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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

Objective chronological listing of significant events leading up to modern China.

1916

• January – National Protection Army advances into Sichuan and Guizhou provinces. Local troops rise up and join forces. Met by Yuan Shikai’s forces, the two armies fight to a stalemate in Sichuan.
  
• January - Guizhou province declares independence from Beijing.
  
• January – Yuan Shiaki postpones his ascendance to the throne.
  
• February – Guangxi province declares independence.
  
• March – Japan recognizes the anti-Yuan forces.
  
• March – Yuan Shikai falls ill and cancels plans to become emperor but would remain president.
  
• March – National Protection Army and Yuan Shikai’s forces agree to a ceasefire.
  
• April – Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces declare independence.
  
• May - Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hunan provinces declare independence.
  
• June - Yuan Shikai dies of illness.
  
• June – Li Yuanhong becomes president of the Beijing government.
  
• August - The National Assembly reconvenes..