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19 decades
Busiest: the 1950s, 38
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Decade by decade.
The same 177 events as the timeline, read down instead of across. A decade with nothing logged shows nothing.
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1840s1 EVENTS
1910s4 EVENTS
1920s13 EVENTS
- 1920Comintern agents arrive in Chinadocumented
- 1920Marxist study societies formdocumented
- July 1921First National Congress, Shanghaidocumented
- July 1922Second Congress, the Party joins the Cominterndocumented
- January 1923The Sun-Joffe Manifestodocumented
- January 1924The First United Frontdocumented
- 30 May 1925The May Thirtieth Movementdocumented
- July 1926The Northern Expedition beginsdocumented
- 12 April 1927The Shanghai purgedocumented
- 1 August 1927The Nanchang Uprisingdocumented
- 7 August 1927The August Seventh Conferencedocumented
- September 1927The Autumn Harvest Uprisingdocumented
- 1928Land redistribution in the base areasdocumented
1930s18 EVENTS
- 1930The encirclement campaignsdocumented
- December 1930The Futian Incidentdocumented
- 18 September 1931The Mukden Incidentdocumented
- November 1931The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed, Jiangxidocumented
- October 1934The Long Marchdocumented
- January 1935The Zunyi Conferencedocumented
- 12 December 1936The Xi'an Incidentdocumented
- 1937On Practice and On Contradictiondocumented
- 7 July 1937The Marco Polo Bridge Incidentdocumented
- 13 August 1937The Battle of Shanghaidocumented
- 21 August 1937The Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pactdocumented
- 22 August 1937The Red Army is renamed the Eighth Route Armydocumented
- 22 September 1937The Second United Front declareddocumented
- 25 September 1937Pingxingguandocumented
- December 1937The Nanjing Massacredocumented
- June 1938The Yellow River dykes breacheddocumented
- October 1938The Sixth Plenum; Mao defeats Wang Ming's linedocumented
- October 1938Wuhan falls; the government withdraws to Chongqingdocumented
1940s26 EVENTS
- 1940The Japanese Three Alls campaign in north Chinadocumented
- August 1940The Hundred Regiments Offensivedocumented
- January 1941The New Fourth Army Incidentdocumented
- 13 April 1941The Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pactdocumented
- 8 December 1941Pearl Harbor; China becomes an Allied theatredocumented
- 1942The Great Production Campaign in Yan'andocumented
- 1942The Henan faminedocumented
- 1942The Yan'an Rectification Movementdocumented
- May 1942The Yan'an Talks on Literature and Artdocumented
- 1943The Rescue Campaign inside Rectificationdocumented
- April 1944Operation Ichigodocumented
- July 1944The Dixie Mission reaches Yan'andocumented
- 1945Soviet forces hand Manchuria and captured Japanese arms to communist unitsdocumented
- February 1945Yaltadocumented
- April 1945Seventh Congress, Mao Zedong Thought written into the Party constitutiondocumented
- August 1945Soviet forces enter Manchuria; Japan surrendersdocumented
- 14 August 1945The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliancedocumented
- March 1946Soviet withdrawal from Manchuria completeddocumented
- June 1946Full civil war resumesdocumented
- 1947The Northeast becomes the decisive theatredocumented
- October 1947The Outline Land Lawdocumented
- September 1948The Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin campaignsdocumented
- April 1949The crossing of the Yangtze; Nanjing fallsdocumented
- 30 June 1949Lean to one sidedocumented
- 1 October 1949The People's Republic is proclaimeddocumented
- December 1949Mao travels to Moscowdocumented
1950s38 EVENTS
- 1950Land reform killingscontested
- 1950The campaign to suppress counterrevolutionariescontested
- 14 February 1950The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistancedocumented
- May 1950The Marriage Lawdocumented
- 25 June 1950The Korean War beginsdocumented
- 30 June 1950The Land Reform Lawdocumented
- October 1950Chinese forces enter Koreadocumented
- October 1950Forces enter Tibetdocumented
- 8 October 1950Stalin, Mao and the decision to enter Koreadocumented
- 1951The three-anti and five-anti campaignsdocumented
- 1951Thought reform of intellectualsdocumented
- 1952The private sector extinguished by the five-anti campaigndocumented
- 1953Socialist transformation of industry and agriculturedocumented
- 1953The 156 Soviet-aided industrial projectsdocumented
- 1953The First Five-Year Plandocumented
- 5 March 1953Stalin diesdocumented
- 1954The Gao Gang and Rao Shushi affairdocumented
- September 1954Khrushchev in Beijing; Port Arthur and Dalian returneddocumented
- September 1954The first Constitution of the PRCdocumented
- 1955The Hu Feng case and the campaign to root out hidden counterrevolutionariesdocumented
- 1955The hukou household registration system takes shapedocumented
- 1955The socialist high tide in agriculturedocumented
- 1956The Hundred Flowersdocumented
- January 1956Joint state-private ownership completed in the citiesdocumented
- February 1956Khrushchev's secret speechdocumented
- September 1956Eighth Congressdocumented
- October 1956The Hungarian uprisingdocumented
- June 1957The Anti-Rightist Campaigndocumented
- November 1957Mao at the Moscow Conferencedocumented
- 1958People's communes established nationallydocumented
- May 1958The Great Leap Forward adopteddocumented
- July 1958The long-wave station and joint fleet proposals refuseddocumented
- August 1958The Beidaihe Conference, people's communessupported
- August 1958The second Taiwan Strait crisisdocumented
- 1959The great faminedocumented
- March 1959The Tibetan uprising; the Dalai Lama leavesdocumented
- June 1959Moscow cancels the nuclear sharing agreementdocumented
- July 1959The Lushan Conferencesupported
1960s14 EVENTS
- July 1960Soviet advisers withdrawndocumented
- January 1962The Seven Thousand Cadres Conferencedocumented
- October 1962The Sino-Indian Wardocumented
- 1963The Socialist Education Movement, the Four Cleanupsdocumented
- 1964Quotations from Chairman Mao publisheddocumented
- October 1964First nuclear testdocumented
- 1966Persecution, struggle sessions and deathsdocumented
- 16 May 1966The May Sixteenth Notificationsupported
- August 1966Red Guard mobilisation and Red Augustdocumented
- August 1966The Eleventh Plenum and the Sixteen Pointsdocumented
- 1967Factional fighting and administrative collapse in many provincessupported
- 1968The Down to the Countryside Movementsupported
- March 1969Sino-Soviet border clashessupported
- April 1969Ninth Congress, Lin Biao named successorsupported
1970s16 EVENTS
- 13 September 1971The Lin Biao incidentsupported
- October 1971The PRC takes the China seat at the United Nationsdocumented
- February 1972Nixon visits Chinasupported
- 1973Criticise Lin, Criticise Confuciussupported
- August 1975The Banqiao dam failuredocumented
- 8 January 1976Zhou Enlai diesdocumented
- 5 April 1976The Tiananmen incidentdocumented
- 28 July 1976The Tangshan earthquakedocumented
- 9 September 1976Mao Zedong diesdocumented
- 6 October 1976The Gang of Four arresteddocumented
- 1978Democracy Wall and scar literaturedocumented
- November 1978The household responsibility system begins at Xiaogangdocumented
- December 1978The Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committeedocumented
- 1979The one-child policydocumented
- 1 January 1979Diplomatic normalisation with the United Statesdocumented
- February 1979The Sino-Vietnamese Wardocumented
1980s7 EVENTS
- August 1980Special economic zones, Shenzhen among themdocumented
- June 1981The Resolution on Party Historydocumented
- December 1982The 1982 Constitutiondocumented
- 1983Anti-spiritual pollution, and the first Strike Hard campaigndocumented
- 1988River Elegy broadcastdocumented
- April 1989The 1989 protests and the June Fourth crackdowndocumented
- November 1989The Berlin Wall fallsdocumented
1990s9 EVENTS
- 26 December 1991The Soviet Union is dissolveddocumented
- January 1992Deng's southern tourdocumented
- October 1992Fourteenth Congress, the socialist market economydocumented
- 1994Tax-sharing reformdocumented
- 1994The Patriotic Education outlinedocumented
- February 1997Deng Xiaoping diesdocumented
- 1 July 1997Hong Kong returns to Chinese sovereigntydocumented
- 1998State enterprise restructuring and housing reformdocumented
- July 1999The suppression of Falun Gongdocumented
2000s4 EVENTS
2010s9 EVENTS
- November 2012Eighteenth Congress, Xi Jinping takes the leadershipdocumented
- 2013The anti-corruption campaign beginsdocumented
- April 2013Document Number Ninedocumented
- November 2013The Third Plenum reform decisiondocumented
- October 2015The one-child policy endsdocumented
- 2017Mass internment in Xinjiangdocumented
- March 2018Presidential term limits removeddocumented
- March 2018Xi Jinping Thought written into the state constitutiondocumented
- 2019The Hong Kong protestsdocumented
2020s18 EVENTS
- January 2020COVID-19 and the Wuhan lockdowndocumented
- June 2020The Hong Kong National Security Lawdocumented
- February 2021Absolute poverty declared eliminateddocumented
- November 2021The third historical resolutiondocumented
- October 2022Twentieth Congress, a third termdocumented
- November 2022The white paper protests and the end of zero-COVIDdocumented
- 2023Qin Gang removed as foreign ministerdocumented
- March 2023A third term as Presidentsupported
- July 2023The revised Counter-espionage Law takes effectdocumented
- January 2024Evergrande ordered to liquidatesupported
- 19 March 2024The Hong Kong Article 23 security lawdocumented
- September 2024The retirement age raiseddocumented
- March 2025He Weidong disappears from public viewdocumented
- 9 April 2025The tariff war with the United Statessupported
- 27 December 2025Justice Mission 2025 exercise around Taiwansupported
- 24 January 2026Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli under investigationsupported
- 9 February 2026Jimmy Lai sentenced to twenty yearssupported
- March 2026The Fifteenth Five-Year Plansupported