Note: *Starred items will be included on the time and space quiz

Late imperial China
*1368-1644: The Ming Dynasty. Rulers were Han Chinese.

*1644-1911: The Qing Dynasty. Rulers were Manchus:

• *1840-42: The Opium War. British force China to "open" on unequal terms.
• *1850-64: Taiping Rebellion. Christian-inspired uprising against the Qing
• 1898: Failed reforms
• 1900: fdBoxer rebellion against foreign influence
• 1905: Examination system "suspended"
• *1911: Republican Revolution (Xinhai Revolution)

1840-1911: The late Qing Dynasty

• 1862: Expansion of the treaty port system
• 1868: Meiji Restoration in Japan
• 1870s: The high point of "statecraft"
• 1895: Japan defeats China, takes Taiwan
• 1898: Emperor's reforms fail, conservatives take over
• 1900: Boxer rebellion brings foreign retribution

• 1912-1916: Presidency of Yuan Shikai
• 1916-27: Warlord Era
• 1919: The May Fourth demonstration
• 1921: Communist Party founded
• 1927-37: Guomindang unifies part of China; capital at Nanjing
• 1927: Communists defeated, retreat to the countryside
• 1931: Japanese take Manchuria
• 1935-36: The Long March
• *1937: Japanese invade North China, WWII begins here, not in Poland
• 1945: US atom bombs bring Japanese surrender
• *1945-49 Guomindang-Communist Civil War
• 1949: Guomindang defeated, retreats to Taiwan

• *1949: People's Republic founded
• *1947-52: Land reform
• *1954-56: Agriculture collectivized
• 1956: Industry socialized
• 1957: Anti-Rightist campaign
• *1958: Great Leap Forward and People's Communes
• *1959-61: Famine
• 1962: Retreat from communal to collective production
• *1966-69: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
• *1966-76: The "Cultural Revolution Decade"
• 1969-78: Youth to the countryside
• 1972: Nixon visits Beijing
• *1976: Mao Zedong dies
• *1978: Official reform policy announced

• *1979-82: Dismantling of collective agricultural production
• *1979: Beginning of the Birth Planning Program
• 1984: New constitution allows some freedom of religious practice
• 1985: Urban private enterprise allowed
• *Late 1980s: collapse of restrictions on migration to cities
• *1989: Student movement, culminating in Tian'anmen massacre
• 1993: China's Olympic bid fails
• 1994: Recentralization of finances
• 1990s: Rise of urban consumer society
• 1990s: Nationalism replaces revolution as national goal
• 1997-2003: Regime headed by General Secretary Jiang Zemin
• 1998: Major floods bring turn toward environmental protection
• 2001: China's Olympic bid succeeds
• 2002-2012: Regime headed by General Secretary Hu Jintao
• *2008: Tibetan uprisings, earthquake, Olympics. What a year!
• 2009: Uyghur uprisings
• 2012- Regime headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping