This is a timeline of the History of the Republic of China on mainland China (1912–1949).
For the timeline of the History of the Republic of China on Taiwan (1945–present), see Timeline of Taiwanese history.
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“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”
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Or some frail china jarreceive a flaw,
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,”
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“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
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