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| 1924 | Chang, Tsolin |  |
| Appointed Head of State for China
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| 1928 | Chang, Hsueh-Liang | |
| Appointed Head of State for China, after the assassination of his father
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| 1928 | Chang, Tsolin | |
| Manchuria Forced to withdraw from Peking into Manchuria & is abandoned by the Japanese
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| Resists the advance of the Nationalist's Northern Expedition
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| 4th June Death of Tsolin Chang
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| 4th June Mukden His train is mined, organized by 2 Japanese Colonels to secure Manchuria for Japan
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| 1928 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Nanking Appointed head of the Nationalist Republic, with Nanking as its capital
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| Nanking Establishes a Nationalist Republic at Nanking
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| From 1926-28 establishes Nationalist Control over most of China
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| 1930 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Weiheiwei Great Britain returns Weiheiwei to China
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| Ruijing Launches a failed attack Mao Tsetung's military base
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| 10th July Hankow Communist armed forces attack Hankow
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| 2nd Sep Beijing Rebels take power in Peking under Yen Hsi-chan
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| 1931 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Beijing Accepts the failure of his passive policy against the Japanese invasion
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| Jehol After capturng Manchuria the Japanese capture Jehol
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| Beijing After capturng Manchuria the Japanese capture Peking
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| Manchuria Chiang Kai-Shek adopts a very unpopular passive policy
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| Manchuria Chiang Kai-Shek wants the League of Nations to act & wants to defeat the Communists
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| Kiangsi Launches 3 "Encirclement Campaigns" against the Communists by the KMT
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| Ruijing Launches a 2nd failed attack on Mao Tse-Tung's military base
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| Ruijing Launches a 3rd failed attack on Mao Tse-Tung's military base
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| Manchuria Manchuria is captured by the Japanese & becomes the independent state of Manchukio
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| Manchukuo Manchuria is captured by the Japanese & becomes the independent state of Manchukuo
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| Puts up a reward of 100,000 silver dollars for the capture of Zhou En-Lai
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| 7th Jan A doctrine issued to China & Japan about non-recognition of agreements won by force
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| 12th May Nanking Based on the liberty of the person, freedom of the press & right of association
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| 12th May Canton Canton declares its independence
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| 29th July Captain Nakamura, Japanese officer, is killed by Chinese soldiers of the Mukden Army
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| Aug Anti-Chinese riots in the Japanese province of Korea, 100 Chinese are killed
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| 18th Sep Mukden Japanese troops guarding the Sth Manchurian Railway are sent into Mukden
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| 18th Sep Manchuria The Japanes attack Manchuria attacking both the Communists & nationalist separatists
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| 18th Sep Mukden The Japanese commander moves his HQ into the city
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| Oct Tsitsihar The Japanese occupy Tsitsihar
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| 1932 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| China & Japan sign a truce lasting 4 years
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| Kai-Shek redirects his forces against Chinese Communists
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| Shanghai Kai-Shek wants "internal pacification first before external resistance"
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| Ruijing Launches a 4th attack on the Communist military base with 400,000 men
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| Shanghai Protesters demand action against the Japanese
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| Ruijing Signs a truce with Japan
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| Jan Shanghai The Japanese begin to attack Shanghai
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| April Tangku Agrees to the Truce of Tangku with the Japanese
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| 4th Sep The Lytton Report on the conflict between China and Japan accuses Japan of being the aggressor
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| 1933 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Beijing A buffer state is set up under the Peking Political Council
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| Shanghai General Ueda issues an ultimatum for his troops to enter Shanghai, it is rejected
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| Fujian Nationalists in Fjuian province rebel against Kai-Shek, it collapses after 2 months
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| The British under Frederick Leith-Ross reform China's currency
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| Hebei The Japanese army invades Hebei
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| Shanghai The Japanese bomb the Chinese quarter of the city
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| 3rd Mar Shanghai A truce is signed between Japan & China & fighting in Shanghai ceases
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| May Shanghai The Japanese withdraw from Shanghai
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| 1935 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Adopts a policy of placating the Japanese
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| Appointed Head-of-State for China
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| 1936 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Changes appeasement toward Japan to one of opposition, in Alliance with the Communists
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| Suiyuan Japan invades the northern province of Suiyuan
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| Sian Kidnapped at Sian, released after 2 weeks
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| Nationalists & Communists form an Alliance against the Japanese
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| Stalin joins Chiang Kai-shek against fascism in Europe & imperialism in Japan
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| Oct Yenan The Red Army gathers forces of about 100,000 during the Long March at Yenan
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| 12th Dec Xian Captured by the Red Army & his own troops under Marshal Chang
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| 12th Dec Xian Held at General Chang's HQ
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| 25th Dec Xian Forced to end the civil war against the Communists & form a united front against Japan
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| 25th Dec Xian Released fron Xian in order to unite Communists & Nationalists against the Japanese
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| 1937 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Assumes command of the Chinese forces on declaration of hostilities against Japan
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| Chungking Forced to withdraw to Chungking by by the Japanese
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| Nanking Japan captures Nanjing/Nanking (350,000 Chinese are killed and 100,000 women are raped during the "rape of Nanking")
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| Makes peace with the Communists & allies himself with Zhou En-Lai against the Japanese
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| Placed under house arrest for 50 yrs
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| Beijing The Japanese capture Peking
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| Tientsin The Japanese capture Tientsin
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| Mar Sends a high ranking general to negotiate with Zhou En-Lai in Xian
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| 7th July Marco Polo Bdg The Japanese engineer a confrontation at Marco Polo Bridge to invade China
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| 26th July Beijing The Japanese bomb Beijing
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| 28th July Nankai The Japanese bomb Nankai University
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| 13th Aug Shanghai The Japanese begin to attack Shanghai
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| 22nd Sep Chinese Communists declare they will support Chiang Kai-Shek against Japan
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| 8th Nov Shanghai The Japanese capture Shanghai
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| 1938 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Japan installs five puppet regimes in China (Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Nanjing, Taiwan)
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| Canton Japan seizes Canton
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| President Roosevelt lends $25m to Chiang Kai-Shek to continue the war
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| 23rd Feb Twelve Chinese fighter planes drop bombs on Japan
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| 10th May Nanjimg The Japanese install a puppet govrnment in Nanjing
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| 12th June Anking The Japanese capture Anking
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| 12th June Kaifeng The Japanese capture Kaifeng
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| 12th June Suzhou The Japanese capture Suzhou
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| 12th June Xiamen The Japanese capture Xiamen
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| 22nd Sep Beijing The Japanese create a United Council for China
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| 22nd Sep Beijing The Japanese want to turn China into a Japanese Protectorate
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| Oct Chungking Withdraws the Nationalist Government to Chunking after the fall of Wuhan
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| 12th Oct Chongqing The Chinese Government withdraws to Chongqing
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| 12th Oct Guangzhou The Japanese capture Guangzhou
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| 12th Oct Wuchan The Japanese capture Wuchan
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| 1940 | Ching-wei, Wang | |
| April Nanking Appointed Head of State for China
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| April Nanking Heads a Japanese puppet Government at Nanking
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| 1942 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Rangoon Allies with the British forces in Burma after the Japanese capture of Rangoon
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| 2nd Jan Britain, the USA, China & 22 Allies agree not to make a separate peace with Germany
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| 1949 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Appointed Head of the emigre Nationalist Party regime in Taiwan
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| 1959 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Appointed Head of State for China
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| 1966 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Proposes sending Chinese armies into Vietnam against the USA
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| Targeted as a "capitalist roader"
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| 1968 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Beijing Forced out of office during Mao's Cultural Revolution
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| 1972 | Kai-Shek, Chiang | |
| Feb Shanghai The Shanghai Communique paves the way for relations between Communists & Nationalists
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