Timeline: China
Years: c. 500,000 years ago - 2008 | Subject: Encyclopedias, Geographical reference |
Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191735912 |
Year | Event |
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c. 500,000 years ago | Go to Zhoukoudian in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zhoukoudian, China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 2850 BCE | Go to silk in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1600 BCE | Go to Shang in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1500 BCE | Go to scroll binding, East Asia in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1400 BCE | Go to Shang in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Shang in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to ancestor worship in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Chinese art in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1300 BCE | Go to Chinese writing system in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1050 BCE | Go to Zhou in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
771 BCE | Go to Zhou in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 600 BCE | Go to Chinese Mythology in A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 550 BCE | Go to Confucianism in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
513 BCE | Go to iron in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 500 BCE | Go to lacquer in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to I Ching in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Taoism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 400 BCE | Go to Daoism in A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 350 BCE | Go to Daoism in A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to tea in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to legalism in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 250 BCE | Go to crossbow in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
221 BCE | Go to Zhou in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Qin in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 215 BCE | Go to Great Wall of China, China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
213 BCE | Go to Shi Huangdi (259–210 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
206 BCE | Go to Shi Huangdi (259–210 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Han in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
138 BCE | Go to Qian, Zhang (d. 114 b.c.e.) in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 126 BCE | Go to Qian, Zhang (d. 114 b.c.e.) in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 125 BCE | Go to Confucianism in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 120 BCE | Go to Sima Qian (c. 145–85 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
106 BCE | Go to Silk Road in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 100 BCE | Go to Acupuncture in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
23 | Go to Han in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 100 | Go to Buddhism in China in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
105 | Go to paper in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 175 | Go to Confucian Classics in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
221 | Go to Han in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 300 | Go to stirrups in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Three Kingdoms (220–280) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 400 | Go to harness in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
589 | Go to Sui in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 610 | Go to Grand Canal in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
618 | Go to T'ang in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 650 | |
c. 700 | Go to porcelain in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 730 | Go to Li Po (701–62) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 750 | Go to Tang in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
801 | Go to Abbas I (1571–1629) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
845 | Go to T'ang dynasty in A Dictionary of Buddhism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
868 | Go to sutra in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Diamond Sutra in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 900 | Go to playing card noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
903 | Go to T'ang in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 910 | Go to Marco Polo (c.1254–1324) in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 950 | Go to canal lock in Visual English Dictionary (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
960 | Go to Song in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
986 | Go to Beijing (Beijing Municipality/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1040 | |
c. 1050 | Go to movable type in A Dictionary of Media and Communication (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to compass in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1054 | Go to Crab Nebula in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1064 | Go to escapement in A Dictionary of Physics (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1100 | Go to Song in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1200 | Go to sternpost in The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1260 | Go to Kublai Khan (1216–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1264 | Go to Kublai Khan (1216–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1271 | Go to Kublai Khan (1216–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1274 | Go to Nichiren (1222–82) in A Dictionary of Buddhism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kublai Khan (1216–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1275 | Go to Polo, Marco (c.1254–1324) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1279 | Go to Song (960–1279) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kublai Khan (1216–94) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Beijing (Beijing Municipality/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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1346 | Go to Black Death (1347–50) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1350 | Go to Jingdezhen in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1356 | Go to Nanjing in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nanjing (Jiangsu/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1368 | Go to Ming in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1421 | Go to Lithuania in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1425 | Go to Temple of Heaven in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zheng He (died c.1433) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1583 | Go to Ricci, Matteo (1552–1610) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1595 | Go to Confucius in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1614 | Go to Jesuits in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1644 | Go to Qing in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1683 | Go to Qing in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1690 | Go to chinoiserie in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1720 | Go to Dalai Lama noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1792 | Go to Macartney's embassy in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1810 | Go to Chile in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1814 | Go to O'Higgins, Bernardo (1778–1842) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1817 | Go to O'Higgins, Bernardo in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to O'Higgins, Bernardo (1778–1842) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to O'Higgins, Bernardo in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1818 | Go to Cochrane, Thomas, 10th earl of Dundonald (1775–1860) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1823 | Go to O'Higgins, Bernardo (1778–1842) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1828 | Go to Chile in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1830 | Go to Chile in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1839 | Go to Opium Wars (1839–42) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hong Kong in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1842 | Go to Nanking, treaty of (1842) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1850 | Go to Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1853 | Go to Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1856 | Go to Opium Wars (1839–42) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1858 | Go to Opium Wars (1839–42) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Under the Treaty of Aigun, Russia wins from China the valuable Pacific coastline down to Vladivostok Go to Vladivostok (Primorye Territory/Russia) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1860 | Go to Opium Wars (1839–42) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1863 | Go to Gordon, Charles George (1833–85) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1864 | Go to Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1884 | Go to War of the Pacific in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1887 | Go to Macao in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1891 | Go to Balmaceda, José Manuel (1840–91) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1894 | Go to Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1895 | Go to Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1898 | Go to Lüshun (Liaoning/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1900 | Go to Boxer Rising (1899–1900) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1905 | Go to Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Portsmouth, Treaty of (1905) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1906 | Go to Valparaíso in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1910 | Go to Guomindang in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1911 | Go to Wuchang Revolution in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1912 | Go to Sun Yatsen (12 Nov. 1866) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Qing in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1914 | Go to Mistral, Gabriela (1889–1957) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: November 16 - the German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege Go to Qingdao (Shandong/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1920 | Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1921 | Go to Mao Zedong (26 Dec. 1893) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1924 | 20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1927 | Go to Jiangxi Soviet in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Northern Expedition (1926–28) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Homo erectus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1928 | Go to Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1931 | Go to Mukden incident (18 September 1931) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1932 | Go to Manchukuo in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1933 | Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1934 | Go to Long March (1934–35) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1935 | Go to Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Long March (1934–35) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1937 | Go to Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nanjing, Rape of in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1941 | Go to Hong Kong, fall of (1941) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1942 | Go to Stilwell, Gen Joseph Warren (1883–1946) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1943 | Go to Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1949 | Go to Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to China, People's Republic of in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zhou Enlai (b. 1898) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1950 | Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1951 | Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1957 | Go to Hundred Flowers campaign (1956–7) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1958 | Go to Great Leap Forward (1958–60) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1959 | Go to Dalai Lama (1935– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Liu Shaoqi (b. 24 Nov. 1898) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1962 | Go to Indo‐Chinese War in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1964 | Go to Red Detachment of Women, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1966 | Go to Cultural Revolution in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Red Guards in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mao Zhuxi Yulu in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1969 | Go to Gang of Four in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1970 | Go to Allende, Salvador (b. 26 July 1908) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1971 | Go to Neruda, Pablo (1904–1973) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1973 | Go to Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (b. 25 Nov. 1915) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Allende, Salvador (b. 26 July 1908) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1974 | Go to Sian in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (b. 25 Nov. 1915) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1976 | Go to Mao Zedong (b. 26 Dec. 1893) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gang of Four in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1981 | Go to Deng Xiaoping (22 Aug. 1904) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1982 | Go to Allende, Isabel (1942– ) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1988 | Go to Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (23 Nov. 1915) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1989 | Go to Tiananmen Square in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tiananmen Square in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Deng Xiaoping (b. Aug. 1904) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tiananmen Square in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Chile in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1991 | See this event in other timelines: |
1993 | Go to Three Gorges project in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Film in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1997 | Go to Jiang Zemin (b. 17 Aug. 1926) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1998 | Go to Foster of Thames Bank, Norman Robert, The Lord (1935– ) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (b. 25 Nov. 1915) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1999 | Go to Macao in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2000 | Go to Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto (b. 25 Nov. 1915) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: See this event in other timelines: |
2003 | Go to Hu Jintao (b. 1942) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2006 | Go to Three Gorges project in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2007 | Go to satellite, artificial in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to China in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2008 | Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Spitz, Mark Andrew (1950– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |