Today in China History (Part 2)
Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 553
1895-05-08 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1896-08-29 - Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1898-06-09 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
1898-06-16 - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1898-09-21 - China's empress-mother Ci Xi & emperor De Zong arrested
1898-09-21 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1900-01-02 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1900-02-16 - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1900-06-13 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1901-09-07 - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1902-02-01 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1906-11-21 - China prohibits opium trade
1907-06-14 - Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1908-12-02 - Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1908-12-02 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1910-02-25 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1910-03-10 - China ends slavery
1911-12-29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
1911-12-30 - Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
1912-01-01 - Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic
1912-01-01 - The Republic of China is established.
1912-02-12 - China adopts Gregorian calendar
1912-02-12 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
1912-04-02 - Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1912-04-04 - Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1912-08-25 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1912-12-06 - China votes for universal human rights
1913-04-08 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1913-04-26 - Sun Yet San calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China
1913-09-01 - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1913-10-10 - Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China
1914-02-21 - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1914-03-01 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1914-03-18 - White Wolf gang beats govt army in Jingdezhen China
1914-05-01 - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
1914-11-07 - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1915-01-15 - Japan claims economic control of China
1915-01-18 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1917-08-14 - China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1917-11-02 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1920-07-16 - China joins the League of Nations
1920-12-16 - 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 square miles and kills over 180,000 in Kansu China
1920-12-16 - The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
1921-03-13 - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1921-03-18 - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1921-07-01 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
1921-07-11 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1921-07-23 - Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1922-08-02 - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1923-05-31 - China & USSR exchange diplomats
1924-09-03 - Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1925-05-30 - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1926-03-06 - China asks for a seat in the Security council
1926-05-22 - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
1927-01-19 - British govt decides to send troops to China
1927-03-05 - 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1927-04-18 - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-govt in China
1927-05-18 - Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif
1927-05-22 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed
1927-05-27 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927-11-09 - Giant Panda discovered, China
1928-05-03 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1928-06-04 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1928-09-07 - Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC
1928-09-27 - US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1928-09-27 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1928-09-28 - US acknowledge Chinese govt of Chiang Kai-shek
1928-10-06 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1928-10-22 - China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
1929-05-19 - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
1929-07-17 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1929-08-11 - Russian-Chinese border fights
1931-08-12 - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
1931-11-07 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1931-12-09 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931-12-28 - Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
1932-02-04 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
1932-02-20 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1932-03-09 - Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1932-05-05 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1932-06-19 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1932-06-29 - USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1932-12-12 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1932-12-16 - Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed
1932-12-26 - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1933-07-01 - The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1933-09-25 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1934-10-18 - Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
1935-06-09 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1935-10-20 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1935-11-09 - Japan invades Shanghai China
1935-11-21 - 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1935-11-22 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, Calif, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1936-06-28 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1936-12-12 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1936-12-18 - Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in SF
1937-07-07 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1937-07-15 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1937-08-14 - China declares war on Japan
1937-08-25 - Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 292
1901-08-26 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1902-01-16 - Eric Liddell, China, English 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1924)
1902-02-10 - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
1902-09-23 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1903-01-06 - Boris Blacher, Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament)
1903-02-04 - Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
1904-06-18 - Keye Luke, Canton China, actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident)
1904-08-22 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)
1904-10-12 - Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
1904-11-25 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
1905-07-19 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1906-02-07 - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1906-08-05 - John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
1907-12-05 - Lin Piau, Chinese politician
1908-03-30 - Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler
1908-05-07 - Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1908-05-26 - Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen)
1910-03-18 - Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
1912-12-04 - Jack Walsh, NSW/Leicestershire cricket china bowler (didn't rep Aust)
1913-10-20 - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam (1949-55)
1915-06-20 - Terence Young, Shanghai China, director (Dr No, Thunderball)
1917-01-06 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
1917-04-26 - I[eoh] M[ing] Pei, Canton, China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
1917-04-26 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1919-02-06 - Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
1919-03-28 - Jacob Avshalomov, Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)
1919-11-19 - George Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1920-04-01 - Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun)
1920-09-09 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1920-10-04 - George Tribe, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler, Northants)
1921-02-13 - Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
1922-09-22 - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1923-06-29 - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1923-12-08 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
1924-02-08 - Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
1924-06-06 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
1924-09-13 - Scott Brady, Bkln NY, actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar)
1925-09-23 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1926-08-17 - Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician
1926-09-27 - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1927-06-10 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1928-10-01 - Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1930-02-11 - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
1930-06-29 - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1930-11-15 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World)
1931-07-22 - Perry Lopez, NYC, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4)
1931-07-28 - Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm chinaman bowler (60's)
1932-10-26 - Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1933-06-02 - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1933-08-18 - Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
1934-08-14 - Robin McLaren, British ambassador (China)
1934-09-29 - Lindsay Kline, cricketer (Australian chinaman bowler Hat-trick 1957)
1934-11-23 - Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter (Chinatown)
1935-11-27 - Al Jackson Jr, Memphis Tn, drummer (Booker T & MGs-Chinese Checkers)
1936-02-12 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident
1936-09-20 - Dany Carrel, Touraine Indo-china, actress (Passionate Summer)
1937-02-05 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)
1937-10-09 - Brian Blessed, English actor (King Arthur, High Road to China)
1937-11-30 - Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
1938-06-28 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938-11-22 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1940-01-04 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1941-01-14 - [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway, Bascom Fl, actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde)
1941-10-10 - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor
1941-12-02 - Paul C W Chu, China, physicist (superconductivity)
1942-02-01 - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
1942-12-21 - Hu Jintao, Chinese president
1943-01-14 - Shannon Lucid, Shanghai China, astronaut (STS 51G, 34, 43, 58, 76/79)
1944-07-31 - Sherry Lansing, Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1944-08-19 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1944-12-21 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
1945-09-27 - Misha Dichter, Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1946-05-17 - Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946-06-03 - Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1947-01-24 - Giorgio Chinaglia, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos)
1947-02-15 - John Adams, Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
1947-03-28 - Bruce Gilbert, producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond)
1948-09-10 - Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
1949-04-04 - Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician
1949-09-25 - Inshan Ali, cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1950-07-13 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
1950-09-02 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951-11-14 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
1952-02-04 - Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1952-08-12 - Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
1953-04-23 - James Russo, NYC, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
1953-07-21 - Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
1955-02-17 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1955-10-07 - Yo-Yo Ma, Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist
1955-11-30 - Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
1956-03-13 - Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1957-01-14 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
1958-07-17 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1958-11-16 - Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach)
1959-04-17 - Elizabeth Lindsey, actress (China Beach)
1960-01-03 - Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor)
1960-12-22 - Wakin Chau, Chinese singer
1961-03-21 - Wei Wang, Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1961-04-26 - Joan Chen, [Chen Chong], Shanghai China, actress (Heaven & Earth)
1962-05-10 - Garry Daley, keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 155 of 155
1976-01-08 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1976-03-26 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1976-09-09 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1978-06-12 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1979-07-04 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1981-03-27 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1982-02-13 - Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17
1982-06-23 - Vincent Chin, Chinese-American hate crime victim (b. 1955)
1983-11-20 - Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1986-08-29 - Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indies 1933-35, "chinaman"), dies
1986-10-22 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987-12-27 - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1988-05-10 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989-04-15 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1990-11-19 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1991-05-14 - Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
1992-03-16 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1992-06-21 - Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies
1992-07-16 - Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW & Australian chinaman bowler), dies
1992-08-03 - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
1992-12-30 - Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
1993-03-12 - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1993-07-11 - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993-08-17 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (b. 1920)
1993-11-24 - Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter
1994-02-28 - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
1994-02-28 - Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
1994-08-23 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994-12-11 - Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979), dies
1995-04-10 - Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1997-02-16 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
1997-02-19 - Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997-04-26 - Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies
2001-09-12 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2001-10-15 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
2003-03-17 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2003-10-23 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1897)
2004-12-03 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005-01-03 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005-01-17 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2005-04-24 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2005-08-18 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2005-10-17 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005-10-24 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
2006-02-24 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006-10-13 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
2006-12-20 - Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer
2007-01-05 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2007-01-15 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007-04-20 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
2007-04-29 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2007-06-02 - Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier
2007-07-10 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China (b. 1944)
2007-08-08 - Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2008-08-20 - Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in 1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921)
