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2013 Event - China's CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China, with Li Yuanchao named as Vice President

2013 Event - In China, more than 9,000 pigs were found rotting in the Huangpu river, threatening to contaminate Shanghai's drinking supply; the government said the water quality in the city tested as normal

2013 Event - In China, Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the National People's Congress announcing the country's 2013 goal of a 7.5% growth rate in GDP

2013 Event - According to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012 Japan surpassed China as the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities

2013 Event - Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials

2013 Event - The latest James Bond film, 'Skyfall', opens in China; fans criticize officials for censoring portions of the movie, which were filmed in Shanghai

2013 Event - Scientist in China discover an ancient human fossil in a cave near Beijing; the 40,000 year-old leg bone shows it was related to the ancestors of present-day Asians and Native Americans

2012 Event - Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea

2012 Event - Vietnam accuses China of cutting seismic survey cables from territorial waters in the South China, disputed by Vietnam, the Philippines Malaysia, Taiwan, and Brunei

2012 Event - In Tibet, a Tibetan teenager dies of self-immolation in Gansu, China; this is the seventh incident this week and the 70th self-immolation since 2009

2012 Event - After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province

2012 Event - Amid tension with China, Keen Sword, the biennial naval training exercise between the United States and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, takes place off the shore of Okinawa

2012 Event - Japanese automakers announce plans to cut output in China; they announce plans to suspend operations in the country until after National Day

2012 Event - Vice foreign minister to Japan, Chikao Kawai, is sent to China to help improve the status of relations between the two countries

2012 Event - The Japanese Coast Guard reports six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are sighted near the disputed Senkaku Islands; China claims the 'two surveillance ship fleets' are in waters around the islands for purposes of 'patrols and law enforcement'

2012 Event - Only two days after being named to his new post, Shinichi Nishimiya, the newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China is hospitalized after collapsing in Tokyo

2012 Event - China's President, Hu Jintao, officially receives Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who came to the country for cooperation talks and in-depth discussion

2012 Event - The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Jang Song-thank, meets Hu Jintao, the President of China

2012 Event - Typhoon Haikui, expected to make landfall in Zhejiang early tonight or early tomorrow, prompts the People's Republic of China to evacuate 200,000 people form Shanghai

2012 Event - In China, thousands protest plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong school, labeling it Chines propaganda

2012 Event - The People's Republic of China economic growth rate experiences to its lowest level in three years, 7.6 per cent

2012 Event - On the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, China blocks internet access to terms related to the event

2012 Event - The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing

2012 Event - In China, violent rainfalls and flooding in the Hunan Province destroy a bridge and 3,500 homes, causing Pinhjiang County to evacuate 28,000 people

2012 Event - A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China

2012 Event - Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident, requests help from the U.S. Congress in his attempt to flee China with his family

2012 Event - China allows the yuan to fluctuate up to 1% from 0.5%, in trading against the U.S. dollar

2012 Event - The U.S., Russia and China, begin talks about Iran's nuclear program

2012 Event - In New Delhi, India, leaders of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India meet for the 2012 BRICS summit

2012 Event - China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners

2012 Event - China's Premier Wen Jiabao blames the Dalai Lama for ongoing self-immolations by Tibetan monks

2012 Event - A section of China's high-speed railway collapses after it underwent test runs; the collapse may have resulted from heavy rains

2012 Event - In 2012, the People's Republic of China will increase its defense spending by 11.2 per cent

2012 Event - China tightens its control of monasteries following deadly protests in Tibet

2012 Event - India and China agree to build a functional plan to address border issues

2011 Event - Protestors demonstrating against the construction of a power plant in Haimen, southern China, are fired upon with teargas and arrested

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, 45 trapped coal miners are pulled to the surface in Sanmenxia; 8 miners died

2011 Event - China makes its first orbital docking as its unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module

2011 Event - China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project

2011 Event - The Tiangong 1 space laboratory announces it has scheduled to launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu Province

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Public Security arrests over 2,000 people in an effort to crackdown on gang-related crime

2011 Event - Japan's National Police Agency discloses that 90% of cyberattacks on its web site came from IP addresses in the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - Typhoon Muifa approaches Japan's island of Okinawa; the typhoon is expected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit China in recent years

2011 Event - U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte sets a new world record for the 200-meter individual medley, winning gold at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, People's Republic of China

2011 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C. despite a warning from the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - In China, a fire in a coal mine in Shandong Province leaves at least 36 people trapped underground

2011 Event - People's Republic of China officials warn that the the 2011 China floods will likely raise the price of food

2011 Event - For the third straight week, hundreds of Vietnamese citizens protest outside China's embassy in Hanoi against disputed areas in the South China Sea

2011 Event - In Vietnam, hundreds demonstrate against Chinese naval operations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea

2011 Event - Li Na becomes the first Asian tennis player to win a major title winning the 2011 French Open; Li Na is from the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - The oldest panda in the world, Ming Ming, dies at the age of 34 in Guangdong, China

2011 Event - April exports for the People's Republic of China reach an all-time monthly hight of $155.69 billion

2011 Event - A near riot breaks out at the Beijing Apple Store as the Apple iPad2 goes on sale in the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - China releases two prominent human rights lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Jiang Tianyong

2011 Event - As part of a crackdown on dissent in China, 169 Chinese Christians attempting to hold an outdoor prayer session were detained, then released

2011 Event - Reports claim that China has successfully modified cows to produce 'human milk'

2011 Event - Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years

2011 Event - At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency

2011 Event - In China, the yuan reaches a record level against the U.S. dollar

2011 Event - China reports plans to increase its 2011 defense spending by 12.7%

2011 Event - In China, Jia Qinglin, senior leader of the People's Republic of China, calls for controls over Tibetan Buddhism and a renewed struggle against the Dalai Lama

2011 Event - In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists

2011 Event - Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9%

2011 Event - China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected

2011 Event - The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China

2011 Event - China announces it may station troops in North Korea to protect its citizens and investment projects

2011 Event - China places new controls on text messages sent on mobile phones containing references to democracy, human rights and corruption

2010 Event - The internet population in China reaches 450 million

2010 Event - China and South Korea plan to hold defense talks in February 2011 concerning growing regional tension on the Korean Peninsula

2010 Event - In China, a 2,400 ear-old pot of soup is discovered near the country's ancient capital of Xi'an

2010 Event - China's inflation rate reaches 5.1%, a 28-month high

2010 Event - China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it

2010 Event - China announces its plan to use its own uranium resources to meet growing demands for nuclear power

2010 Event - According to China, a report submitted to the U.N. Security Council on violation of the Darfur weapons embargo is ridden with flaws and vaguely worded

2010 Event - David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain, embarks on an official visit aimed at building closer economic ties to the People's Republic of China

2010 Event - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao releases pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang e-2 lunar mission

2010 Event - The People's Republic of China announces it is taking its first census in ten years

2010 Event - American Alexandria Mills, age 18, wins the 60th Miss World pageant in China

2010 Event - In a dispute over the use of rare earth metals, China cancels a meeting with Japan and South Korea

2010 Event - The U.S. government determines China is helping Iran bypass U.N. sanctions and is helping them improve their missile technology and develop nuclear weapons

2010 Event - China's largest fair, Canton Fair, opens and is closely watched as it is the barometer of the country's trade and economic development

2010 Event - In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech

2010 Event - Delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China for the 60th Miss World 2010 pageant

2010 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives imposes trade sanctions against China, which is believed to be undervaluing the yuan

2010 Event - China leads an investigation into its commercial pilots upon learning over 200 of them falsified their resumes

2010 Event - In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river

2010 Event - China commemorates victims of the Zhouqu landslide with a day of mourning

2010 Event - In Zhouqu, China, new landslides leave 29 people dead and 10,500 trapped

2010 Event - Ongoing flooding and landslides in Gansu Province, China, kill 127 people and result in 2,000 missing

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - South Korea develops a long-range cruise missile reportedly capable of striking North Korea, Japan, Russia and China

2010 Event - Google's internet content provider license is renewed by China; the company is allowed to continue operating in the country

2010 Event - China's Premier, Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and declares the need for better treatment of the country's migrant workers

2010 Event - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal with over 500,000 pilgrims attending from 35 nations including Vietnam, China and India

2010 Event - President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit

2010 Event - 60 countries are invited to participate in Iran's two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran April 17 - 18; China says it will attend

2010 Event - Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week

2010 Event - Tengzhong's bid to purchase Hummer from General Motors is rejected by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

2010 Event - The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced foreign direct investment into China has risen for the sixth consecutive month, up $8.3 billion year-on-year

2010 Event - The Queen Mary 2 makes her first port call in China at the Port of Shanghai, since her maiden voyage in 2004

2010 Event - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person

2010 Event - One year after thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk, new traces of melamine in milk products is discovered in China

2010 Event - China begins text message surveillance, blocking customers from the country's two largest operators for lewd messages

2010 Event - The People's Republic of China 2009 Mercedes-Benz sales rose 77%

2010 Event - China surpasses Germany, becoming the. world's largest exporter

2009 Event - A new kind of flying reptile fossil, Darwinopterus, lived over 160 million years ago, is found in China

2009 Event - Typhoon Morakat approaches southeastern China, over one million people are evacuated

2008 Event - 2008 Summer Olympics come to a close in Beijing, China

2008 Event - 2008 Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, China

2008 Event - 8.0 Earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000

2005 Event - Qinghai-Tibet Railway is completed in China

2003 Event - China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

2002 Event - China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure

2002 Event - China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112

2002 Event - Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

2001 Death - Victor Wong, actor/newscaster, Big Trouble in Little China, dies at 74

1999 Event - Portugal returns Macau to China

1999 Event - During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China

1997 Event - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China

1997 Event - Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China

1997 Event - U.K. returns Hong Kong to China

1997 Event - Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful

1997 Death - Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies

1997 Event - Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)

1996 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1995 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1995 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1995 Death - Chen Yun, VPM of China 1949 - 1975, 1979 - 1980, dies

1995 Event - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

1994 Death - Yao Yilin, Vice Prime Minister of China 1979, dies

1994 Event - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed

1994 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1994 Event - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed

1994 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1994 Event - Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed

1994 Event - Tornado and hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed

1994 Death - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86

1993 Event - Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed

1993 Death - Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter

1993 Event - Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed

1993 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1993 Event - Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed

1993 Death - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88

1993 Death - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies

1993 Event - Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79

1992 Death - Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave U.S., dies at 23

1992 Event - Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141

1992 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1992 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1992 Event - McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China

1992 Death - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies

1991 Event - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei

1991 Event - Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal

1990 Event - Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ")

1990 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1990 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1990 Event - 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China

1990 Event - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)

1989 Event - Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty

1989 Event - China declares martial law in Beijing

1989 Event - Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China

1989 Event - Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China

1989 Event - 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China

1989 Event - Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts

1988 Event - Anti African student rebellion in China PR

1988 Event - China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938

1988 Event - 900 die as earthquake hits China

1988 Event - China announces a herbal male contraceptive

1988 Event - Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

1988 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1988 Event - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board

1987 Event - Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR

1987 Event - Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)

1987 Event - China's rudimentary civil code in effect

1985 Event - Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China

1985 Event - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1985 Event - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China

1984 Event - China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty

1984 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1984 Event - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Event - Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Event - Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

1984 Event - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)

1984 Event - President Reagan visits China

1984 Event - China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations

1983 Death - Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest

1983 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1983 Event - Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"

1983 Event - Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14

1983 Event - Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR

1983 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1983 Event - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life

1982 Event - China adopts its constitution

1982 Event - U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea

1982 Event - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

1982 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1982 Death - Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17

1981 Event - Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Event - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy

1981 Event - Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR

1981 Event - China throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan

1980 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1980 Event - China launch 1st intercontinental rocket

1979 Event - International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China

1979 Event - China performs nuclear test

1979 Event - People's Republic of China joins IOC

1979 Event - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

1979 Event - China invades Vietnam

1979 Birthday - Zhang Ziyi, born in Beijing, China, actress, internationally successful film star, appeared in 'Hero', 'Purple Butterfly', 'House of Flying Daggars', 'The Horsemen', 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

1979 Event - U.S. and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations

1978 Event - Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR

1978 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1978 Event - China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension

1978 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1978 Event - China and Japan sign peace treaty

1978 Event - Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR

1978 Event - European market and China signs trade agreement

1978 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1978 Event - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens

1977 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1976 Birthday - Chen Lu, China, figure skater, Olympics-Bronze-94

1976 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1976 Event - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader

1976 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1976 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1976 Event - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die

1976 Event - 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake

1976 Event - 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)

1976 Event - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

1976 Event - Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR

1976 Death - Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78

1976 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1975 Event - U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China

1975 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1975 Event - 500 drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China's West River

1973 Event - 1st U.S. - China basketball game, U.S. collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61

1973 Event - U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington D.C.

1973 Birthday - Fang Li, Hunan China, tennis star, 1991 Futures-Bilbao-ESP

1972 Birthday - Kevin Han, Shanghai China, U.S. badminton player 1996 Olympics

1972 Event - U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China

1972 Event - Japan and People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations

1972 Event - Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations

1972 Event - Netherlands and China exchange ambassadors

1972 Event - 2 giants pandas arrive in U.S., from China

1972 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1972 Event - President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China

1972 Event - Richard Nixon becomes 1st U.S. president to visit China

1972 Event - President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China

1972 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1971 Event - China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council

1971 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1971 Event - U.S. table tennis team arrived in China

1971 Event - Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations

1971 Event - General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR

1971 Event - U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China

1971 Event - President Nixon announces he would visit China

1971 Event - Henry Kissinger visits China PR

1971 Event - U.S. ends ban on China trade

1971 Event - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

1971 Event - U.S. table tennis team arrives in China PR

1971 Birthday - Li Chen, born in Changsha China, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Austin Texas

1971 Birthday - Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Canberra AUS

1971 Birthday - China Slick, rocker, daughter of Grace Slick

1970 Event - U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR

1970 Event - Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway

1970 Event - China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"

1969 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1969 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1969 Event - Over 1000 mi flooded on Shantung Province China

1969 Birthday - Amy Feng, born in Tianjin, China, U.S. table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1968 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1968 Event - China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji

1967 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1967 Death - Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61

1967 Event - China reports downing of 2 U.S. bombers

1967 Death - Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76

1966 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1966 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1966 Birthday - Bai Ling, born in Chengdu, China, American actress, appeared in films, 'The Crow', 'The Beautiful Country', 'Shanghai Baby'

1966 Event - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1966 Event - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"

1966 Birthday - Loretta Lee, Lee Lai Chan, China, actress, Happy Ghost

1965 Birthday - Gong Li, born in Shenyang, China, actress, appeared in director Zhang Yimou's film, Ju Dhou, Red Sorghum, received Golden Rooster award

1965 Event - General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR

1965 Event - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

1965 Event - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1964 Event - China becomes world's 5th nuclear power

1964 Birthday - Barbara Chiu, born in Canton, China, Canada table tennis player, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Zeng Jinlian, born in Hunan, China, became tallest woman known, 2.46 m, 8'1"

1963 Birthday - David Zhuang, born in China, U.S. table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1963 Birthday - Lily Yip, Canton China, U.S. table tennis player, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1963 Birthday - Si-An Deng, born in Shanghai, China, Canadian badminton player 1996 Olympics

1963 Birthday - Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts

1963 Birthday - Hu Na, born in Taipei, Republic of China, professional tennis player, defected from the People's Republic of the United State to the United States in 1982

1963 Birthday - Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1962 Birthday - Suzee Pai, born in Toledo, Ohio, actress, Big Trouble in Little China

1962 Death - Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54

1962 Birthday - Eddie Lundon, rocker, China Crisis-Christian

1961 Event - China and Nepal sign treaty

1961 Birthday - Andy Lau, born in Hong Kong, China, singer, film actor, producer, Cantopop genre, appeared in over 100 films, 300 TVB television mini-series

1961 Birthday - Joan Chen, born in Shanghai, China, actress, Heaven and Earth

1961 Birthday - Wei Wang, born in Beijing, China, U.S. table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1961 Event - China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor

1960 Event - U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China

1960 Event - Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600

1960 Birthday - Joan Chen, Chen Chung, Shanghai China, actress, Last Emperor

1959 Event - Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR

1959 Birthday - Elizabeth Lindsey, actress, China Beach

1959 Event - Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India

1959 Event - 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama

1958 Birthday - Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress, China Beach

1958 Event - China resumes fire on Quemoi and Matsoe

1958 Event - Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China

1956 Event - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

1956 Birthday - David Caruso, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, producer, known for television series, 'CSI: Miami', appeared in films, 'First Blood', 'China Girl', 'An Officer and a Gentleman'

1955 Birthday - Chow Yun-Fat, born in Lamma Island, China, actor, appeared in 'The Killer', 'A Better Tomorrow', 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

1954 Event - Nationalist China and U.S. sign dike agreement

1954 Event - China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy

1954 Event - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China

1954 Event - Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China

1953 Event - U.S. Senate rejects China membership to U.N.

1953 Birthday - James Russo, born in New York City, actor, My Own Private Idaho, China Girl

1951 Event - United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1951 Event - China refuses cease-fire in Korea

1950 Event - U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb

1950 Event - China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River

1950 Event - Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea

1950 Event - U.N. reject membership of China's People Republic

1950 Event - Dutch Prime Minister Malan recognizes South Africa but not China PR

1950 Event - New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China

1950 Event - Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island

1950 Event - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China

1950 Event - Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa

1950 Event - General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1950 Event - U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty

1950 Event - U.S. recalls all consular officials from China

1950 Event - Britain recognizes Communist government of China

1950 Event - Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China

1949 Event - India recognizes People's Republic of China

1949 Event - Burma recognizes People's Republic of China

1949 Event - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa

1949 Event - U.S.S.R. recognizes People's Republic of China

1949 Event - People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)

1949 Event - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa

1949 Event - Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China

1949 Event - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives

1949 Event - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)

1949 Event - Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China

1948 Event - SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die

1948 Event - Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100

1948 Event - China's Red army occupies Chinchov

1948 Event - Communist form North China People's Republic

1948 Event - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1947 Event - 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China

1947 Birthday - Bruce Gilbert, producer, China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond

1947 Birthday - Alessandro Haber, actor, China is Near

1946 Death - Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies

1946 Event - Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China

1946 Birthday - Earl of Cromer, managing director, Inchcape, China, Ltd

1945 Event - General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China

1945 Birthday - Misha Dichter, Shanghai China, pianist, Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966

1945 Event - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1945 Event - Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender

1945 Event - General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1944 Death - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35), dies

1944 Birthday - Sherry Lansing, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, China Syndrome, Black Rain

1944 Event - Japanese troops conquer Changsha China

1944 Birthday - Annette Lu, bon in Taoyuan Formosa, Taiwanese politician, feminist activist, member, Democratic Progressive Party, former Vice President of the Republic of China

1944 Event - Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China

1944 Event - 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"

1943 Event - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China

1943 Event - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

1943 Birthday - Shannon Lucid, born in Shanghai, China, astronaut, STS-51G, 34, 43, 58, 76/79

1943 Event - U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China

1941 Event - China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 Birthday - Paul C. W. Chu, China, physicist, superconductivity

1941 Birthday - Laurence Henry Tribe, Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor

1938 Event - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China

1938 Event - Japan declares war on China

1937 Event - Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations)

1937 Birthday - Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China

1937 Event - China declares war on Japan

1937 Event - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China

1936 Event - Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to U.S. from China, arrives in SF

1935 Event - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight

1935 Event - 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1935 Event - Japan invades Shanghai China

1935 Event - Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China

1934 Birthday - Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000

1934 Birthday - Robin McLaren, British ambassador, China

1933 Event - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China

1933 Birthday - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orchestra leader, Tony Orlando, Marie

1932 Event - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China

1932 Event - Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed

1932 Event - U.S.S.R. and China resume diplomatic relations

1932 Event - U.S.S.R. and China sign no attack treaty

1932 Event - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR

1932 Event - Japan and China sign a peace treaty

1932 Birthday - King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn'

1932 Event - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China

1931 Event - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China

1930 Birthday - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author, Drowned World

1929 Death - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China), dies

1929 Event - U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China

1929 Event - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government

1928 Event - China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants

1928 Event - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China

1927 Event - Giant Panda discovered, China

1927 Event - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed

1927 Event - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China

1927 Event - 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property

1927 Event - British government decides to send troops to China

1926 Birthday - Jayne Meadows, Wu Chang China, Mrs. Steve Allen, actress, Dark Delusion

1926 Event - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China

1926 Event - China asks for a seat in the Security council

1926 Death - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58

1924 Birthday - Scott Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar

1924 Event - Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai

1924 Birthday - Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress, Alice-Honeymooners

1923 Birthday - Chou Wen-Chung, born in Cheefoo, China, composer, Mode of Shang

1923 Event - China and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats

1922 Birthday - Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957

1922 Event - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die

1921 Event - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1921 Event - Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000

1921 Event - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1920 Event - 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die

1920 Event - China joins the League of Nations

1920 Birthday - Ruth Graham, born in China, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, author, poet, writer, philanthropist

1920 Birthday - Toshiro Mifune, born in Tsing-tao, China, writer and actor, Shogun

1919 Birthday - George Fenneman, born in in Peking, China, TV announcer, 'You Bet Your Life'

1919 Birthday - Jacob Avshalomov, born in Tsingtao, China, composer, Sinfonietta, The Oregon

1919 Birthday - Louis Heren, journalist and writer, China's Three Thousand Years

1917 Event - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; U.S. recognizes Japan's privileges in China

1917 Event - China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I

1917 Birthday - I. M. Pei, born in Canton, China, architect, 1961 Brunner Prize

1916 Death - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56

1915 Birthday - Terence Young, born in Shanghai, China, director, Dr. No, Thunderball

1915 Event - Japan claims economic control of China

1914 Event - China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification

1914 Event - White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China

1914 Event - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China

1913 Event - Yuan Shikai installed as 1st president of China

1913 Event - Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China

1913 Event - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)

1912 Event - China votes for universal human rights

1912 Birthday - Jack Walsh, NSW/Leicestershire cricket china bowler, didn't rep Australia

1912 Event - Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China

1912 Event - China adopts Gregorian calendar

1912 Event - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates

1911 Event - Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China

1910 Birthday - Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature

1910 Birthday - Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren

1910 Event - China ends slavery

1908 Event - Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3

1908 Death - Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies

1908 Death - Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73

1908 Death - Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies

1908 Birthday - Robert Morley, England, actor, High Road to China, African Queen

1906 Event - China prohibits opium trade

1905 Birthday - Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China

1904 Birthday - Keye Luke, born in Canton, China, actor, Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident

1903 Birthday - Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N

1903 Birthday - Boris Blacher, born in Newchwang, China, German composer, Orchester-Ornament

1902 Birthday - Jeno Takacs, born in Cinfalva, Hungary, composer, studied with Joseph Marx, Paul Weigarten, professor of piano, composition at University of Manila in the Philippines, gave concerts in China, Japan, Hong Kong

1902 Birthday - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor

1902 Event - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet

1902 Birthday - Eric Liddell, China, English 400m runner 1924 Olympics gold

1901 Event - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China

1901 Death - Chi-hsui, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded

1901 Death - Hsu Cheng-yu, during Boxer Rebellion in China, beheaded

1900 Event - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians

1899 Birthday - Marcel Dalio, Israel Blauschild, Paris, France, actor, China Gate

1898 Event - China's empress-mother Ci Xi and emperor De Zong arrested

1898 Event - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei

1898 Event - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

1898 Birthday - Henry R. Luce, born in Tengchow, China, publisher, Time, Fortune, Life

1897 Birthday - Rewi Alley, New Zealand, writer, Americans in China

1895 Birthday - Lin Yutang, born in China, writer, 'My Country and My People'

1895 Event - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki

1895 Birthday - Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO

1894 Event - 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap)

1894 Event - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang

1894 Event - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

1894 Event - U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S.

1893 Birthday - Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, Prime Minister of China PR, 1949 - 1976

1892 Birthday - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, born in China, author, Good Earth-Nobel 1938

1890 Birthday - Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter, Road to Bali, China

1890 Birthday - Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain and China

1887 Birthday - Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, President of Nationalist China

1887 Event - Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million

1886 Event - China takes British protectorate of Burma

1884 Birthday - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China, 1932-35

1883 Birthday - Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general, China

1878 Birthday - Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, China, WW II

1868 Birthday - Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German general, China

1868 Event - Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China

1867 Birthday - Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet, China

1866 Birthday - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China, ROC and PRC, traditional

1865 Birthday - Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat, China

1863 Birthday - Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter

1858 Event - Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia

1852 Birthday - Joseph J C Joffre, French Field Marshal, Indo China, Marne

1845 Event - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton, China

1842 Event - Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war

1841 Event - China cedes Hong Kong to British

1839 Event - British capture Hong Kong from China

1837 Event - Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores

1834 Death - Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies

1833 Birthday - Charles George Gordon, London, general, China, Khartoum

1817 Birthday - Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China

1790 Event - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

1784 Event - 1st U.S. ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York

1689 Event - China and Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul)

1678 Death - Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them

1644 Event - Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking

1644 Death - Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide

1610 Death - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies

1556 Event - Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000

1556 Event - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China

1552 Birthday - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary, China

1290 Event - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000

1280 Event - Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

1228 Event - Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China

1200 Event - In China, sunglasses are invented

1036 Birthday - Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher

976 Death - T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies

808 Death - P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China

765 Event - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China

185 Event - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)













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