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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

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

• The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
  
• Destroy the Four Olds (1966)
  
• Foreign Embassies attacked (1967)
  
• First half of the Cultural Revolution ends (1968)
  
• Sino-Soviet clashes (1969)
  
• Ping Pong Diplomacy (1971)
  
• Nixon visits China (1972)
  
• The Gang of Four (1973)
  
• Death of Chiang Kai-shek (1975)
  
• Death of Mao Zedong (1976)
  

1966 -1976