964 | First PRC atomic bomb detonation |
196676 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; Mao reasserts power |
February 1972 | President Richard Nixon visits China; Shanghai Communiqu pledges to normalize USChina relations |
September 1976 | Death of Mao Zedong |
October 1976 | Ultra-Leftist Gang of Four arrested and sentenced |
December 1978 | Deng Xiaoping assumes power; launches Four Modernizations and economic reforms |
1978 | One-child family planning policy introduced |
1979 | US and China establish formal diplomatic ties; Deng Xiaoping visits Washington |
1979 | PRC invades Vietnam |
1982 | Census reports PRC population at more than one billion |
1982 | Fourth Constitution of the PRC |
December 1984 | Margaret Thatcher co-signs SinoBritish Joint Declaration agreeing to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1988 | PRC ratifies the Convention Against Torture |
1989 | Tiananmen Square protests culminate in June 4 military crackdown |
1991 | First government White Book on Human Rights |
1992 | Deng Xiaoping's Southern Inspection Tour re-energizes economic reforms and drive to urbanization |
19932002 | Jiang Zemin is president of PRC, continues economic growth agenda |
1998 | PRC signs the ICCPR (not yet ratified) |
2001 | PRC ratifies the ICESCR |
November 2001 | WTO accepts China as member |
200212 | Hu Jintao, General-Secretary CCP (and President of PRC from 2003) |
20023 | SARS outbreak concentrated in PRC and Hong Kong |
2003 | Sun Zhigang Incident and founding of NGO Gongmeng |
2004 | Constitution includes phrase the state respects and protects human rights |
20045 | Lawyer Gao Zhisheng publishes open letters on Falun Gong torture |
2006 | PRC supplants US as largest CO2 emitter |
December 2006 | Founding of anti-discrimination NGO Yirenping |
August 2008 | Summer Olympic Games in Beijing |
December 2008 | Publication of Charter 08, imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo |
2010 | Shanghai World Exposition |
2011 | The Jasmine Crackdown targets human rights defenders |
2012 | Xi Jinping appointed General-Secretary of the CCP (and President of PRC from 2013) |
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