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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

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

1924 - 1928

• First Nationalist Party Congress held in Guangzhou. (1924)
  
• Whampoa Military Academy established in Guangzhou. (1924)
  
• Death of Sun Yat-sen. (1925)
  
• Nationalist Party gains control of Guangdong province. (1925)
  
• Launch of the Northern Expedition. (1926)
  
• Purge of Communist members from the Nationalist Party. (1927)
  
• Formation of the Red Army. (1927)
  
• Nationalists resume the Northern Expedition. (1928)
  
• Republic of China nominally united under the Nationalist Party. (1928)