• British victory at the Battle of Waterloo. (1815)
  
• First Opium War. (1840)
  
• Second Opium War. (1858)
  
• Meiji Restoration in Japan. (1868)
  
• First Sino-Japanese War. (1894)
  
• Hundred Days' Reform. (1898)
  
• Founding of the Republic of China. (1911)
  
• Yuan Shikai attempts to become emperor.(1912-1916)
  
• First World War. (1814-1818)
  
• May Fourth movement for science and democracy. (1919)
• Civil war among warlords. (1920-1923)
  
• Northern Expedition and establishment of Nationalist China. (1924-1928)
  
• Civil wars. (1929-1936)
  
• Second Sino-Japanese War. (1937-1945)
  
• Second World War. (1939-1945)
• Civil war between Nationalists and Communists. (1945-1949)
  
• Land reform in Taiwan. (1949)
  
• Founding of the People’s Republic of China. (1949)
  
• Korean War. (1950-1953)
  
• Great Leap Forward. (1958-1961)
  
• Cultural Revolution. (1966-1976)
• Economic reform and the Four Modernizations. (1978)
• Democratic elections in Taiwan. (1986)
• Democracy movement in Beijing. (1989)
  

MAJOR EVENTS

MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

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

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