PRC/ROC
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| Paramount Leader | Events | Other people/events | President | Events | Other people/events | ||
| 1949 | Mao Zedong (Mao Zedong Thought) |
Founding of the People's Republic of China | Li Tsung-jen | Kuomintang retreats to Taiwan Area | White Terror | ||
| 1950 | Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River, Landing Operation on Hainan Island | Korean War Canidrome massacre |
Chiang Kai-shek | ||||
| 1951 | Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet | ||||||
| 1952 | Three-anti/five-anti campaigns | ||||||
| 1953 | Five Year Plan | ||||||
| 1956 | Hundred Flowers campaign | ||||||
| 1957 | Anti-Rightist Movement | Asian Flu | |||||
| 1958 | Great Leap Forward | ||||||
| 1959 | Great sparrow campaign causes famine Three Years of Natural Disasters begins |
Tibetan uprising | |||||
| 1960 | Sino-Soviet split | ||||||
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| 1962 | Sino-Indian War | ||||||
| 1964 | Destruction of Four Olds State Council pushed for Simplified Chinese character in the mainland |
First PRC atomic bomb detonation, 596 nuclear test | Taiwan continues the use of Traditional Chinese characters | ||||
| 1965 | Project National Glory | ||||||
| 1966 | Cultural Revolution Three-Self Patriotic Movement Down to the Countryside Movement |
The Little Red Book | Chinese Cultural Renaissance | ||||
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| 1968 | Deng Pufang handicap incident | ||||||
| 1969 | Zhenbao Island Sino-Soviet border conflict | Beijing Subway | |||||
| 1970 | Long March rocket, first satellite launch | ||||||
| 1971 | Henry Kissinger visits Beijing | UN resolution 2758, PRC replace ROC as UN representative | |||||
| 1972 | Shanghai Communiqué Richard Nixon visits China |
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| 1974 | Battle of the Paracel Islands | ||||||
| 1975 | Four Modernizations | Yen Chia-kan | |||||
| 1976 | Hua Guofeng (Two Whatevers) |
Tiananmen incident following the death of Zhou Enlai The Great Tangshan earthquake Death of Mao Zedong |
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| 1977 | Beijing Spring | ||||||
| 1978 | Deng Xiaoping (Deng Xiaoping Theory) |
Chinese economic reforms | Democracy Wall Movement | Chiang Ching-kuo | |||
| 1979 | One-child policy Four cardinal principles Sino-American relations |
Border-war with Vietnam | Taiwan Relations Act passed by United States Congress | Kaohsiung Incident | |||
| 1980 | Special Economic Zones | Trial of Gang of Four |
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| 1984 | Margaret Thatcher in China, signs Sino-British Joint Declaration | ||||||
| 1987 | Lifting of Martial Law | ||||||
| 1988 | Lee Teng-hui | ||||||
| 1989 | Tiananmen Square protests | PRC declares Martial law on Lhasa, Tibet | Cheng Nan-jung self-immolation | ||||
| 1990 | Wild Lily student movement | ||||||
| 1991 | First McDonald's restaurant in Beijing | Democratic Progressive Party represents Taiwanese Independence |
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| 1992 | Jiang Zemin (Three Represents) |
1992 Consensus | |||||
| 1996 | Karamay fire incident | Third Taiwan Strait Crisis | |||||
| 1997 | Hong Kong handover, becomes a Special Administrative Region | Death of Deng Xiaoping | |||||
| 1998 | Great Firewall of China | Banning of China Democracy Party | |||||
| 1999 | Macau handover NATO bombing of embassy |
Falun Gong banned by the PRC government | Resolution on Taiwan's Future | ||||
| 2000 | The PRC passes Japan as the country with which the USA has the largest trade deficit | Chen Shui-bian | DDP ended Kuomintang rule in the 2000 ROC election | Four Noes and One Without | |||
| 2001 | Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident Accession to World Trade Organization |
Hainan Island incident | |||||
| 2002 | Accession to World Trade Organization | ||||||
| 2003 | SARS outbreak | Shenzhou 5, PRC's first manned space mission | SARS outbreak | ||||
| 2004 | Hu Jintao (Scientific Development Concept) |
Jiang Zemin retires from his post as Chairman of the Central Military Commission | 3-19 shooting incident | ||||
| 2005 | Anti-Secession law | Jilin Chemical plant explosions Anti-Japanese history revisionism |
Pan-Blue visit | ||||
| 2006 | Structural work finished in the Three Gorges Dam | Renaming of "Chiang Kai-shek Airport" to "Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport" | |||||
| 2007 | Head of SFDA Zheng Xiaoyu executed Chang'e 1 of Lunar Exploration Program |
Chinese slave scandal Reincarnation application |
Renaming "Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall" to "National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall" | ||||
| 2008 | 2008 Summer Olympics/2008 Summer Paralympics Hangzhou Bay Bridge opens Shenzhou 7 first spacewalk |
Early winter storms Tibetan unrest Sichuan earthquake Milk scandal |
Ma Ying-jeou | Cross-strait charter 1025 demonstration Second Chen-Chiang summit Wild Strawberry student movement |
Lien Chen & Hu Jintao at APEC Peru | ||
| 2009 | Urumqi riots 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China |
Typhoon Morakot | |||||
| 2010 | 2010 Yushu earthquake 2010 Shanghai World Expo |
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| 2011 | Protests of Wukan | 100th Anniversary of the Republic of China | |||||
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