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| 1921 | Guotao, Zhang |  |
| A founder of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1921 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Shanghai 1 of 13 in Shanghai who form the Chinese Communist Party |
| Hunan Forms a local branch of the Communist Party & a Marxist study group |
| 1922 | Hosen, Tsai | |
| Founds a branch of the Communist Party in France |
| 1922 | Teh, Chu | |
| Appointed Member of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1927 | Chiubai, Chu | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 1927 | Ch'u, Ch'iupai | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, 1st term |
| 1934 | Ch'u, Ch'iupai | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd term |
| 1935 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Expelled for backing Mao in the Long March by the rival faction led by Zhang Guotao |
| 1937 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Appointed Political Commissar during the civil war |
| 1946 | Gung, Peng | |
| Appointed Head of the Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong |
| 1946 | Zemin, Jiang | |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1949 | Chingling, Soong | |
| Appointed Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC |
| 1949 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| 21st Sep Appointed Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China |
| 1949 | Geng, Biao | |
| Appointed Envoy |
| 1949 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Chiang and his KMT government flee to Taiwan while Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China (1.2 million have died in three years) |
| Communist China invades eastern Tibet |
| Recognizes Ho Chi-Minh's Vietminh as the legitimate government of Vietnam |
| Signs the Sino-Soviet treaty of Friendship & Alliance & Mutual Help |
| 1st Oct Peking Proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square |
| 1st Oct Peking Russia gives immediate recognition to the People's Republic of China |
| 1st Oct Peking Stands at the Forbidden City & proclaims, "The Chinese people have stood up" |
| 16th Dec Moscow Mao Tse-Tung has talks with Stalin in Moscow |
| 1949 | Yibo, Bo | |
| Oct Appointed Minister of Finance |
| 1950 | Ch'en, Ch'eng | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of China, 1st term |
| 1950 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| 1st Mar Appointed President of the National Government in exile in Taiwan |
| 1950 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| China promises internal autonomy but troops invade & form a new government |
| Communist China annexes Xinjiang/Sinkiang (eastern Turkestan) |
| Holds absolute power from 1950-76 |
| Mao orders the persecution of "counter-revolutionaries" which causes the deaths of 710,000 people |
| 6th Jan Peking Britain recognizes the Republic of China |
| 7th Feb Chinese communists provide modern weapons to the Vietminh |
| 14th Feb Russia & China sign a 30 year Treaty of Friendship, Alliance & Mutual Assistance |
| 1951 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Communist China annexes Tibet/ Xizang |
| The communists conduct mass trials against "counterrevolutionaries" |
| 1952 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Mao orders the persecution of landlords which causes the deaths of about one million people |
| 1953 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Korea is permanently partitioned across the DMV (55,000 USA soldiers, one million south Koreans, one million Chinese soldiers, two million North Koreans have died |
| The communist party launches the first five-year plan with the aims of industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, and political centralization |
| 1954 | Ch'en, Ch'eng | |
| Appointed Vice President of China |
| 1954 | Peng, Dehuai | |
| Appointed Member of the Chinese Politburo |
| Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1954 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| A mutual defense treaty between the USA and Taiwan is agreed |
| The Greatt Leap Forward, an attempt to economically regenerate China |
| 1954 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Appointed Secretary General of the Communist Party of China |
| 1955 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Bandung Attends the conference of Afro-Asian states at Bandung |
| 24th April Bandung Resolutions passed include arms reduction & abolition of nuclear weapons |
| 24th April Bandung Says Asia will never forget the 1st atom bomb dropped by the USA |
| 1955 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1956 | Ch'en, Ch'eng | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1956 | Shangkun, Yang | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1956 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Failed attempt to introduce freedom for philosophical & political diversity in China |
| 1957 | Ch'en, Ch'eng | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of China, 2nd term |
| 1957 | Chen, Yi | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1957 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Founds the Hundred Flowers Movement |
| Peking Ideoligical differences begin to appear between China & Russia |
| 1958 | Ch'en, Ch'eng | |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| 1958 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| A call to increase production of steel, electricity & coal by as much as a 3rd each yr |
| Mao launches the "Great Leap Forward" (mass mobilization and collectivization of the farms to increase crop production and steel production |
| The Kampas wipe out a Chinese garrison of 3,000 men |
| 1959 | Biao, Lin | |
| Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1959 | Chuh, Teh | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
| 1959 | Dehuai, Peng | |
| Lushan Dismissed for criticizing Mao's economic management at the Lushan Conference |
| 1959 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Appointed Head of State for China |
| 1959 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Tibetans riot against Chinese occupation (87,000 dead) and the Dalai Lama flees to India |
| 29th Aug The Indian border is violated by Chinese troops |
| 1960 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Launches a newspaper campaign against Yugoslavia & Khrushcev's policy there |
| 28th Jan A Sino-Burmese treaty is signed |
| 3rd June An anti-Chinese revolt takes place in Tibet |
| 29th June Border friction takes place with Nepal |
| 1961 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| China sends aid to Albania |
| Communes are reorganised into "production brigades" after poor harvests in 1959-61 |
| 1962 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Between 16 million and 30 million people starve to death because of the 1959-62 famine caused by the "great leap forward" (the population of Communist China declined by 4.5%) |
| Mao breaks with the Soviet Union |
| 1964 | Guanhua, Qiao | |
| Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1964 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Mao sets up a Cultural Revolution team headed by Peng Zhen to purge culture |
| 1964 | Zhen, Peng | |
| Appointed Head of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| Mao sets up a Cultural Revolution team headed by Peng Zhen to purge culture |
| 12th Feb A report submitted to the party seeks the "annihilation of the bourgeois" |
| 1965 | Dongxing, Wang | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee, head of Mao's personal guard |
| 1965 | Zhu, Tao | |
| Jan Appointed Vice-Premier of the State Council |
| 1966 | Benyu, Qi | |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Biao, Lin | |
| Appointed Vice Charman of the Communist Party |
| Becomes one of the Wang-Guan-Lin trio of extremists supporting the Cultural Revolution |
| 1st Oct Makes a speech condemning the "all the od culture & habits" |
| 1966 | Boda, Chen | |
| 16th May Appointed Head of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Ching, Chiang | |
| Shanghai Plays a leading role in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the "Gang-of-Four" |
| 1966 | Chingling, Soong | |
| Red Guards break ino the home of Sun Yatsen's widow, Zho stops them beheading her |
| 1966 | Chunqiao, Zhang | |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Feng, Guan | |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Li, Wang | |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Lisan, Li | |
| Death of Li Lisan, executed |
| Executed during the Cultural Revolution |
| 1966 | Qing, Jiang | |
| Composed of Mao's allies & his wife, Jiang Qing |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Quing, Jiang | |
| Becomes one of the Wang-Guan-Lin trio of extremists supporting the Cultural Revolution |
| 1966 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Targeted as a "capitalist roader" |
| 1966 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Composed of Mao's allies & his wife, Jiang Qing |
| Factional rivalry results in overthrow of the Communist Party hierarchy |
| Leads 1 million Red Guards who assemble in Peking with the slogan "to rebel is right" |
| Mao launches the "Cultural Revolution" (call upon students to form units of "Red Guards" and rebel against authority: millions people die in the next three years, the Great Wall is destroyed, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiao Ping are ousted) |
| Sets up a Central Cultural Revolutionary Committee |
| 16th May Mao abolishes the Cultural Revolution Team & sets up a new one |
| Aug Orders the formation of a "Red Guard" of students to attack opposing party members |
| 18th Aug Tiananmen Sqr Address es a crowd of 1 million at Tiananmen Square |
| 1966 | Wenyuan, Yao | |
| 16th May Appointed Member of the Cultural Revolution Team |
| 1966 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Nanjing Held under house arrest in Nanjing |
| Purged because of his opposition to the "great leap forward" |
| 1966 | Yaobang, Hu | |
| Accused of being a capitalist roader |
| 1967 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Shaoqi's books on Marxist theory are burned in Tienanmen Square |
| 1968 | Biao, Lin | |
| Issues Directive no One for preparations against an attack by the Soviet Union |
| 1968 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Announces "the great victory of the proletarian Cultural Revolution" is completed |
| 26th Feb Calls for a return to order & discipline |
| 31st Oct Presides over a trial which finds Shaoqi guilty & expels him from the Party |
| 1968 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Peking Forced out of office during Mao's Cultural Revolution |
| 31st Oct Expelled from the CCP |
| 31st Oct Found guilty at a trial conducted by the Plenium of the 8th Party Congress |
| 1968 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| The Red Guard is disbanded after they fight each other in a civil war |
| 1969 | Biao, Lin | |
| April Declared as Mao's successor at the Ninth Congress of the Communist Party |
| 11th April In the Politburo introduces a motion to retain the office of President |
| 1969 | Dongxin, Wang | |
| Appointed Commander 8341 Regiment |
| 1969 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Allows 8 small non-communist parties to be re-instated to keep a "united front" |
| Appointed Foreign Minister |
| Assumes total control of the Foreign Affairs Ministry |
| Reccomends circulating military commands to prevent local power bases |
| Reintroduces the People's Political Consultative Conference for a common united front |
| Romania & Yugoslavia are China's biggest supporters at the World Communist Congress |
| The World Congress of Communist Parties rejects a proposal to expel China |
| June Moscow A world congess of Communist parties rejects a proposal from Russia to expel China |
| 1969 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Nov Cremated & thrown into a common grave under another name |
| Nov Dies of privation in jail at Kaifeng City, Henan province |
| 1969 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Lushin 30 Soviet soldiers are killed in one clash on a small uninhabited island in the Ussuri River, the roots of the dispute lay in Chinese claims to parts of the eastern Soviet Union relinquished by the Chinese under the "the Unequal Treaties" |
| Lushin Announces all references to his "genius" should be removed |
| Puts an end to the cultural revolution |
| Lushin Says that it is the slaves who make history |
| 1970 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Appointed Supreme Commander of the army & nation |
| China sends up its first space satellite |
| Communist China launches its first satellite |
| 1st Jan Accuses Russia of "fascist dictatorship" |
| 1971 | Biao, Lin | |
| 12th Sep Cross es the Chines border on his way to Russia to set up an opposition to Mao |
| 13th Sep After trying to overthrow Mao's government, Lin Biao dies in an airplane crash in Mongolia on his way to exile |
| 13th Sep Dies on board a plane in Outer Mongolia as it skids on uneven ground |
| 1971 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| 15th July Chou's policy of reconcilliation with the USA is rewarded |
| 15th July Richard Nixon announces his intention to visit China |
| 1971 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| After trying to overthrow Mao's government, Lin Biao dies in an airplane crash in Mongolia on his way to exile |
| Henry Kissinger visits China |
| 10th April A USAtable tennis team arrives in China |
| 14th April The USArelaxes trade & travel with China |
| 15th April Britain restores a telephone link with China, cut off in 1949 |
| 15th July Richard Nixon announces his intention to visit China |
| 13th Sep Mao's rival & Vice Chairman of the Party dies & many of his supporters are arrested |
| 1st Oct The annual celebration of the revolution is cancelled because of the death of Lin Biao |
| 1972 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| A rapproachment with the USA is concluded in the Shanghai Communique |
| Peking Welcomes President Nixon to Peking |
| 1972 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Shimantan Dam The Shimantan Dam collapses in the Henan province, killing 85,000 people and causing the subsequent death of about 100,000 people |
| USA President Richard Nixon visits Communist China |
| Feb Shanghai The Shanghai Communique paves the way for relations between Communists & Nationalists |
| 1973 | Guofeng, Hua | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1973 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Reappointed to the Central Committee |
| Reinstated by Chou En-Lai after the 1966 cultural revolution purges |
| 1974 | Xiaoping, Deng | |
| Covers for his patron, Zhou Enlai, after the latter's heart attack |
| 1975 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Chou En-Lai, at the fourth Congress , outlines a program of Four Modernizations (agriculture, industry, army, science) |
| 13th Jan Delivers his last speech at the 4th National People's Congress |
| 13th Jan Speaks of his "Grand Design" to modernize China |
| June Tells Sihanouk, China must build up a "neutral, independent Cambodia" |
| June Visited by Sihanouk, Chou asserts China must build a "neutral, independent Cambodia" |
| 1975 | Guanhua, Qiao | |
| Peking Sides with the Gang of Four against Deng Xiaoping |
| 1975 | Guofeng, Hua | |
| Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of China |
| 1975 |
