Cronología de la historia china

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Timeline of notable events in the history of China and its predecessor states

Cambios territoriales de China en todas las grandes dinastías

Cronología de la historia china

Esta es una línea de tiempo de la historia de China , que comprende importantes cambios legales y territoriales y eventos políticos en China y sus estados predecesores. Para leer sobre los antecedentes de estos eventos, consulte Historia de China . Consulte también la lista de monarcas chinos , el árbol genealógico de los emperadores chinos , las dinastías en la historia de China y los años en China .

Las fechas anteriores al 841 a . C. , el comienzo de la regencia de Gonghe , son provisionales y están sujetas a disputa.

Ésta es una lista dinámica y es posible que nunca pueda satisfacer estándares particulares de completitud. Puede ayudar agregando elementos faltantes con fuentes confiables .

China prehistórica

20000 a. C.		Se utilizó cerámica en la cueva Xianren . [2]
7600 a. C.		El Zhenpiyan apareció cultura.
		Los cerdos se domesticaron por primera vez en China. [3]
7500 a. C.		El Pengtoushan apareció cultura.
		El arroz fue domesticado por primera vez en China.
7000 a. C.		La cultura Peiligang apareció.
6600 a. C.		Los símbolos de Jiahu se usaron por primera vez en Jiahu .
6500 a. C.		La cultura Cishan apareció.
6000 aC		Los perros se domesticaron por primera vez en China. [3]
4000 AC		Los símbolos se grabaron en cerámica en Banpo .
3630 a. C.		El procesamiento de la seda fue inventado por la cultura Yangshao .

2852 aC: El comienzo del período de los Tres Agosto y los Cinco Emperadores en China.

Antigüedad

Año	Fecha	Evento
2570 a. C.		La seda fue producida por la cultura Liangzhu .
2500 aC		Batalla de Banquan : Las fuerzas del granjero divino fueron repelidas por una fuerza de tribus aliadas bajo el Emperador Amarillo .
		Batalla de Zhuolu : Un ejército combinado de tribus bajo el Emperador Amarillo derrotó lainvasión Hmong en Zhuolo .
2366 a. C.		Zhi se convirtió en rey .
2361 a. C.		primer contacto de los colonos con Văn Lang . [4]

Siglo 22 aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
2200 a. C.		Gran Inundación : Yu el Grande completó un sistema de drenaje que puso fin a las periódicas y destructivas inundaciones de losríos Amarillo y Yangtze . (Los descubrimientos arqueológicos confiables muestran que sucedió alrededor de 1920 aC. [5] )
		Los Nueve Calderos de Trípode fueron forjados con metal entregado en homenaje a Yu por las Nueve Provincias .
2117 a. C.		Tai Kang se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Xia .

Siglo XXI aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
2075 a. C.		Xiang de Xia se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Xia .
2047 a. C.		Xiang fue asesinado y desplazado como rey por orden del señor de la guerra Han Zhuo. Su esposa embarazada huyó de la capital, Shangqiu .
		La esposa de Xiang dio a luz a un hijo, Shao Kang .
2007 a. C.		La gente de Shangqiu dio la bienvenida a un ejército leal a Shao en la ciudad. Han se suicidó.

Siglo XX aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1985 a. C.		Zhu de Xia se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Xia .
1968 a. C.		Zhu murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo Huai de Xia .
1924 a. C.		Huai murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo Mang de Xia .
1906 a. C.		Mang fue sucedido por su hijo Xie de Xia .

Siglo XIX aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1900 aC		La cultura Erlitou apareció.
1890 a. C.		Xie fue sucedido por su hijo Bu Jiang .
1831 a. C.		Bu abdicó a favor de su hermano menor Jiong de Xia .
		Terremoto del monte Tai : se produjo un terremoto en el monte Tai .
1810 a. C.		Jiong fue sucedido por su hijo Jin de Xia .

Siglo XVIII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1789 a. C.		Jin fue sucedido por su primo, el hijo de Bu, Kong Jia .
1758 a. C.		Kong fue sucedido por su hijo Gao de Xia .
1747 a. C.		Gao fue sucedido por su hijo Fa de Xia .
1728 a. C.		Fa fue sucedido por su hijo Jie de Xia .

Siglo XVII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1675 a. C.		Jie fue sucedido por Tang de Shang , lo que marcó el comienzo de la dinastía Shang .

Siglo XVI aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1600 aC		Batalla de Mingtiao : el clan Shang (más tarde la dinastía Shang ) derroca al corrupto y último emperador de la dinastía Xia

Siglo XV aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1500 aC		La cultura Erligang apareció.

Siglo XIV aC

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Siglo XIII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1290 a. C.		Pan Geng se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Shang .
		La capital de la dinastía Shang se trasladó de Yan a Yin .
1250 a . C.		Wu Ding se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Shang .
		Los huesos de Oracle se utilizaron por primera vez para la adivinación; Aparece por primera vez evidencia de escritura en hueso oráculo .

Siglo XII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1200 aC		La esposa de Wu , la general y suma sacerdotisa Fu Hao , murió y fue enterrada en la tumba de Fu Hao en Yinxu .
1192 a. C.		Wu murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo Zu Geng de Shang .
1170 a. C.		Geng Ding se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Shang .
1147 a. C.		Geng fue sucedido por su hijo Wu Yi de Shang .
1112 a. C.		Wu fue asesinado por un rayo mientras cazaba. Fue sucedido por su hijo Wen Ding .
1101 a. C.		Wen fue sucedido por su hijo Di Yi .

Siglo XI aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1076 a. C.		Di murió.
1075 a. C.		Di fue sucedido como rey de la dinastía Shang por su hijo, el rey Zhou de Shang .
1050 a . C.		El rey Wen de Zhou murió.
1047 a. C.		Zhou tomó a Daji como su concubina.
1046 a. C.		Batalla de Muye : Las fuerzas predinásticas de Zhou , lideradas por el rey Wu de Zhou y ayudadas pordesertores de la dinastía Shang , provocaronuna sangrienta derrota a las fuerzas de Shang en Muye, cerca de Yinxu .
		Zhou se suicidó quemándose con sus joyas en el Deer Terrace Pavilion .
1043 a. C.		Wu murió.
1042 a. C.		Wu fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Cheng de Zhou .
1034 a. C.		Se empezaron a utilizar las inscripciones de bronce chino .
1021 a. C.		Cheng murió.
1020 a. C.		Cheng fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Kang de Zhou .

Siglo X aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
1000 aC		Se compiló el Clásico de la poesía .
996 a. C.		Kang murió.
976 a. C.		El rey Mu de Zhou se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
964 a. C.		Mu dirigió una expedición fallida contra Quanrong .
922 a. C.		Mu murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Gong de Zhou .

Siglo IX aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
900 a . C.		Gong murió.
899 a. C.		El hijo de Gong, Ji Jian, rey Yi de Zhou se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
892 a. C.		Ji Jian murió.
891 a. C.		El tío de Ji Jian , el hijo de Mu , el rey Xiao de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
886 a. C.		Xiao murió.
885 a. C.		El hijo de Ji Jian, Ji Xie, el rey Yi de Zhou se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
878 a. C.		Ji Xie murió.
877 a. C.		El hijo de Ji Xie, el rey Li de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
842 a. C.		Una revuelta popular obligó a Li a exiliarse cerca de Linfen .
841 a. C.		La Regencia de Gonghe llegó al poder.
828 a. C.		Li murió.
827 a. C.		El hijo de Li, el rey Xuan de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .

Siglo VIII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
782 a. C.		Xuan murió.
781 a. C.		El hijo de Xuan, el rey You de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
779 a. C.		Usted tomó Bao Si como su concubina.
771 a. C.		El Marqués de Shen , cuya hija había sido reemplazada por Bao Si como reina , dirigió un ataque contra Haojing en alianza con Quanrong . Tú y el hijo de Bao, Bofu, fueron asesinados.
770 a. C.		El hijo de You, el rey Ping de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
		Ping trasladó la capital de Zhou al este de Luoyang .
720 aC		Ping murió.
719 a. C.		El nieto de Ping, el rey Huan de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
707 aC		Batalla de Xuge : Huan , en coalición con los estados vasallos de Zhou , Chen , Cai y Wey , encabezó una expedición punitiva contra Zheng . La coalición fue derrotada y Huan resultó herido.

Siglo VII aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
697 a. C.		Huan murió.
696 a. C.		El hijo de Huan, el rey Zhuang de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
685 a. C.		El duque Huan de Qi se convirtió en duque de Qi .
682 a. C.		Zhuang murió.
681 a. C.		El hijo de Zhuang, el rey Xi de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
677 a. C.		Xi murió.
676 a. C.		El hijo de Xi, el rey Hui de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
652 a. C.		Hui murió.
651 a. C.		El hijo de Hui, el rey Xiang de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
645 a. C.		El canciller de Qi , Guan Zhong, murió.
632 a. C.		Batalla de Chengpu : Jin y sus aliados derrotaron decisivamente a una coalición liderada por Chu .
630 a. C.		Nació Sunshu Ao .
619 a. C.		Xiang murió.
618 a. C.		El hijo de Xiang, el rey Qing de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
613 a. C.		Qing murió.
612 a. C.		El hijo de Qing, el rey Kuang de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
607 a. C.		Kuang murió.
606 a. C.		El hermano de Kuang, el rey Ding de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .

Siglo VI aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
600 a . C.		Se empezó a utilizar el dinero del cuchillo .
595 a. C.		Batalla de Bi : Chu derrotó decisivamente a Jin en Bi, cerca del moderno Xingyang .
586 a. C.		Ding murió.
585 a. C.		El hijo de Ding, el rey Jian de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
575 a. C.		Batalla de Yanling : Jin derrotó a una fuerza Chu numéricamente superioren el moderno condado de Yanling . El rey Gong de Chu resultó herido.
572 a. C.		Jian murió.
571 a. C.		El hijo de Jian, el rey Ling de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
551 a. C.		Nació Confucio .
548 a. C.		Apareció la primera referencia sobreviviente a Go .
545 a. C.		Ling murió.
544 a. C.		El hijo de Ling, Ji Gui, rey Jing de Zhou se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
		El pueblo chino se dividió primero en un sistema de castas de cuatro ocupaciones .
543 a. C.		El primer ministro de Zheng , Zichan, estableció el primer código civil escrito del estado.
520 aC		Ji Gui murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Dao de Zhou .
		Dao fue asesinado por su hermano.
519 a. C.		El hermano de Dao, Ji Gai, rey Jing de Zhou se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
515 a. C.		El rey de Wu Liao fue asesinado por el asesino Zhuan Zhu .
514 a. C.		El rey Helü de Wu se convirtió en rey de Wu .
506 a. C.		Batalla de Boju : Wu derrotó decisivamente a unafuerza Chu numéricamente superioren Boju .

Siglo V aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
500 a. C.		El hierro fundido se inventó por primera vez en China.
486 a. C.		El rey de Wu, el rey Fuchai de Wu, ordenó la construcción del Canal Han.
484 a . C.		Wu Zixu murió.
482 a. C.		El rey de Yue, el rey Goujian de Yue, capturó la capital de Wu en un asalto sorpresa.
477 a. C.		Ji Gai murió.
475 a. C.		El hijo de Ji Gai, el rey Yuan de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
473 a. C.		Wu fue anexado por Yue .
470 a. C.		Nació Mozi .
469 a. C.		Yuan murió.
518 a. C.		El hijo de Yuan, el rey Zhending de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
465 a. C.		Goujian murió.
441 a. C.		Zhending murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Ai de Zhou .
		Ai fue asesinado y sucedido como rey por su hermano menor, el rey Si de Zhou .
		Si fue asesinado por su hermano, el rey Kao de Zhou .
440 a . C.		Kao se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
432 a. C.		Se construyó la tumba del marqués Yi de Zeng .
426 a. C.		Kao murió.
425 a . C.		El hijo de Kao, el rey Weilie de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
403 a . C.		Partición de Jin : Weilie reconoció a losnobles Jin Marqués Wen de Wei , Marqués Lie de Zhao y Marqués Jing de Han como marqueses , otorgando laindependencia de jure de Jin a los estados de Wei , Zhao y Han .
402 a. C.		Weilie murió.
401 a . C.		El hijo de Weilie, el rey An de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .

Siglo IV aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
400 a. C.		Gan De nació.
		Nació Shi Shen .
		Aparecieron los primeros mapas chinos supervivientes .
		Se compiló el primer catálogo de estrellas chino .
389 a. C.		Se publicó el Zuo Zhuan .
386 a. C.		La ciudad de Handan fue fundada para servir como capital de Zhao .
381 a. C.		El primer ministro de Chu , Wu Qi, fue asesinado por nobles en el funeral de su rey, el rey Dao de Chu .
376 a. C.		Una murió.
375 a. C.		El hijo de An, el rey Lie de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
		Zheng fue anexado por Han .
370 a. C.		Nació Zhuang Zhou .
369 a. C.		Lie murió.
368 a. C.		El hermano de Lie, el rey Xian de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
361 a. C.		El duque Xiao de Qin se convirtió en duque de Qin .
356 a. C.		El asesor de Xiao, Shang Yang, implementó un código legal en Qin basado en el Canon de las Leyes que estableció el castigo por complicidad en un crimen, estableció un sistema de rangos militares e implementó políticas que alientan el cultivo de tierras no pobladas.
354 a. C.		Batalla de Guiling : Wei sitió lacapital de Zhao , Handan .
353 a. C.		Batalla de Guiling : El ejército de Wei huyó de Handan en respuesta a los informes de un ataque de Qi en su capital, Daliang, y fueron derrotados por las fuerzas de Qi en Guiling, en el moderno condado de Changyuan .
342 a . C.		Batalla de Maling : Qi le dio a Wei una sangrienta derrota.
		La ballesta se utilizó por primera vez en China.
338 a . C.		Xiao murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Huiwen de Qin .
		Shang y su familia fueron ejecutados por desmembramiento bajo cargos de traición.
321 a. C.		Xian murió.
320 a . C.		El hijo de Xian, el rey Shenjing de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
319 a. C.		El confuciano Mencio se convirtió en funcionario de Qi .
316 a . C.		Sun Bin murió.
		Shu fue conquistada y anexada por Qin .
		Ba fue conquistada y anexionada por Qin .
315 a. C.		Shenjing murió.
314 a. C.		El hijo de Shenjing, el rey Nan de Zhou, se convirtió en rey de la dinastía Zhou .
311 a. C.		Huiwen murió.
310 a . C.		El hijo de Huiwen, el rey Wu de Qin, se convirtió en rey de Qin .
		Nació Xun Kuang .
307 a. C.		El rey de Zhou, el rey Wuling de Zhao, ordenó a su caballería que comenzara a usar ropa hecha a la manera de los pueblos Donghu y Xiongnu .
		Wu murió.
306 a. C.		El hermano de Wu, el rey Zhaoxiang de Qin, se convirtió en rey de Qin .
305 a. C.		Nació Zou Yan . Se escribieron las tiras de bambú de Tsinghua .

Siglo III aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
300 a. C.		Se publicó Erya .
		Se produjeron los Guodian Chu Slips .
293 a. C.		Batalla de Yique : Qin infligió una sangrienta derrota a unaalianza Wei - Han .
278 a. C.		Qin conquistó Ying, la capital de Chu .
		El poeta Chu Qu Yuan escribió Lament for Ying y se ahogó en el río Miluo porque no pudo soportar su exilio por mucho tiempo o para su desesperación por el estado de sus compatriotas.
262 a. C.	abril	Batalla de Changping : Zhao interceptó unainvasión Qin de la comandancia de Shangdang .
260 a . C.	mes de julio	Batalla de Changping : las fuerzas de Qin rodearon al ejército de Zhao , forzando su rendición. El general Zhao Zhao Kuo murió en acción.
	mes de julio	Batalla de Changping : Los soldados de Zhao capturados fueron ejecutados.
259 a. C.	18 de febrero	Nace Qin Shi Huang .
256 a. C.		Nan se sometió a Zhaoxiang y tomó el título de Duque de West Zhou.
		Nan murió. Su territorio fue anexado por Qin .
		Se construyó el sistema de riego de Dujiangyan .
251 a. C.		Zhaoxiang murió.
250 a . C.		Los primeros dibujos de la ballesta de repetición aparecieron en los registros de Chu .
	13 de septiembre	El hijo de Zhaoxiang, el rey Xiaowen de Qin, se convirtió en rey de Qin .
	15 de septiembre	Xiaowen murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el rey Zhuangxiang de Qin .
247 a . C.	7 de mayo	Zhuangxiang murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo Qin Shi Huang .
246 a . C.		El canal de Zhengguo fue completado por Zheng Guo de Qin .
230 a . C.		Guerras de unificación de Qin : Qin invadió Han .
227 a. C.		Jing Ke falló en un intento de asesinato de Qin Shi Huang .
225 a. C.		Qin conquistó a Wei .
223 a. C.		Qin conquistó a Chu .
222 a. C.		Qin conquistó a Yan .
		Qin conquistó a Zhao .
221 a. C.		Qin conquistó Qi .
		El Sello de la Herencia del Reino fue tallado.
220 a . C.		Qin Shi Huang tomó el título de Qin Shi Huang, primer emperador de China.
		Se inició la construcción de la Gran Muralla China .
		El canciller Li Si estandarizó el sistema de escritura chino con la creación de Small Seal Script .
214 a. C.		Se construyó el Canal Lingqu .
213 a . C.		Quema de libros y enterramiento de eruditos :Se ordenó quemartodos los ejemplares del Clásico de Poesía , el Libro de Documentos y las obras de las Cien Escuelas de Pensamiento .
210 a. C.	10 de septiembre	Qin Shi Huang murió a causa de las píldoras de mercurio fabricadas por sus alquimistas y médicos de la corte; Irónicamente, estas píldoras estaban destinadas a hacer inmortal a Qin Shi Huang.
		Qin Shi Huang fue enterrado con el Ejército de Terracota en el Mausoleo del Primer Emperador Qin .
	octubre	El hijo de Qin Shi Huang , Qin Er Shi, lo sucedió como emperador de China .
209 a . C.		El Xiongnu chanyu Modu Chanyu estableció el Imperio Xiongnu en la estepa euroasiática .
	mes de julio	Levantamiento de Dazexiang : los oficiales militares Chen Sheng y Wu Guang comenzaron una rebelión por temor a ser ejecutados después de no llegar a sus puestos.
	diciembre	Levantamiento de Dazexiang : Chen Sheng y Wu Guang fueron asesinados por sus propios hombres.
208 a . C.		Li fue ejecutado acusado de traición. Zhao Gao , quien lo había incriminado, fue nombrado canciller en su lugar.
207 a. C.		Batalla de Julu : lasfuerzas de Chu lideradas por el señor de la guerra Xiang Yu derrotaron a unafuerza Qin numéricamente superior, matando a una gran fracción del ejército Qin.
	octubre	Zhao Gao hizo matar a Qin Er Shi . El sobrino de Qin Er Shi, Ziying, lo sucedió.
		El emperador general Chu Gaozu de Han entró en la capital de Qin , Xianyang .
	diciembre	Ziying mató a Zhao .
	diciembre	Ziying se rindió a Gaozu .
206 a . C.		Fiesta en Hong Gate : Gaozu huyó de un banquete después de que quedó claro que Xiang lo había invitado allí para que lo mataran.
		Xiang dirigió un ejército a Xianyang , quemó el Palacio Epang y mató a Ziying y a la familia real.
205 a . C.		Batalla de Jingxing : lasfuerzas Han derrotaron decisivamente a unejército Zhao numéricamente superioren el paso de Jingxing .
204 a. C.		El general Qin Zhao Tuo estableció el estado de Nanyue .
202 a . C.		Batalla de Gaixia : las fuerzas Han de Gaozu destruyeron elejército de Chu occidental dirigido por Xiang en la moderna Suzhou .
		Gaozu tomó el título de emperador y estableció su capital en Luoyang .

Siglo II a. C.

Año	Fecha	Evento
200 aC		Batalla de Baideng : Los Xiongnu rodearon y sitiaron unafuerza Han superior.
		Se inventó la sembradora de tubos múltiples.
195 a. C.	1 de junio	Gaozu murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Hui de Han .
193 a. C.		El canciller Han Xiao He murió.
190 a . C.		Chang'an se convirtió en el término oriental de la Ruta de la Seda hacia Europa.
188 a. C.		Hui murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Qianshao de Han .
186 a . C.		Zhang Liang murió.
184 a. C.		Qianshao fue depuesto y asesinado por orden de la emperatriz viuda Emperatriz Lü Zhi . Fue sucedido por su hermano, el emperador Houshao de Han .
180 a . C.		Disturbio del Clan Lü : Houshao fue depuesto por funcionarios imperiales liderados por Chen Ping y Zhou Bo . Fue sucedido por su tío, el hijo de Gaozu , el emperador Wen de Han .
168 a. C.		Los Textos de la Seda de Mawongdui fueron enterrados en Mawongdui .
157 a. C.	Verano	Wen murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Jing de Han .
141 a. C.	9 de marzo	Jing murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Wu de Han .
140 a. C.		Wu adoptó el confucianismo .
139 a. C.		Los ocho inmortales de Huainan publicaron el Huainanzi .
135 a. C.		Campañas Han contra Minyue : La dinastía Han invadió Minyue después de una petición de ayuda de su estado vasallo Nanyue .
		Expansión hacia el sur de la dinastía Han : la dinastía Han anexó Minyue .
133 a . C.	junio	Batalla de Mayi : unengaño Han no logró atraer a los Xiongnu a una emboscada en Mayi .
125 a. C.		Zhang Qian regresó a la corte Han para informar sobre sus viajes a los reinos de Dayuan , Kangju , los reinos greco-bactriano e indo-griego , Partia y Mesopotamia .
119 a. C.	enero	Batalla de Mobei : comenzó unaexpedición Han en el Valle de Orkhon que causaría una derrota decisiva y sangrienta a los Xiongnu .
111 a . C.		Han campañas contra Minyue : El Minyue grupa estado de Dongyue fue invadido y anexadas por la dinastía Han .
		Guerra Han-Nanyue : La dinastía Han conquistó y anexó Nanyue .
109 a. C.		Campañas Han contra Dian : La dinastía Han invadió y anexó el Reino Dian .
108 a. C.	diciembre	Batalla de Loulan : lasfuerzas Han atacaron el Reino de Loulan en Lop Nur .
102 a. C.		Las fuerzas Han sitiaron Kokand .

Siglo I aC

Año	Fecha	Evento
100 a. C.		El acero se utilizó por primera vez en China.
91 a. C.		Sima Qian completó los Registros del Gran Historiador .
87 a. C.	29 de marzo	Wu murió. Fue sucedido por su joven hijo, el emperador Zhao de Han , con Huo Guang , Jin Midi y Shangguang Jie actuando como regentes.
86 a. C.		Jin murió.
74 a. C.		Zhao murió.
	18 de julio	El príncipe de Changyi fue nombrado emperador de Han por Huo Guang .
	14 de agosto	El príncipe de Changyi fue depuesto.
		Huo nombró al bisnieto de Wu , entonces un plebeyo, el emperador Xuan de Han .
67 a . C.	diciembre	Batalla de Jushi : lasfuerzas Han derrotaron a la gente de la cultura Gushi , en ese momento sometida a los Xiongnu , en Jiaohe en la moderna Turpan .
60 a. C.		Se estableció el Protectorado de las Regiones Occidentales .
49 a . C.		Xuan murió.
48 a . C.		El hijo de Xuan, el emperador Yuan de Han, se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
		Consort Ban nació.
40 a. C.		Apareció el registro chino más antiguo que se conserva del martillo basculante operado a pedal.
37 a. C.		Jing Fang murió.
36 a. C.	diciembre	Batalla de Zhizhi : Unafuerza Han rompió y destruyó una fortaleza ocupada por Xiongnu chanyu Zhizhi Chanyu en Taraz , matándolo.
33 a. C.		Yuan murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Cheng de Han .
30 a. C.		Apareció la primera mención sobreviviente de la carretilla.
18 a. C.		Liu Xiang compiló las biografías de mujeres ejemplares .
7 a. C.		Cheng murió. Fue sucedido por su sobrino, el emperador Ai de Han .
1 a. C.		Ai murió.
		El joven primo de Ai, el emperador Ping de Han, fue nombrado emperador de la dinastía Han , y Wang Mang actuó como regente.

Siglo I

Año	Fecha	Evento
1		Se produjo el primer modelo de timón de popa .
2		Un censo contó cincuenta y nueve millones de personas en el imperio Han .
3		Ping estableció un sistema escolar nacional. Nace Ban Biao , primer autor del Libro de Han .
6	3 de febrero	Ping murió después de ser envenenado por Wang , quien se convirtió en emperador interino .
8		Liu Xin completó un catálogo de estrellas y calculó la duración del año.
9		Wang se declaró emperador de la dinastía Xin .
		Wang introdujo el sistema de campo de pozos de distribución de tierras y producción agrícola.
10		Wang introdujo un impuesto sobre la renta del diez por ciento para profesionales y trabajadores calificados.
		Wang prohibió el uso privado de ballestas.
12		Wang abandonó el sistema de pozos bajo la presión de la aristocracia.
17		Wang impuso monopolios gubernamentales sobre el licor, la sal, el hierro, la acuñación, la silvicultura y la pesca.
		Mother Lü inició una rebelión contra un magistrado del condado en el condado de Haiqu, cerca de la actual Rizhao .
18		Yang Xiong murió.
23		Batalla de Kunyang : las fuerzas de Lülin rompieron el asedio de Kunyang, en el moderno condado de Ye , por unejército Xin muy superior.
	6 de octubre	Los rebeldes de Lülin irrumpieron en el palacio de Weiyang y mataron a Wang . El emperador Gengshi ascendió al trono, restaurando la dinastía Han .
25		Rebeliones de Cejas Rojas : El Emperador Gengshi fue ejecutado.
		Rebeliones de Cejas Rojas : Las Cejas Rojas nombraron a Liu Penzi su emperador.
	5 de agosto	El señor de la guerra Han, el emperador Guangwu de Han, tomó el título de emperador .
27		Rebeliones de Cejas Rojas : Las Cejas Rojas se rindieron a la dinastía Han .
31		Du Shi inventó los fuelles impulsados ​​por ruedas hidráulicas para fundir hierro fundido.
32		Nace Ban Gu , coautor del Libro de Han .
33		Un bloqueo del río Yangtze por el rebelde Gongsun Shu fue roto por los barcos del castillo de Han .
43		Segunda dominación china de Vietnam : Vietnam cayó bajo elcontrol Han .
45		Nace Ban Zhao , la primera mujer historiadora de China.
52		Se escribió el Yuejue Shu .
57	29 de marzo	Guangwu murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Ming de Han .
58		El canciller Han , Deng Yu, murió.
sesenta y cinco		El medio hermano de Ming, Liu Ying, se convirtió al budismo .
68		El Templo Budista del Caballo Blanco se estableció en Luoyang .
73	febrero	Batalla de Yiwulu : unaexpediciónpunitiva Han contra Xiongnu capturó el territorio en el área de la moderna ciudad de Hami .
75		Ming murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador Zhang de Han .
83		Wang Chong teorizó correctamente la naturaleza del ciclo del agua .
87		Yuan An fue designado in situ .
88		Zhang murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo, el emperador He de Han .
89	junio	Batalla de las montañas de Altai : Han y las fuerzas aliadas derrotaron al ejército del norte de Chanyu y aceptaron la rendición de doscientos milsoldados Xiongnu en las montañas de Altai .
97		El general Han Ban Chao envió al enviado Gan Ying a las afueras del Imperio Romano .
100		Xu Shen completó el Shuowen Jiezi .

Siglo segundo

Año	Fecha	Evento
105		Cai Lun inventó la fabricación de papel.
	13 de febrero	Él murió.
		Su hijo pequeño, el emperador Shang de Han, fue nombrado emperador de Han con la emperatriz viuda Deng Sui actuando como regente.
106		Shang murió.
		El joven primo de Shang, el emperador An de Han, se convirtió en emperador , y Deng Sui continuó actuando como regente.
111		Ban Zhao completó el Libro de Han .
120		Zhang Heng completó un catálogo de estrellas que también defendía una luna esférica que refleja la luz.
125		Zhang inventó la primera esfera armilar de propulsión hidráulica .
		Se dibujó la representación china más antigua conocida de un odómetro mecánico que marca la distancia .
	30 de abril	Una murió.
		El marqués de Beixiang se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
		El Marqués de Beixiang murió.
		El hijo de An, el emperador Shun de Han, se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
132		Zhang inventó un sismómetro capaz de indicar la dirección de los terremotos.
		Nació Cai Yong .
142		Se publicó el qi de Cantong .
144		Shun murió. Fue sucedido por su hijo pequeño, el emperador Chong de Han , con la emperatriz viuda Liang Na y su hermano Liang Ji actuando como regentes.
145		Chong murió.
		El joven primo tercero de Chong, el emperador Zhi de Han, se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han , con Liang Na como regente.
146		Liang Ji envenenó a Zhi y lo mató.
	1 de agosto	El emperador Huan de Han se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
147		Nació Lokaksema .
148		El misionero budista An Shigao llegó a China.
166		Relaciones sino-romanas : Unenviado romano llegó a Luoyang, la capital de Han .
		Desastres de las prohibiciones partidistas : varios ministros y unos doscientos estudiantes universitarios, que se habían opuesto a la influencia de eunucos corruptos en la corte real, fueron arrestados.
168		Huan murió.
		El emperador Ling de Han se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
177		Nació Cai Wenji .
179		Apareció la primera referencia conocida a Los nueve capítulos sobre el arte matemático .
180		Ding Huan inventó el ventilador rotativo.
184		Rebelión del Turbante Amarillo : Ellíder de la secta taoísta Zhang Jue llamó a sus seguidores en lasprovincias Han a rebelarse contra el gobierno.
	Invierno	Rebelión de la provincia de Liang : El pueblo Qiang lanzó una rebelión contra la autoridad Han en el área de la moderna Wuwei .
185		Zhi Yao tradujo por primera vez textos budistas al chino.
189	13 de mayo	Ling murió.
		El hijo de Ling, Liu Bian, se convirtió en emperador de la dinastía Han .
		Las fuerzas leales a los señores de la guerra Yuan Shao y Yuan Shu masacraron a unos dos mil eunucos en Luoyang, la capital de Han .
	28 de septiembre	El general Han Dong Zhuo depuso a Liu Bian como emperador y nombró a su hermano el emperador Xian de Han en su lugar.
190	febrero	Campaña contra Dong Zhuo : Una coalición liderada por Yuan Shao se reunió en el Paso Hangu en previsión de una expedición contra Dong .
192	22 de mayo	Dong fue asesinado por su hijo adoptivo Lü Bu .
194		Conquistas de Sun Ce en Jiangdong : El señor de la guerra Sun Ce atacó y conquistó el territorio administrado por Lu Kang .
197		La guerra entre Cao Cao y Zhang Xiu casi le quita la vida a Cao Cao. El hijo mayor de Cao Cao murió en la batalla, pero Zhang Xiu más tarde (199) se rindió a Cao Cao para enfrentar juntos a Yuan Shao.
198	Invierno	Batalla de Xiapi : las fuerzas aliadas de los señores de la guerra Cao Cao y Liu Bei derrotaron a un ejército leal a Lü Bu en Xuzhou .
200	noviembre	Batalla de Guandu : las fuerzas leales a Cao Cao infligieron una sangrienta derrota a Yuan Shao cerca de la confluencia de los ríos Bian y Amarillo .

Siglo III

Año	Fecha	Evento
204		El señor de la guerra Gongsun Kang estableció la Comandancia Daifang en la península de Corea .
208	Invierno	Batalla de Red Cliffs : las fuerzas leales a los señores de la guerra Liu Bei y Sun Quan repelieron decisivamente a Cao Cao en un intento de invasión a través del río Yangtze .
211	septiembre	Batalla del paso de Tong : Cao Cao derrotó a una alianza derebeldesanti- Han en el moderno condado de Tongguan , asegurando su control sobre Guanzhong .
215		Toma de posesión de la provincia de Yi por parte de Liu Bei : Liu Zhang , el gobernador de la provincia de Yi en las modernas Sichuan y Chongqing , entregó Chengdu a Liu Bei .
		Batalla de Xiaoyao Ford : un brote de plaga obligó a Sun Quan a abandonar el intento de conquista de Cao Cao de una fortaleza en Hefei .
219		Batalla del río Han : Liu Bei tendió una emboscada y causó una sangrienta derrota al ejército de Cao Cao en Hanzhong .
	septiembre	Batalla de Fancheng : Cao Cao repelió un ataque delgeneral Guan Yu de Liu Bei en el moderno distrito de Fancheng , a un gran costo para ambos lados.
	diciembre	La invasión de Lü Meng a la provincia de Jing :los generales de Liu Bei , Shi Ren y Mi Fang, desertaron a Sun Quan , rindiendo a su general Lü Meng los principales puestos de defensa de Jingzhou .
220	10 de diciembre	End of the Han dynasty: Cao Cao's son Cao Pi forced Xian to abdicate the throne and declared himself emperor of Cao Wei.
221		Liu Bei declared himself emperor of Shu Han.
		Battle of Xiaoting: The Shu Han generals Wu Ban and Feng Xi attacked and destroyed an Eastern Wu army at Wu Gorge.
222		Sun Quan declared himself king of Eastern Wu.
		Battle of Xiaoting: Eastern Wu forces attacked and burned the Shu Han camps and dealt serious casualties during their retreat.
223	10 June	Liu Bei died. He was succeeded by his son Liu Shan, with Li Yan and chancellor Zhuge Liang acting as regents.
225	Autumn	Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign: The rebel leader Meng Huo surrendered Nanzhong to Zhuge Liang.
226	29 June	Cao Pi died. He was succeeded by Cao Rui, who may have been his son or his wife Lady Zhen's by a previous marriage to Yuan Xi.
228		Battle of Jieting: Cao Wei forces encircled and destroyed a Shu Han army guarding the supply line for an invasion in modern Qin'an County.
		Battle of Shiting: A Cao Wei army was lured into an ambush by Eastern Wu in modern Qianshan County and dealt heavy casualties on its retreat.
232		Cao Zhi died.
234	Autumn	Battle of Wuzhang Plains: Shu Han forces made an orderly retreat from Cao Wei forces on the Wuzhang Plains after Zhuge Liang fell ill and died.
239	22 January	Cao Rui died. He was succeeded by his young adopted son Cao Fang, with Cao Shuang and Sima Yi acting as regents.
244	April	Battle of Xingshi: Shu Han forces stalled a Cao Wei invasion at Mount Xingshi in the modern Changqing National Nature Reserve.
247		Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions: Cao Wei pushed back an invasion by the Shu Han general Jiang Wei across the Tao River.
248		Eastern Wu forces killed the Vietnamese rebel Lady Triệu.
249		Incident at Gaoping Tombs: Sima Yi took control of the Cao Wei capital Luoyang during Cao Fang and Cao Shuang's absence.
252		Sun Quan died. He was succeeded by his young son Sun Liang, with the general Zhuge Ke acting as regent.
254		Sima Yi's son, the regent Sima Shi, deposed Cao Fang, who was succeeded by Cao Pi's grandson Cao Mao.
255		Ma Jun invented the south-pointing chariot.
258		Sun Liang was deposed by the regent Sun Chen.
		Sun Liang's brother Sun Xiu was made emperor of Eastern Wu.
260		Coup of Cao Mao: Cao Mao was murdered in a failed attempt to kill the regent Sima Zhao at his residence.
		Cao Cao's grandson Cao Huan was made emperor of Cao Wei.
263	November	Conquest of Shu by Wei: The Cao Wei general Deng Ai accepted the surrender of the Shu Han emperor Liu Shan outside the capital Chengdu.
		Liu Hui published a revised version of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art.
264	3 September	Sun Xiu died.
		Sun Quan's grandson Sun Hao was made emperor of Eastern Wu.
265		Cao Wei instituted the nine-rank system of civil servants.
	6 September	Sima Zhao died. His eldest son and heir, Sima Yan, inherited his position as regent of Cao Wei and noble title of King of Jin.
		Pei Xiu introduced the grid reference and the concept of scale to Chinese mapmaking.
266	4 February	Cao Huan, last emperor of Cao Wei, abdicated in favour of Sima Yan.
	8 February	Sima Yan formally enthroned himself as Emperor of Jin, establishing the Jin dynasty. Sima Yan is posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Jin.
	20 March	Emperor Wu of Jin established his wife Yang Yan as Empress.
267	4 February	Emperor Wu of Jin established his oldest living son, the developmentally disabled Sima Zhong, as Heir.
280	15 March	Conquest of Wu by Jin: Sun Hao presented himself as a prisoner to the Jin general Wang Jun.
		Chen Shou compiled the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
290	17 May	Emperor Wu died. He was succeeded by his developmentally disabled son Emperor Hui of Jin, with Yang Jun acting as regent.
291		War of the Eight Princes: Hui's wife Jia Nanfeng invited troops loyal to his brother Sima Wei into the Jin capital Luoyang to imprison the empress dowager Empress Yang Zhi and her relatives.

4th century

Year	Date	Event
304		The Xiongnu noble Liu Yuan declared himself prince of Former Zhao.
		The Di warlord Li Xiong declared himself prince of Cheng Han.
307	8 January	Hui was poisoned, probably by the regent Sima Yue.
		Hui's brother Emperor Huai of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
311		Huai was kidnapped from the capital Luoyang by Former Zhao forces.
313		Goguryeo conquered and annexed the Lelang Commandery.
	14 March	Huai was executed.
		Huai's nephew Emperor Min of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
316		Min surrendered to the Former Zhao general Liu Yao during a siege of the Jin capital Chang'an.
317		Emperor Yuan of Jin declared himself prince of Jin, with his capital at Jiankang.
318		Min was executed.
319		The Jie warlord Shi Le declared himself prince of Later Zhao.
320		Zhang Mao issued a general pardon to the people of Former Liang.
322		The first accurate tomb depiction of stirrups appeared.
323	3 January	Yuan died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Ming of Jin.
324		The rebel Wang Dun died.
325	18 October	Ming died. He was succeeded by his young son Emperor Cheng of Jin.
328		The rebel Su Jun was defeated by the Jin generals Tao Kan and Wen Jiao.
329		The Later Zhao general Shi Hu captured Shanggui in modern Tianshui and killed the Former Zhao emperor Liu Xi and his nobility.
337	23 November	The Xianbei Murong Huang declared himself prince of Former Yan.
342	26 June	Cheng died. He was succeeded by his brother Emperor Kang of Jin.
344	17 November	Kang died. He was succeeded by his infant son Emperor Mu of Jin.
347		The Jin general Huan Wen captured the Cheng Han capital Chengdu.
351		The Jin general and Di chief Fu Jian declared himself Tian Wang of Former Qin.
		The Later Zhao emperor Shi Zhi and his court were killed by one of his generals on the orders of the warlord Ran Min.
353		Wang Xizhi wrote the Lantingji Xu.
361	10 July	Mu died.
		Mu's cousin Emperor Ai of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
365	30 March	Ai died. He was succeeded by his brother Emperor Fei of Jin.
366		Gu Kaizhi became a Jin officer.
369		A Jin army led by Huan was annihilated as it retreated from the Former Yan capital Ye by the general Murong Chui.
370		The Former Yan emperor Murong Wei was captured by the Former Qin prime minister Wang Meng.
372	6 January	Huan deposed Fei in favor of his granduncle Emperor Jianwen of Jin.
	12 September	Jianwen died. He was succeeded by his young son Emperor Xiaowu of Jin.
376	26 September	Duke Zhang Tianxi of Former Liang surrendered to Former Qin.
383	November	Battle of Fei River: A Jin army defeated a massively larger Former Qin force, inflicting some seven hundred thousand casualties and expanding Jin territory north to the Yellow River.
384		The Xianbei Former Qin general Murong Chui declared himself prince of Later Yan.
		The Former Qin general Yao Chang declared himself prince of Later Qin.
385		The Xianbei chief and Former Qin vassal Qifu Guoren joined an active rebellion and declared the independence of Western Qin.
386	20 February	Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei declared himself prince of Northern Wei.
		The Former Qin general Lü Guang declared himself Tian Wang of the majority-Di Later Liang.
394		The Former Qin emperor Fu Chong was killed and his territory annexed by Western Qin forces.
396		Xiaowu was suffocated by one of his concubines. He was succeeded by his young and severely disabled son Emperor An of Jin.
397		Xiongnu rebels established the Northern Liang, with the Han Duan Ye as king.
		The Xianbei chief Tufa Wugu declared the independence of Southern Liang from Later Liang.
398		Murong Chui's brother Murong De declared himself prince of Southern Yan.
399		Faxian left for India to acquire Buddhist texts.
400		Six commanderies of Northern Liang seceded as Western Liang, under the kingship of the Han Li Gao.

5th century

Year	Date	Event
403		Under military pressure from Southern Liang and Northern Liang, the Later Liang emperor Lü Long surrendered his capital Guzang, in modern Wuwei, to the Later Qin emperor Yao Xing.
404		Huiyuan wrote On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings, arguing for the independence of Buddhist clergy from the monarchy.
405		Tao Yuanming retired.
407		The Later Yan emperor Murong Xi was beheaded by his adoptive nephew, the Korean people Gao Yun, who became emperor of the successor state of Northern Yan.
		The Later Qin general Helian Bobo declared himself Tian Wang of the majority-Xiongnu Xia.
410	25 March	The Southern Yan emperor Murong Chao was executed by Jin along with his court and nobility.
414		Western Qin conquered the Southern Liang capital Ledu, in modern Haidong.
417		The Later Qin emperor Yao Hong surrendered to the Jin general Emperor Wu of Liu Song.
419	28 January	An was strangled on Wu's orders and succeeded by his brother Emperor Gong of Jin.
420		Wu deposed Gong, marking the beginning of the Liu Song dynasty.
421		The Western Liang prince Li Xun committed suicide during the siege of his capital Dunhuang by Northern Liang.
431	Summer	The Western Qin prince Qifu Mumo was executed along with his nobility by the Xia emperor Helian Ding.
		Helian Ding was captured by the khan of Tuyuhun.
436	4 June	The Northern Yan emperor Feng Hong fled the capital Helong in the face of an attack by Northern Wei.
460		Juqu Anzhou, the prince of Northern Liang in exile in Gaochang, was killed with his family by the Rouran Khaganate.
475		Bodhidharma arrived in China.
477		The oldest known painted depiction of a horse collar was made in the Mogao Caves.
479		The Liu Song emperor Emperor Shun of Liu Song was deposed by his general Emperor Gao of Southern Qi.
485		The Northern Wei emperor Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei introduced the equal-field system.
496		Change of Xianbei names to Han names: Xianbei names were converted to Han names in Northern Wei.

6th century

Year	Date	Event
502		The young Southern Qi emperor Emperor He of Southern Qi was deposed by his general Emperor Wu of Liang.
523		The Songyue Pagoda was built.
534		The Northern Wei emperor Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei fled the capital Luoyang to Chang'an at the advance of his general Gao Huan.
		Gao Huan appointed Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei emperor of Eastern Wei with his capital at Ye.
535-536		Extreme weather events. Snow reportedly falls in August, which caused harvests to be delayed.
543		The Yupian was completed.
550	5 June	The Eastern Wei general Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi deposed Xiaojing and established the state of Northern Qi.
557		The Liang general Emperor Wu of Chen deposed the emperor Emperor Jing of Liang, establishing the Chen dynasty.
	15 February	The Western Wei general Yuwen Hu deposed the emperor Emperor Gong of Western Wei in favor of his own cousin Emperor Xiaomin of Northern Zhou, establishing the successor state of Northern Zhou.
577	4 February	The Northern Qi emperor Gao Heng and his father, the Taishang Huang Gao Wei, were executed with their family by Northern Zhou.
581		The Northern Zhou emperor Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou was forced to abdicate in favor of his regent Emperor Wen of Sui, initiating the Sui dynasty.
582		Compilation began of the Jingdian Shiwen.
589		Yan Zhitui first referred to toilet paper.
	10 February	Sui forces captured the Chen capital Jiankang and its emperor Chen Shubao.
598		Goguryeo–Sui War: A Sui army of some three hundred thousand, led by the general Yang Liang, invaded Goguryeo.

7th century

	style="width:10%" | Date	Event
601		The Qieyun was published.
602		Sui–Former Lý War: Sui conquered and annexed the Early Lý dynasty.
604	13 August	Wen died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Yang of Sui.
605		The imperial examination was first used as the sole criterion for appointing local officials in Sui.
		The Zhaozhou Bridge was completed.
607		Japanese missions to Sui China: The Wa emissary Ono no Imoko arrived in Sui.
609		The Grand Canal was completed.
610		Engineers Geng Xun and Yuwen Kai invented an improved water clock.
		Yang ordered his commanderies to submit maps and gazetteers to the central government.
611		The Four Gates Pagoda was completed.
612		Battle of Salsu: Goguryeo routed a Sui invasion force at the Chongchon River, inflicting some three hundred thousand casualties.
616		Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas first visited China.
617	18 December	The rebel Emperor Gaozu of Tang, in control of the Sui capital Chang'an, declared Yang Taishang Huang and his grandson Yang You emperor.
618	12 June	Transition from Sui to Tang: Gaozu deposed Yang You.
621	28 May	Battle of Hulao: Tang forces defeated and captured the warlord Dou Jiande at Hulao Pass.
624		Ouyang Xun completed the Yiwen Leiju.
626	2 July	Xuanwu Gate Incident: Gaozu's son Emperor Taizong of Tang assassinated his brothers Li Yuanji and the crown prince Li Jiancheng.
	4 September	Gaozu retired. Taizong succeeded him.
630		Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks: Tang forces captured the khan of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate in the Yin Mountains.
635		The first Christian missionaries arrived in China.
		Nestorian monks from Anatolia and the Sasanian Empire built the Daqin Pagoda.
		Alopen wrote the Jesus Sutras.
		Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun: The Tuyuhun khan Murong Fuyun, in flight from Tang forces and with much of his army destroyed, was killed by his officers.
		The Book of Liang was published.
636		The Xumi Pagoda was completed.
		The Book of Chen, Book of Northern Qi, Book of Zhou, and Book of Sui were compiled.
638		Tibetan attack on Songzhou: Tibetan forces raided the city of Songzhou, in modern Songpan County.
640		The Protectorate General to Pacify the West was established.
		Tang campaign against Karakhoja: Tang defeated and annexed Gaochang.
641		Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo: Taizong sent his general Li Shiji to support the restoration of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate under Qilibi Khan against Xueyantuo.
643		Taizong commissioned Yan Liben to paint portraits of his officials at Lingyan Pavilion.
644		Tang campaigns against Karasahr: A Tang army captured Karasahr and installed a friendly king.
645	20 July	First campaign in the Goguryeo–Tang War: Tang forces dispersed a Goguryeo army which had arrived in defense of Ansi City.
646		Bianji compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions.
647		The Protectorate General to Pacify the North was established.
648		The Book of Jin was compiled.
		Tang campaigns against Karasahr: Tang forces captured the king of Karasahr.
649		The four arts were first written of as skills required of a Chinese scholar-official.
	19 January	Tang campaign against Kucha: Kucha surrendered to Tang forces.
	10 July	Taizong died.
	15 July	Taizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
657		Gaozong commissioned the compilation of a materia medica.
		Battle of Irtysh River: Tang forces ambushed and largely destroyed the army of the Western Turkic Khaganate at the Irtysh River.
659		The History of the Southern Dynasties and the History of the Northern Dynasties were completed.
663		Battle of Baekgang: The allied navies of Silla and the Tang dynasty defeated a combined Baekje restorationist and Japanese force in the lower reaches of the Geum River.
666		The Chinese Buddhist monks Zhiyu and Zhiyou crafted a mechanical south-pointing chariot for the Japanese emperor Emperor Tenji.
668		The Protectorate General to Pacify the East was established.
683	27 December	Gaozong died.
684		The Qianling Mausoleum was completed.
		Luo Binwang died.
690	16 October	Gaozong's wife Wu Zetian became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
692		Tang forces reconquered the Four Garrisons of Anxi from Tibet.
700		The Dunhuang map was created.

8th century

Year	Date	Event
704		The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda was rebuilt.
705	22 February	Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her son Emperor Zhongzong of Tang.
	23 February	Zhongzong became emperor of Tang.
709		The Small Wild Goose Pagoda was completed.
710		Liu Zhiji compiled the Shitong.
		Shangguan Wan'er died.
	3 July	Zhongzong died after being poisoned, probably by his wife Empress Wei.
	8 July	Zhongzong's son Emperor Shang of Tang became emperor of Tang, with Wei acting as regent.
	25 July	A coup led by Gaozong's daughter Princess Taiping and grandson Emperor Xuanzong of Tang killed Wei and deposed Shang in favor of his uncle, Gaozong's son Emperor Ruizong of Tang.
712	8 September	Ruizong abdicated the throne to Xuanzong.
		The Pear Garden was established.
713		The Kaiyuan Za Bao was first published.
715		First encounter between the Tang dynasty and the Umayyad Arabs. Tang dynasty defeats the Arab occupation force in Fergana Valley, reinstalls Ikhshid on the throne.
717		Arabs attack Transoxiana hoping to capture the Tang dynasty's Four Garrisons of Anxi district, but are routed in the Battle of Aksu.
725		Yi Xing invented a water-powered armillary sphere.
729		Gautama Siddha completed the compilation of the Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era.
740		Wu Daozi died.
		Meng Haoran died.
744		Du Fu and Li Bai first met.
751	July	Battle of Talas: After the defection of their Karluk mercenaries, a Tang force was defeated by a vastly superior Abbasid-Tibetan allied army on the Talas River, probably near modern Talas.
755	16 December	An Lushan Rebellion: The Tang jiedushi An Lushan declared himself emperor of Yan.
		Zhang Xuan died.
756	Spring	Battle of Yongqiu: Yan forces retreated from their siege of a Tang fortress in Yongqiu, in modern Kaifeng.
	12 August	The Tang army declared Xuanzong's son Emperor Suzong of Tang emperor at Lingwu.
	10 September	Xuanzong recognized Suzong as emperor.
757		Battle of Suiyang: Yan forces finally conquered Suiyang, in modern Suiyang District, after a siege that cost the lives of some sixty thousand Yan soldiers and thirty thousand Tang civilians were lost to starvation and cannibalism.
758		Arab and Persian pirates looted and burned the Tang seaport of Guangzhou.
759		Wang Wei died.
760		Lu Yu composed The Classic of Tea.
		Yangzhou massacre (760): Arab and Persian merchants are killed by Chinese rebels.
762	16 May	Suzong died of a heart attack.
	18 May	Suzong's son Emperor Daizong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
		Du Huan wrote the Jingxingji.
763		An Lushan Rebellion: The Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide in flight from Tang forces.
779	23 May	Daizong died.
	12 June	Daizong's son Emperor Dezong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
781		The Nestorian Stele was composed.
783		Han Gan died.
785		The Tang official Jia Dan began work on a map of Tang and its former colonies.
794		Prince Li Gao ordered the construction of the first Chinese paddle-wheel ships.

9th century

Year	Date	Event
801		Du You completed the Tongdian.
805	25 February	Dezong died.
	28 February	Dezong's son Emperor Shunzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
	31 August	Shunzong abdicated in favor of his son Emperor Xianzong of Tang.
806		Xianzong launched the first of a series of military campaigns against the provinces.
820	14 February	Xianzong died, possibly after being poisoned by one of his eunuch officers.
	20 February	Xianzong's son Emperor Muzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
824	25 February	Muzong died.
	29 February	Muzong's young son Emperor Jingzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
		Han Yu died.
827	9 January	Jingzong was assassinated.
	13 January	Jingzong's brother Emperor Wenzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
831		An Uyghur sued the son of a Tang general for failure to repay a debt.
840	10 February	Wenzong died.
	20 February	Wenzong's brother Emperor Wuzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
843		A large fire consumed four thousand buildings in an eastern neighborhood of the Tang capital Chang'an.
845		Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution: Wuzong abolished Buddhist monasteries as well as establishments of Zoroastrianism and Christianity, which were thought to be Buddhist heresies.
846	22 April	Wuzong died.
	25 April	Wuzong's uncle, Xianzong's son Emperor Xuānzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
		Bai Juyi died.
851		The Arab merchant Sulaiman al-Tajir visited Guangzhou.
852		Du Mu died.
853		Duan Chengshi published the Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang.
858		A flood along the Grand Canal and on the North China Plain killed tens of thousands.
859	7 September	Xuānzong died.
	13 September	Xuānzong's son Emperor Yizong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
863		Duan Chengshi published a work describing the slave trade, ivory trade and ambergris trade in Bobali, probably modern Berbera.
868	11 May	The Diamond Sutra was printed.
873	15 August	Yizong died.
	16 August	Yizong's son Emperor Xizong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
874		Wang Xianzhi launched a rebellion against the Tang government.
879		Guangzhou massacre: The rebel Huang Chao burned and looted Guangzhou and killed as many as two hundred thousand foreigners, mainly Arabs and Persians.
884	13 July	Huang was murdered with his immediate family while in flight from Tang forces.
888	20 April	Xizong died. He was succeeded by his brother Emperor Zhaozong of Tang.

10th century

Year	Date	Event
904	22 September	Zhaozong was killed on the orders of the warlord Zhu Wen, then in control of the Tang capital Chang'an.
	26 September	Zhu Wen appointed Zhaozong's young son Emperor Ai of Tang emperor of the Tang dynasty.
907	27 February	The Khitan chieftain Abaoji became emperor of the Liao dynasty.
	12 May	Zhu Wen deposed Ai and declared himself emperor of Later Liang. The princes Yang Wo and Wang Jian, who did not recognize Zhu Wen, became de facto independent, as did their states Wu and Former Shu, respectively.
		Zhu Wen created Qian Liu the prince of Wuyue.
		Zhu Wen created Ma Yin, the jiedushi of the Wu'an Circuit, prince of Chu.
909	27 April	Zhu Wen created Wang Shenzhi prince of Min.
917		The earliest Chinese reference to Greek fire appeared.
	5 September	Liu Yan declared himself emperor of Southern Han.
919		The flamethrower was first described in China.
923	13 May	Prince Li Cunxu of Jin declared himself emperor of Later Tang.
	18 November	The Later Liang emperor Zhu Youzhen was killed by one of his generals at the approach of Li Cunxu to his capital Daliang.
924	14 April	Gao Jixing declared himself king of Jingnan.
925	15 December	The Former Shu emperor Wang Zongyan surrendered to the Later Tang army at his capital Chengdu.
926	6 September	Abaoji died.
927	11 December	Abaoji's son Emperor Taizong of Liao became emperor of the Liao dynasty.
934	16 March	Meng Zhixiang, the Later Tang jiedushi of the territory of the defunct Former Shu, declared himself emperor of Later Shu.
936	28 November	Taizong recognized the Shatuo Later Tang general Shi Jingtang emperor of Later Jin in exchange for the promised cession of the Sixteen Prefectures that formed a natural border around the North China Plain.
937	11 January	The Later Tang emperor Li Congke burned himself to death with his family and servants as the joint armies of Liao and Later Jin approached his capital Luoyang.
	10 November	The Wu emperor Yang Pu was deposed by his general Li Bian, who declared himself emperor of the Wu successor state of Southern Tang.
945	2 October	Min was conquered and annexed by Southern Tang.
947	11 January	The Later Jin emperor Shi Chonggui was deposed and his territory annexed by the Liao dynasty.
	10 March	The Shatuo Liu Zhiyuan, a jiedushi of the defunct Later Jin, declared himself emperor of Later Han.
	15 May	Taizong died.
	16 May	Taizong's nephew Emperor Shizong of Liao, whom he had raised, became emperor of the Liao dynasty.
950		The earliest known depiction of a fire lance and lobbed grenade appeared.
951	2 January	The Later Han emperor Liu Chengyou was killed by one of his officers while attempting to escape the siege of the capital Ye by his general Guo Wei.
	13 February	Guo Wei declared himself emperor of Later Zhou.
	7 October	Shizong was murdered by one of his officers.
	11 October	Shizong's cousin, Taizong's son Emperor Muzong of Liao became emperor of the Liao dynasty.
		Southern Tang conquered and annexed Chu.
		Liu Zhiyuan's brother Liu Chong declared himself declared himself emperor of Northern Han.
960		Gu Hongzhong painted the Night Revels of Han Xizai.
	3 February	Emperor Guo Zongxun of Later Zhou was overthrown by his general Emperor Taizu of Song.
	4 February	Taizu became emperor of the Song dynasty.
		Taizu was presented with gunpowder-impregnated fire arrows.
		The Hundred Family Surnames was composed.
961		The Huqiu Tower was built.
963		The Song dynasty conquered and annexed Jingnan.
965	23 February	The Later Shu emperor Meng Chang surrendered to the Song army at his capital Chengdu.
969	12 March	Muzong was murdered by his servants on a hunting trip.
	13 March	Shizong's son Emperor Jingzong of Liao became emperor of the Liao dynasty.
971		Southern Han was conquered and annexed by the Song dynasty.
974		Song troops constructed a floating pontoon bridge across the Yangtze River in order to secure supply lines while fighting against the Southern Tang.
976	1 January	Song forces conquered and annexed Southern Tang.
	14 November	Taizu died.
	15 November	Taizu's brother Emperor Taizong of Song became emperor of the Song dynasty.
		The Yuelu Academy was founded.
977		The pagoda of the Longhua Temple was built.
978		The Taiping Guangji was completed.
		The Wuyue king Qian Chu surrendered his territory to Taizong.
979		The Northern Han emperor Liu Jiyuan surrendered to Song.
981		Battle of Bạch Đằng: A Song naval invasion of the Early Lê dynasty via the Bạch Đằng River was aborted after the land invasion was stalled.
982	13 October	Jingzong died.
	14 October	Jingzong's young son Emperor Shengzong of Liao became emperor, with his widow Empress Xiao Yanyan acting as regent.
983		The Taiping Yulan was completed.
984		Qiao Weiyo invented the canal pound lock.
986		The Wenyuan Yinghua was completed.
990		Fan Kuan was born.
993	November	First conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Liao forces invaded Goryeo.
997		The Longkan Shoujian was completed.
	8 May	Taizong died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Zhenzong.
1000		The Chinese first used coke in place of charcoal for blast furnaces.

11th century

Year	Date	Event
1005		Song signed the Chanyuan Treaty, under which it agreed to pay Liao an annual tribute in silk and silver.
1008		The Guangyun was completed.
1010		Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Liao captured the Goryeo general Gang Jo and burned the capital Kaesong.
		An atlas of China was completed.
1013		Cefu Yuangui was completed.
1018		Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Liao invaded Goryeo.
1019	10 March	Battle of Kuju: Goryeo forces decisively defeated a retreating Liao army at Kuju, near modern Kusong.
1022	23 March	Zhenzong died.
	24 March	Zhenzong's son Emperor Renzong of Song became emperor of the Song dynasty.
1031	25 June	Shengzong died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Xingzong of Liao.
1037		The Jiyun was published.
1038	10 November	The Tangut chieftain Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia declared himself emperor of Western Xia.
1041		Bi Sheng invented movable type.
1043		Ouyang Xiu and the vice chancellor Fan Zhongyan drafted the Qingli Reforms in Song.
1044		The Wujing Zongyao was completed.
1045		The Lingxiao Pagoda was completed.
1048	19 January	Jingzong died. He was succeeded by his infant son Emperor Yizong of Western Xia.
1049		The Iron Pagoda was completed.
1055		The Liaodi Pagoda was completed.
	28 August	Xingzong died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Daozong of Liao.
1056		The Pagoda of Fogong Temple was completed.
1060		Ouyang Xiu completed the New Book of Tang.
1063	30 April	Renzong died.
	1 May	Emperor Yingzong of Song became emperor of the Song dynasty.
		The Pizhi Pagoda was completed.
1067		Yizong died. He was succeeded by his young son Emperor Huizong of Western Xia.
	25 January	Yingzong died. He was succeeded by his son Emperor Shenzong of Song.
1068		The dry dock was first used in China.
1069		The Song chancellor Wang Anshi ordered an extensive government reform including the introduction of the baojia system of community-based law enforcement.
1070		The Song ambassador Su Song published the Bencao Tujing.
1072		Guo Xi painted Early Spring.
1075		The Song diplomat Shen Kuo used court archives to reject Daozong's territorial claims.
		A proto-Bessemer process was first observed in Cizhou.
1076		Wang resigned.
1077		Su was sent on a mission to Liao.
1080		Shen was appointed to defend Yan'an.
1081		A Song army was dealt some sixty thousand casualties defending Yan'an against an attempted invasion of Song by Western Xia forces.
		Su published a 200-volume work on Song-Liao relations.
1084		Sima Guang completed the Zizhi Tongjian.
		Li Qingzhao was born.
1085	1 April	Shenzong died. He was succeeded by his young son Emperor Zhezong, with his widow Empress Xiang acting as regent.
		Xiang ousted the court faction affiliated with Wang's reforms at Sima's urging.
1086		Huizong died.
		Huizong's son Emperor Chongzong of Western Xia became emperor of Western Xia.
1088		Shen published the Dream Pool Essays.
1090		The earliest known description of the mechanical belt appeared.
1094		Su completed a clock tower in Kaifeng.
		The Dongpo Academy was established on Hainan.
1100	23 February	Zhezong died. He was succeeded by his younger brother Emperor Huizong of Song.

12th century

Year	Date	Event
1101	12 February	Daozong was murdered. He was succeeded by his grandson Emperor Tianzuo of Liao.
1103		The Yingzao Fashi was published.
1107		Mi Fu died.
1111		The Donglin Academy was founded.
1115	28 January	The Wanyan chieftain Emperor Taizu of Jin declared himself emperor of the Jin dynasty.
	August	Taizu conquered the Liao city of Huanglongfu.
1119		Zhu Yu published the Pingzhou Table Talks.
1120		The pagoda of Tianning Temple was completed.
1123	19 September	Taizu died.
	27 September	Taizu's brother Emperor Taizong of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
1124		The Liao general Yelü Dashi established the Khitan Qara Khitai in the Liao northwest.
1125	26 March	Jin dynasty forces captured Tianzuo.
	November	Jin–Song Wars: The Jin army invaded Song.
1126	18 January	Huizong abdicated in favor of his son Emperor Qinzong.
	19 January	Emperor Qinzong became emperor of the Song dynasty.
1127	9 January	Jingkang Incident: The Song capital Kaifeng fell to a Jin siege. Huizong and Qinzong were captured with much of their court.
	12 June	Huizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Song became emperor of the Song dynasty at Lin'an City.
1132		Song established a standing navy headquartered at Dinghai in modern Dinghai District.
		A fire destroyed some thirteen thousand homes in the Song capital Lin'an City.
1135		The Song general Yue Fei defeated the bandit Yang Yao at Dongting Lake.
	9 February	Taizong died.
	10 February	Emperor Xizong of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
1139		Chongzong died.
		Chongzong's son Emperor Renzong of Western Xia became emperor of Western Xia.
1141		Song signed the Treaty of Shaoxing, under which it relinquished all claims to its former territories north of the Huai River and agreed to pay Jin an annual tribute in silk and silver.
1142	27 January	Yue was executed on false charges of treason spurred by the Song chancellor Qin Hui.
1150	9 January	Xizong was murdered in a coup by Wanyan Liang, who succeeded him as emperor of Jin.
1153		The Jin capital was moved from Huining Prefecture to Zhongdu.
1157		The Jin capital was moved to Kaifeng.
1161	27 October	Wanyan Liang's cousin Emperor Shizong of Jin was declared emperor of Jin in the capital Kaifeng.
	16 November	Battle of Tangdao: The Jin navy suffered heavy losses in an attempted invasion of Song near the Shandong Peninsula.
	27 November	Battle of Caishi: Jin forces suffered as many as four thousand casualties at the hands of the Song dynasty in a naval battle which stalled their invasion across the Yangtze.
	15 December	Wanyan Liang was assassinated by one of his officers near the Yangtze battlefront.
		The Yunjing was compiled.
1162	24 July	Gaozong abdicated in favor of Emperor Xiaozong of Song.
		The Beisi Pagoda was completed.
1164		Song and Jin concluded the Treaty of Longxing.
1165		The Liuhe Pagoda was completed.
1179		Zhu Xi rebuilt the White Deer Grotto Academy.
1189	20 January	Shizong died. He was succeeded by his grandson Emperor Zhangzong of Jin.
	18 February	Xiaozong abdicated in favor of his son Emperor Guangzong of Song.
		The Chengling Pagoda was built.
1193		Renzong died.
		Renzong's son Emperor Huanzong of Western Xia became emperor of Western Xia.
1194	24 July	Guangzong was forced to abdicate in favor of his son Emperor Ningzong.

13th century

Year	Date	Event
1206		Huanzong was overthrown in a coup.
		Emperor Xiangzong of Western Xia became emperor of Western Xia.
1208	29 December	Zhangzong died. He was succeeded by his brother Wanyan Yongji.
1211		Emperor Shenzong of Western Xia deposed and replaced Xiangzong as emperor of Western Xia.
	August	Battle of Yehuling: The army of the Mongol Empire captured or killed over four hundred thousand Jin soldiers defending an important mountain pass at Zhangjiakou.
1213	11 September	Wanyan Yongji was assassinated.
	22 September	Emperor Xuanzong of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
1214		The Jin dynasty signed a treaty under which it became a vassal state paying tribute to the Mongol Empire.
1215	1 June	Battle of Zhongdu: Mongol forces breached the walls of Zhongdu and massacred its inhabitants.
1217		Jin–Song Wars: A Song army captured the Jin city of Xihezhou in modern Xihe County.
1223		Shenzong abdicated in favor of his son Emperor Xianzong of Western Xia.
1224	14 January	Xuanzong died.
	15 January	Xuanzong's son Emperor Aizong of Jin became emperor of the Jin dynasty.
	17 September	Ningzong died. He was succeeded by Emperor Lizong.
1226		Xianzong died.
		Emperor Mozhu of Western Xia became emperor of Western Xia.
1227	18 August	The Mongol khagan Genghis Khan died.
		Mozhu surrendered to the Mongol Empire during the siege of the Western Xia capital Zhongxing.
1233	26 February	Mongol siege of Kaifeng: The Jin general in charge of the defense of the capital Kaifeng surrendered to the besieging Mongol army. Aizong had fled during the siege; his family members still in the city were executed.
1234	9 February	Siege of Caizhou: Aizong passed the throne to his general Emperor Mo of Jin and hanged himself in the face of a Mongol siege of Caizhou. The Mongols breached the city.
	10 February	Siege of Caizhou: Mo died fighting the Mongols at Caizhou.
1247		Qin Jiushao wrote the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections.
1259	11 August	The Mongol khagan Möngke Khan died during a siege of Diaoyu Fortress.
1260		Toluid Civil War: Möngke's brother Ariq Böke declared himself khagan of the Mongol Empire.
	5 May	Toluid Civil War: Kublai Khan, brother to Möngke and to Ariq Böke, was crowned khagan of the Mongol Empire.
		Kublai appointed the Sakya lama Drogön Chögyal Phagpa Imperial Preceptor.
1261		Yang Hui first drew Pascal's triangle.
1264	16 November	Lizong died. He was succeeded by his nephew Emperor Duzong.
1265		Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty: The Mongol Empire invaded Song.
1267		Battle of Xiangyang: Kublai ordered his general Aju to take Xiangyang.
1270		Sambyeolcho Rebellion: The Sambyeolcho rebelled against Wonjong of Goryeo, the Mongol-allied king of Goryeo.
1271		Marco Polo left Venice.
		Kublai declared himself emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1273	14 March	Battle of Xiangyang: The Yuan army breached and captured Xiangyang.
1274	12 August	Duzong died. He was succeeded by his young son Emperor Gong of Song.
	5 October	Mongol invasions of Japan: A Yuan fleet landed at Tsushima Island.
1275		The Yuan general Bayan of the Baarin defeated a Song army led by the chancellor Jia Sidao.
1276	4 February	Gong and his great aunt the grand empress dowager Xie Daoqing surrendered themselves to the Yuan army besieging the Song capital Lin'an City.
	14 June	Gong's older brother, the young Emperor Duanzong, was crowned emperor of the Song dynasty at Fuzhou.
		Qian Xuan retired.
		The Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory was built.
1278		The Song general Wen Tianxiang was captured by Yuan forces.
	8 May	Duanzong died.
	10 May	Duanzong's younger brother Emperor Bing of Song became emperor of the Song dynasty.
1279	19 March	Battle of Yamen: A Yuan fleet destroyed a vastly superior Song force near Yamen. The Song chancellor Lu Xiufu drowned himself with Bing.
1287		The Zhongdu-born Rabban Bar Sauma left for Europe as an ambassador of Arghun, the khan of the Ilkhanate.
	December	Battle of Pagan: Yuan forces captured the Pagan capital Bagan.
1288		Battle of Bạch Đằng: Đại Việt decisively defeated a numerically superior Yuan invasion fleet on the Bạch Đằng River.
1289		Europeans in Medieval China: Franciscan friars first conducted missionary work in China.
1294	18 February	Kublai died.
	10 May	Kublai's grandson Temür Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1293		John of Montecorvino arrives in China and is appointed Archbishop of Khanbaliq (Beijing).
1298		Wang Zhen invented movable wooden type.

14th century

Year	Date	Event
1307	10 February	Temür died.
	21 June	Temür's nephew Külüg Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1311	27 January	Külüg died.
	7 April	Külüg's younger brother Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1316		Guo Shoujing died.
1320	1 March	Ayurbarwada died.
	19 April	Ayurbarwada's son Gegeen Khan became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1323	4 September	Gegeen was assassinated by the Asud in a coup led by the Khongirad grand censor Tegshi.
	4 October	Yesün Temür became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1324		Zhongyuan Yinyun was published.
1328	15 August	Yesün Temür died.
	October	Yesün Temür's son Ragibagh Khan was appointed emperor of the Yuan dynasty in Shangdu.
	16 October	The Yuan general El Temür crowned Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür emperor in Khanbaliq.
	14 November	Forces loyal to El Temür captured Shangdu and may have executed Ragibagh.
1329	27 February	Tugh Temür's brother Khutughtu Khan Kusala crowned himself emperor of the Yuan dynasty in Karakorum with the support of the Chagatai Khanate.
	3 April	Tugh Temür abdicated in Khutughtu's favor.
	30 August	Khutughtu died, probably after being poisoned by Tugh Temür.
	8 September	Tugh Temür was crowned emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1330		The Pagoda of Bailin Temple was completed.
1332	2 September	Tugh Temür died.
	23 October	El Temür crowned Khutughtu's young son Rinchinbal Khan emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
	14 December	Rinchinbal died.
1333	19 July	Rinchinbal's older brother Toghon Temür became emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1334		Wang Dayuan travelled to North Africa.
1342		Papal missionary Giovanni de Marignolli leaves Europe for Khanbaliq (Beijing).
1351		Red Turban Rebellion: The millenarian White Lotus sect first plotted armed rebellion against the Yuan dynasty.
1352		Red Turban Rebellion: The Hongwu Emperor joined the rebellion.
1356		Red Turban Rebellion: The rebel army captured Nanjing.
1363	30 August	Battle of Lake Poyang: A Red Turban fleet commanded by the Hongwu Emperor met a fleet led by Chen Youliang, the self-proclaimed king of the rebel state of Han, on Poyang Lake.
	4 October	Battle of Lake Poyang: The Han navy was destroyed. Chen Youliang was killed.
1368	20 January	Red Turban Rebellion: The Hongwu Emperor declared himself emperor of the Ming dynasty.
	September	Toghon Temür fled Khanbaliq for Shangdu in the face of a Ming advance.
1371		Ming implemented the haijin, a ban on all private maritime commerce.
1373		The Hongwu Emperor abolished the imperial examination in favor of a recommendation system for appointing local Ming officials.
		The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees was rebuilt.
1375	16 May	Liu Bowen died.
1380		The Hongwu Emperor abolished the office of chancellor and took over direct control of the Three Departments and Six Ministries.
1382	6 January	Ming conquest of Yunnan: Basalawarmi, the prince of Liang and a Yuan loyalist, committed suicide during a massive Ming invasion of Yunnan.
		The Jinyiwei was established and given supreme judicial authority and complete autonomy in making arrests and issuing punishments.
1384		The Hongwu Emperor reinstituted the imperial examination.
1397		A legal code based on the Tang Code was implemented in Ming.
1398	24 June	The Hongwu Emperor died.
	30 June	The Hongwu Emperor's young grandson the Jianwen Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.

15th century

Year	Date	Event
1402	13 July	Jingnan Campaign: Forces loyal to the Jianwen Emperor's uncle the Yongle Emperor entered the capital Nanjing and burned the imperial palace with the Jianwen Emperor inside.
1405	11 July	Treasure voyages: The Yongle Emperor ordered a fleet of Chinese treasure ships under the command of the admiral Zheng He to reestablish tributary relationships with states in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean.
		The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum was completed.
1406		Construction began on the Forbidden City and Beijing city fortifications.
1407	10 April	The Kagyu karmapa Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama arrived at the Ming capital Nanjing.
	16 June	Ming–Hồ War: Ming forces captured the Hồ king Hồ Hán Thương.
1408		The Yongle Encyclopedia was completed.
1415		Restoration work on the Grand Canal was completed.
1420		Construction of the Forbidden City and Beijing city fortifications was completed. The Yongle Emperor moved the Ming capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
		The Ming tombs were built.
1424	12 August	The Yongle Emperor died.
	7 September	The Yongle Emperor's son the Hongxi Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1425	29 May	The Hongxi Emperor died, probably from a heart attack.
	27 June	The Hongxi Emperor's son the Xuande Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1427		Shen Zhou was born.
1431		Ming recognized the Lê dynasty as a tributary state.
1435	31 January	The Xuande Emperor died.
	7 February	The Xuande Emperor's son the Zhengtong Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1443		The Zhihua Temple was built.
1446		The Precious Belt Bridge was rebuilt.
1449	1 September	Tumu Crisis: A Four Oirat force defeated a vastly superior Ming army at Tumu in modern Huailai County and captured the Zhengtong Emperor.
	22 September	The Zhengtong Emperor's brother the Jingtai Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1457	11 February	The Zhengtong Emperor overthrew the Jingtai Emperor in a coup and took power as the Tianshun Emperor.
1461	7 August	Rebellion of Cao Qin: An uprising of Mongol soldiers in the Ming capital Beijing, led by the general Cao Qin, was crushed.
1464	23 February	The Zhengtong Emperor died.
	28 February	The Zhengtong Emperor's son the Chenghua Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
		The Miao and Yao peoples rebelled against Ming authority in Guangxi.
1473		The Zhenjue Temple was completed.
1487	9 September	The Chenghua Emperor died.
	22 September	The Chenghua Emperor's son the Hongzhi Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1488		The Joseon official Choe Bu suffered a shipwreck in Zhejiang.

16th century

Year	Date	Event
1505	8 June	The Hongzhi Emperor died.
	19 June	The Hongzhi Emperor's son the Zhengde Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1510	12 May	Prince of Anhua rebellion: Ming tax collectors were murdered on the orders of Zhu Zhifan, the prince of Anhua in modern Shaanxi.
1511	15 August	Capture of Malacca: A Portuguese invasion force conquered the Malacca Sultanate.
1513		The Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares arrived on Lintin Island in the Pearl River Delta.
1516		The Portuguese explorer Rafael Perestrello arrived in Guangzhou.
1517		The Portuguese ambassadors Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires arrived in Guangzhou.
1519	10 July	Prince of Ning rebellion: The prince of Ning Zhu Chenhao declared that the Zhengde Emperor was an usurper and led an expedition toward Nanjing.
1521	20 April	The Zhengde Emperor died.
	27 May	The Zhengde Emperor's cousin, the Chenghua Emperor's grandson the Jiajing Emperor, became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
		The Jiajing Emperor expelled the Portuguese embassy.
1529		Wang Yangming died.
1530		An improved sand-driven mechanical clock was invented.
1549		Portuguese trade ships first stopped at Shangchuan Island.
1550		The Mongol chieftain Altan Khan burned and looted the Ming capital Beijing and its suburbs.
1553		The Ming capital Beijing was expanded to the south, increasing its size from 10 to 12 square kilometres (4 to 4+1⁄2 square miles).
1554		The Luso-Chinese agreement (1554) for Macau is made between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Ming dynasty.
1556	23 January	1556 Shaanxi earthquake: An earthquake in and around modern Shaanxi killed some eight hundred thousand people.
1557		The Kingdom of Portugal established a permanent settlement in Macau.
1558		Ming forces led by Qi Jiguang dealt the wokou a defeat at Cengang.
1567	23 January	The Jiajing Emperor died.
	4 February	The Jiajing Emperor's son the Longqing Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
		The Ming haijin (ban on private maritime commerce) was repealed.
1572	5 July	The Longqing Emperor died.
	19 July	The Longqing Emperor's son the Wanli Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1573		Spain established a permanent base at Manila.
1574		Qin Liangyu was born.
1576		The Pagoda of Cishou Temple was built.
1577		The Wanshou Temple was built.
1580		The grand secretary Zhang Juzheng instituted the single whip law, under which all monetary and labor obligations to the central government were consolidated into a single silver payment.
1582		Jesuit China missions: The Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Macau.
		Private newspapers were first published in Beijing.
1584		The earliest known depiction of the sailing carriage appeared.
1587		Li Shizhen published the Compendium of Materia Medica.
1590		Wu Cheng'en wrote Journey to the West.
1592		Japanese invasions of Korea: Some two hundred thousand Japanese troops invaded Joseon.
1593	8 January	Siege of Pyongyang: A combined Ming-Joseon force drove the Japanese army from Pyongyang.
1597	23 December	Siege of Ulsan: A combined Ming-Joseon force arrived at the Japanese-controlled Ulsan Japanese Castle.
1598	29 September	Battle of Sacheon: A Japanese army under siege at Sacheon drove off a numerically superior Ming-Joseon force after the accidental explosion of the Ming powder cache.
	16 December	Battle of Noryang: The allied navies of Ming and Joseon dealt heavy damage to a Japanese fleet attempting to break their blockade of Suncheon Japanese Castle.
		The Peony Pavilion was first performed at the Pavilion of Prince Teng.

17th century

Year	Date	Event
1602		The Dutch East India Company (VOC) began shipping Chinese ceramics to Europe.
1604		The grand secretary Gu Xiancheng reopened the Donglin Academy in Wuxi, establishing the Donglin movement.
1607		Euclid's Elements was first translated into Chinese.
1609		Sancai Tuhui was published.
1610		Jin Ping Mei was published.
1615		The Zihui was compiled.
1616	17 February	Nurhaci declared himself khan of the later Jin dynasty.
		All foreign Jesuits were expelled from the Ming imperial court and astronomy bureau.
1619	18 April	Battle of Sarhu: The last of four Ming armies was destroyed during a retreat from a punitive expedition against Nurhaci and the later Jin. Its commander Li Rubai committed suicide
		Wang Fuzhi was born.
1620	18 August	The Wanli Emperor died.
	28 August	The Wanli Emperor's son the Taichang Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
	26 September	The Taichang Emperor died.
	1 October	The Taichang Emperor's young son the Tianqi Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
1624		The VOC established the state of Dutch Formosa.
1626		Johann Adam Schall von Bell wrote the first Chinese language treatise on the telescope.
		The Jesuit Nicolas Trigault invented the first system for the romanization of Chinese.
		Battle of Ningyuan: A Ming force defended Xingcheng against a numerically superior later Jin army. Nurhaci suffered fatal wounds.
1627	January	First Manchu invasion of Korea: Nurhaci's son Hong Taiji, the khan of the later Jin dynasty, invaded Joseon.
	30 September	The Tianqi Emperor died.
	2 October	The Tianqi Emperor's younger brother the Chongzhen Emperor became emperor of the Ming dynasty.
	13 December	The eunuch Wei Zhongxian committed suicide on hearing that the Jinyiwei had issued a warrant for his arrest.
		The Zhengzitong was published.
		The Polish Jesuit Michał Boym first introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system into Chinese astronomy.
1632		The later Jin dynasty conquered Inner Mongolia.
1634		The Chongzhen Emperor acquired the telescope of the late Johann Schreck.
1635		Liu Tong wrote a preface to the Dijing Jingwulue.
1637	30 January	Second Manchu invasion of Korea: The Joseon king Injo of Joseon recognized Hong Taiji's Qing dynasty as the legitimate rulers of China.
		Song Yingxing published the Tiangong Kaiwu.
1638		The Peking Gazette first used moveable type.
1639		Xu Guangqi published a treatise on agriculture.
		Chen Hongshou arrived in Beijing.
1641	8 March	Xu Xiake died.
1642		1642 Yellow River flood: The Ming governor of Kaifeng destroyed the levees holding back the Yellow River in order to break the siege of the peasant army of Li Zicheng. The resulting flood destroyed Kaifeng and killed some three hundred thousand people.
		A Han army was made the last of the Qing Eight Banners.
1643	21 September	Hong Taiji died.
	8 October	Hong Taiji's young son the Shunzhi Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1644	25 April	The Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself from the Zuihuai as the army of Li Zicheng's Shun dynasty breached the walls of the Ming capital Beijing.
	27 May	Battle of Shanhai Pass: A Shun army was dealt a heavy defeat by the Qing and the former Ming general Wu Sangui at Shanhai Pass.
	4 June	Li Zicheng fled Beijing.
1645	20 May	Yangzhou massacre: Qing forces conquered Yangzhou from the Southern Ming. A ten-day massacre began in which some eight hundred thousand people would be killed.
1653	January	The 5th Dalai Lama, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, visited the Qing capital Beijing.
1659		Jesuits Martino Martini and Ferdinand Verbiest arrived in China.
1661	5 February	The Shunzhi Emperor died. He was succeeded by his young son the Kangxi Emperor, with the Four Regents of the Kangxi Emperor acting as regents.
	14 June	The Southern Ming admiral Koxinga declared the establishment of the Kingdom of Tungning on Taiwan.
1662	1 February	Siege of Fort Zeelandia: The VOC surrendered Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan to Koxinga.
1664		Schall von Bell was imprisoned.
1673		Revolt of the Three Feudatories: Wu rebelled against the Qing dynasty on the pretext of seeking to restore the Ming.
1682		The Belgian Jesuit Antoine Thomas arrived in China.
1683		Battle of Penghu: A Qing fleet destroyed the Tungning navy at Penghu. The king of Tungning Zheng Keshuang surrendered to the Qing.
1684		The first of the Qing Thirteen Factories, neighborhoods where foreigners were allowed to live and trade, were established outside Guangzhou.
1689	27 August	The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia, under which the two countries mutually agreed to a border at the Stanovoy Range.
1690		Yun Shouping died.
1698		The Lugou Bridge was reconstructed.

18th century

Year	Date	Event
1705	4 December	The papal legate Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon arrived in the Qing capital Beijing.
1711		The East India Company (EIC) established a trading post in Guangzhou.
		The Peiwen Yunfu was completed.
1715	19 March	Chinese Rites controversy: The pope Pope Clement XI issued a papal bull forbidding veneration of the dead and worship of Confucius among Chinese converts to Catholicism.
1716		The Kangxi Dictionary was published.
1720		Chinese expedition to Tibet: A Qing expedition expelled the invading forces of the Dzungar Khanate from Tibet.
1721		Chinese Rites controversy: The Kangxi Emperor banned Christian missions in China.
1722	20 December	The Kangxi Emperor died.
	27 December	The Kangxi Emperor's son the Yongzheng Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1725		The Gujin Tushu Jicheng was completed.
1729		Opium criminalized in China.
1732		Jiang Tingxi died.
1735	8 October	The Yongzheng Emperor died. He was succeeded by his son the Qianlong emperor.
1750		The French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot was sent to China.
1755		Ten Great Campaigns: The khan of the Dzungar Khanate surrendered to invading Qing forces.
		The Puning Temple was built to commemorate the defeat of the Dzungar Khanate.
1760		The Canton System was established, under which the Chinese merchants operating in the Thirteen Factories were organized into a guild, the Cohong, and given an official monopoly.
1771		The Putuo Zongcheng Temple was completed.
1774		The Wenjin Chamber was built.
1780		A pagoda was built at Fragrant Hills.
1782		The Siku Quanshu was completed.
1791		Dream of the Red Chamber was published.
1793	14 September	Macartney Embassy The British ambassador George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney was introduced to the Qianlong Emperor.
1796	9 February	The Qianlong Emperor abdicated in favor of his son the Jiaqing Emperor.
		White Lotus Rebellion: White Lotus began an armed rebellion against the Qing dynasty.

19th century

Year	Date	Event
1807		Protestant missions in China 1807–1953: The Protestant missionary Robert Morrison arrived in China.
1820	2 September	The Jiaqing Emperor died.
	3 October	The Jiaqing Emperor's son the Daoguang Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1823		The Bible was first published in Chinese.
1839	3 June	Destruction of opium at Humen: The Qing Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of roughly a thousand tons of opium seized from EIC merchants in Humen.
1842	29 August	First Opium War: The Qing dynasty and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Nanking, under which the former agreed to end the monopoly of the Cohong, pay reparations for the war and the destruction of opium, and cede Hong Kong Island in perpetuity.
1844		Wei Yuan published the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms.
	3 July	The Qing dynasty and the United States signed the Treaty of Wanghia, according to which the United States was granted most favoured nation (MFN) status and extraterritoriality was granted to its citizens resident in China.
1850	25 February	The Daoguang Emperor died.
	9 March	The Daoguang Emperor's son the Xianfeng Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1851	11 January	Jintian Uprising: The followers of Hong Xiuquan, who believed him to be the younger brother of Jesus, announced their rebellion against the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in modern Guiping.
1855		Third plague pandemic: A plague pandemic began in Yunnan which would kill hundreds of thousands in China and millions worldwide.
		Punti-Hakka Clan Wars: An ethnic conflict began in Guangdong between the Punti and Hakka peoples which would claim roughly a million lives.
1856	23 October	Second Opium War: The British navy began a bombardment of Guangzhou.
1858	28 May	The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Aigun, ceding to Russia the land north of the Amur River.
	June	Second Opium War: The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Tientsin, under which foreigners were granted greater freedom of movement within China and France and the United Kingdom were promised war reparations.
	18 November	Battle of Sanhe: A Taiping army encircled and destroyed a much smaller Qing force in Anhui.
1860	18 October	Second Opium War: British and French forces looted and burned down the Old Summer Palace in the Qing capital Beijing.
	24 October	The Qing prince Prince Gong signed the Convention of Peking, ratifying the Treaty of Tientsin and ceding the Kowloon Peninsula in perpetuity to the United Kingdom.
1861		Gong established the Zongli Yamen to temporarily supervise the conduct of foreign affairs throughout the Qing government.
	22 August	The Xianfeng Emperor died.
	11 November	The Xianfeng Emperor's young son the Tongzhi Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1862		Dungan Revolt: A disordered uprising began among the Hui people living on the west bank of the Yellow River.
		The Tongwen Guan school of European languages was established.
1864	May	The Ever Victorious Army of the Qing dynasty was disbanded.
1868	22 August	Yangzhou riot: Scholar-officials resident in Yangzhou instigated a riot in which the headquarters of the British missionary society OMF International were attacked and burned.
		Nian Rebellion: The last of the rebel armies was destroyed.
1870	June	Tianjin massacre: A riot took place in Tianjin in which some sixty people, including foreigners and Chinese Christians, were killed.
1871		Li Hongzhang was appointed Viceroy of Zhili.
1873		Panthay Rebellion: The last surviving Panthay rebels were defeated by the Qing dynasty in Tengchong.
1875	12 January	The Tongzhi Emperor died.
	21 February	Margary Affair: The British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was murdered with his retinue in Tengchong.
	25 February	The young Guangxu Emperor became emperor of the Qing dynasty, with the empress dowagers Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi acting as regents.
1876	21 August	The Qing dynasty and the United Kingdom signed the Chefoo Convention, under which Qing promised to punish those responsible for Margary's murder and repeal the likin.
1884	23 August	Battle of Fuzhou: A French fleet destroyed the Qing Fujian Fleet at the mouth of the Min River.
1887	September	The Yellow River flood kills up to 2 million people and makes an additional 2 million homeless. At the time, it was the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded.
1891		Foreign businessmen established the Shanghai Sharebrokers' Association in Shanghai.
1894	1 August	First Sino-Japanese War: War was officially declared between Japan and the Qing dynasty.
1895	17 April	First Sino-Japanese War: The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which it recognized the independence of Joseon, granted Japan MFN status and ceded to it Penghu, Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula.
1898	11 June	Hundred Days' Reform: The Guangxu Emperor instituted reforms including radical changes in the imperial examination and the elimination of sinecures.
	21 September	The Guangxu Emperor was removed from the imperial palace in a coup organized by Cixi and Ronglu, the Viceroy of Zhili.
1900	21 June	Boxer Rebellion: Cixi responded to anti-foreign unrest by issuing the Imperial Decree of declaration of war against foreign powers in the Guangxu Emperor's name.

20th century

Year	Date	Event
1901	7 September	Boxer Rebellion: The Qing dynasty and Eight-Nation Alliance signed the Boxer Protocol, under which the Alliance was granted war reparations and the right to station troops in the capital Beijing.
1908	14 November	The Guangxu Emperor died of arsenic poisoning.
	2 December	The Guangxu Emperor's young nephew Puyi became emperor of the Qing dynasty.
1911	27 April	Second Guangzhou uprising
	10 October	Wuchang uprising: New Army soldiers staged a mutiny in Wuchang District and occupied the residence of the Viceroy of Huguang.
	29 December	1911 Republic of China provisional presidential election: Sun Yat-sen was elected president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, with a majority of sixteen of the seventeen provincial representatives of the Tongmenghui in Nanjing.
1912	1 January	Xinhai Revolution: Sun Yat-sen was inaugurated president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.
	12 February	Xinhai Revolution: Puyi's regent, the empress dowager Empress Dowager Longyu, signed an edict under which Puyi would retain his imperial title but all power would pass to the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.
	10 March	Sun Yat-sen resigned in favor of Yuan Shikai.
	25 August	The Tongmenghui and several smaller revolutionary parties merged to form the Kuomintang (KMT).
		1912 Republic of China National Assembly election: An election to the National Assembly under the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China began which would produce pluralities for the KMT in the House and Senate.
1913	20 March	Assassination of Song Jiaoren: Song Jiaoren, founder of the KMT was assassinated, most likely by then-president Yuan Shikai.
1915	8 January	Japan issued the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China, including demands for territory in Shandong, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, rights of extraterritoriality for its citizens in China, and influence in China's internal affairs.
	15 September	Chen Duxiu founded the magazine New Youth.
	12 December	Yuan declared himself the Hongxian Emperor of the Empire of China.
		The progressive, anti-Confucian New Culture Movement was founded.
	25 December	National Protection War: The republican generals Cai E and Tang Jiyao declared the independence of Yunnan from the Empire of China.
1916	16 June	Yuan died.
1919	4 May	May Fourth Movement: A student protest against the Treaty of Versailles took place at Tiananmen.
	28 June	The Treaty of Versailles, among whose provisions was the transfer of German territories in Shandong to Japan, was signed.
1921	1 June	The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded.
	4 December	The first installment of Lu Xun's novel The True Story of Ah Q, the first work written in written vernacular Chinese, was published.
1923	January	The Radio Corporation of China was founded.
		The KMT and CPC agreed to the First United Front, under which Communists would join the KMT as individuals to help combat warlordism.
1925	26 January	Sun Yat-sen, China's Father of the Nation, dies from cancer.
1926	9 July	Northern Expedition: The KMT general Chiang Kai-shek launched an expedition of some hundred thousand National Revolutionary Army (NRA) soldiers from Guangdong against the warlords Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang.
1927	12 April	Shanghai massacre of 1927: KMT forces led by Chiang attack Communist allies in Shanghai, initiating a full-scale purge of Communists in regions under KMT control.
	1 August	Nanchang uprising: Communist forces launched an uprising against the KMT in Nanchang.
1928	7 May	Jinan Incident: The Japanese general Hikosuke Fukuda tortured and killed seventeen of Chiang's representatives in Jinan.
	4 June	Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin's train was blown up by the Japanese Kwantung Army, killing him.
	10 October	Chiang became chairman of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China.
1931	July	Encirclement Campaign against Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet: The NRA encircled and invested the Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet.
	July	1931 China floods: Flooding began in the valleys of the Yellow, Yangtze and Huai Rivers, which would claim as many as four million lives. As of 2019, it was the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded.
	18 September	Mukden Incident: In a false flag operation against the Republic of China, Japanese agents set off a dynamite explosion near a South Manchuria Railway line.
		Japanese invasion of Manchuria: The Kwantung Army invested all Manchurian territory along the South Manchuria Railway.
	7 November	The Chinese Soviet Republic was established in Ruijin.
	15 December	Chiang resigned under pressure from the KMT. Lin Sen became acting chairman of the Nationalist government.
1932	1 January	Lin Sen became chairman of the Nationalist government.
	28 January	January 28 Incident: Japanese aircraft carriers began bombing Shanghai in a series of raids which would kill some four thousand soldiers of the 19th Route Army and as many as twenty thousand Chinese civilians.
	4 February	Defense of Harbin: Japanese bombs and artillery forced the Jilin Self-Defence Army to retreat from Harbin.
	18 February	The independent state of Manchukuo was established on the territory of Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
	9 March	Pacification of Manchukuo: The Big Swords Society rebelled en masse against the government of Manchukuo.
1934	February	Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling established the quasi-fascist New Life Movement.
	16 October	Long March: The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army broke through the KMT lines attempting to encircle them at Ganzhou.
1935		Japan opened a biological warfare operation called Unit 731 in Manchukuo.
	5 February	First Encirclement Campaign against Hubei–Henan–Shaanxi Soviet: Red Army forces forced the retreat of a KMT army attempting to encircle the soviet of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi.
	9 December	December 9th Movement: A student protest took place in Beijing demanding internal liberalization and stronger anti-Japanese resistance.
1936	12 December	Xi'an Incident: Zhang Xueliang arrested Chiang in Xi'an due to concerns he was insufficiently committed to anti-Japanese resistance.
1937	7 March	Marco Polo Bridge Incident: Roughly one hundred Chinese soldiers were killed defending the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing from a Japanese attack.
	22 September	The KMT and CPC joined to establish the Second United Front. The Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies, which were nominally part of the NRA chain of command.
	25 September	Battle of Pingxingguan: The Eighth Route Army wiped out a Japanese force of a few hundred attempting to bring supplies through Pingxing Pass.
	26 October	Battle of Shanghai: The NRA began withdrawing from downtown Shanghai in the face of a Japanese onslaught.
	10 December	Battle of Nanking: The Japanese Central China Area Army launched a full-scale assault on Nanjing.
	13 December	Nanking massacre: Nanjing fell to the Japanese Central China Area Army. A six-week massacre began in which tens of thousands of women were raped and as many as three hundred thousand civilians were killed.
1938	18 February	Bombing of Chongqing: The Japanese army and naval air services began a bombing campaign against civilian targets in Chongqing which would kill some ten thousand people.
	7 April	Battle of Taierzhuang: The Japanese army was forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses in an attempted conquest of Tai'erzhuang District.
	5 June	1938 Yellow River flood: KMT forces destroyed a major dyke in an effort to create a flood to slow down Japanese forces. Nearly a million citizens died.
1939	1 September	The nominally independent Mengjiang was established on the Mongol territories of the Japanese-occupied Chahar and Suiyuan provinces.
	17 September	Battle of Changsha: The Japanese army attacked Changsha.
1940	20 August	Hundred Regiments Offensive: Communist NRA soldiers under Peng Dehuai began a campaign of terrorism and sabotage against Japanese targets in North China.
1941	1 February	The Communist official Mao Zedong gave a speech in Yan'an entitled "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature," establishing the Yan'an Rectification Movement and beginning an ideological purge which would claim some ten thousand lives.
	30 September	Battle of Changsha: A Japanese army began a general retreat after failing to take Changsha.
1942	15 January	Battle of Changsha: A Japanese army crossed the Xinqiang River after suffering heavy losses in a failed attempt to conquer Changsha.
1943	1 August	Lin Sen died. Chiang became acting chairman of the Nationalist government.
	27 November	Cairo Conference: Chiang, United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British prime minister Winston Churchill issued the Cairo Declaration, under which the three powers expressed their desire for the independence of Korea and the return of Chinese territories.
1944	27 May	Battle of Changsha: The Japanese army launched a general offensive against Changsha.
1945	26 June	The United Nations Charter establishing the United Nations (UN) was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center by fifty nations including China.
	6 August	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: As many as eighty thousand Japanese, largely civilians, were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by a United States aircraft.
	9 September	Surrender of Japan: Japanese forces in China formally surrendered to Chiang Kai-shek.
	25 October	Surrender of Japan: China regains control of Taiwan from Japan and was proclaimed as Retrocession Day. Chen Yi of the Kuomintang was appointed Chief Executive.
	November	Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Northeast China: The Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched a campaign against bandits and KMT guerillas in northeast China.
1946	20 July	Chinese Civil War: The NRA invaded PLA-held territory en masse.
1947	28 February	February 28 Incident: Nationalist forces violently suppressed an anti-government protest in Taiwan Province.
	25 December	The Constitution of the Republic of China came into force, dissolving the Nationalist government and renaming the NRA the Republic of China (ROC) Armed Forces.
1948	2 November	Liaoshen Campaign: The last ROC garrison in Manchuria, in Yingkou, retreated in the face of a PLA advance.
	15 December	Huaihai Campaign: The PLA encircled an ROC army in Xuzhou.
1949	21 January	Chiang resigned the presidency of the Republic of China due to military failures and under pressure from his vice president Li Zongren, who succeeded him as acting president.
	31 January	Pingjin Campaign: The PLA took Beijing.
	23 April	Chinese Civil War: The PLA conquered the ROC capital Nanjing. The ROC moved its capital to Guangzhou.
	1 October	Mao declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
	10 December	The ROC moved its capital from Chengdu to Taipei.

After 10 December 1949, the history of the Republic of China continues at Timeline of Taiwanese history.

1950	5 March	Landing Operation on Hainan Island: Chinese forces landed on ROC-controlled Hainan.
	25 June	Korean War: The North Korean army launched a 135,000-man surprise assault across the 38th parallel into South Korea.
	25 November	Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River: The Chinese 38th Group Army broke the UN line between the 7th Infantry Division and 8th Infantry Division in the valley of the Chongchon River.
		Mass executions of political prisoners took place in the Canidrome.
1951	23 May	Representatives of the Dalai Lama of Tibet the 14th Dalai Lama and of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China signed the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, which guaranteed Tibetan autonomy within China and called for the integration of the Tibetan Army into the PLA.
1952	January	The five-anti campaign, which encouraged accusations against the bourgeoisie of crimes such as bribery and tax evasion, was founded. see Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns
1953		The first of the five-year plans of China, which called for construction of heavy industry, began to be carried out.
1956		An outbreak of the Influenza A virus subtype H2N2 occurred in China.
1957	27 February	Mao published a speech entitled "On the Correct Handling of the Contradictions Among the People," marking the founding of the Hundred Flowers Campaign which encouraged criticism of the government and the Communist Party.
	July	Mao instigated the Anti-Rightist Movement during which hundreds of thousands of alleged rightists, including many who had criticized the government during the Hundred Flowers Campaign, were purged from the CPC or sentenced to labor or death.
1958		Great Leap Forward: The CPC led campaigns to massively overhaul the Chinese economy and society with such innovations as collective farming and the use of backyard furnaces.
		Mao launched the Four Pests Campaign, which encouraged the eradication of rats, flies, mosquitos and sparrows.
1959	10 March	1959 Tibetan uprising: A rebellion broke out in the Tibetan regional capital Lhasa after rumors the government was planning to arrest the 14th Dalai Lama at the local PLA headquarters.
		Great Chinese Famine: A famine began which would claim as many as forty million lives over three years.
1960	16 April	Sino-Soviet split: A CPC newspaper accused the Soviet leadership of "revisionism."
1962	20 October	Sino-Indian War: The PLA attacked Indian forces across the Line of Actual Control.
1964	5 January	Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung was first published.
	16 October	596: The Chinese government detonated its first nuclear weapon at Lop Nur.
		The second of two volumes of Simplified Chinese characters ordered by the State Council of the People's Republic of China was published.
1966	19 August	Cultural Revolution: The CPC launched a campaign to destroy the Four Olds.
		The Three-Self Patriotic Movement, the sole government-sanctioned Protestant church, was abolished.
1968		Deng Pufang was thrown from a third-story window at Peking University by Red Guards, crippling him.
	22 December	The People's Daily published an editorial entitled "We too have two hands, let us not laze about in the city," invigorating the Down to the Countryside Movement under which the sent-down youth, many former Red Guards, were relocated from the cities to the country.
1969	2 March	Sino-Soviet border conflict: PLA forces attacked the Soviet Border Troops of the Soviet Union on Zhenbao Island, killing 59.
	1 October	The Beijing Subway opened in Beijing.
1970	24 April	China launched Dong Fang Hong I, its first satellite.
1971	July	United States secretary of state Henry Kissinger visited Beijing.
13 September	Cultural Revolution: Lin Biao dies in mysterious air crash after failed coup.
25 October	China and the United Nations: The People's Republic of China is admitted to the United Nations, replacing the Republic of China.
1972	28 February	1972 Nixon visit to China: The United States and China issued the Shanghai Communiqué pledging to normalize relations during the visit of the former's president Richard Nixon.
1974	19 January	Battle of the Paracel Islands: Some fifty South Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a Chinese conquest of the Paracel Islands.
1976	8 January	The premier Zhou Enlai died.
	5 April	Tiananmen Incident: Some four thousand people were arrested during a protest against the removal of wreaths, flowers and poems laid at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Zhou's memory.
	27 July	1976 Tangshan earthquake: An earthquake with its epicenter near Tangshan killed roughly a quarter of a million people.
	9 September	Mao died.
	6 October	The Gang of Four, a political faction including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, was arrested on the orders of the premier Hua Guofeng.
	7 October	Hua became Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1977		Beijing Spring: A brief period of political liberalization began.
1978	11 October	The poet Huang Xiang pasted pro-democracy, anti-Mao poems on the Democracy Wall in Beijing.
	December	The Communist official Deng Xiaoping became paramount leader of China.
	December	Chinese economic reform: Economic liberalization measures including the replacement of collective farming with the household-responsibility system began to be instituted.
	December	Deng Xiaoping first advocated for the Four Modernizations, of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology.
1979	1 January	China and the United States issued the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, under which the latter recognized the PRC as the legitimate government of China and terminated its participation in the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan.
	6 March	Sino-Vietnamese War: China declared that the punitive objective of its invasion of Vietnam had been achieved and began to retreat.
	30 March	Deng Xiaoping declared in a speech the Four Cardinal Principles not subject to debate within China.
1980		The first of the Special Economic Zones of China, characterized by low regulation and the encouragement of foreign investment, were established.
	28 June	Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–90: Chinese forces began shelling the Vietnamese Cao Bằng Province.
	18 September	The one-child policy, under which Chinese couples are heavily fined for additional children after their first, with some exceptions, came into force, and then phased out in 2015.
1984	19 December	The Sino-British Joint Declaration, under which China and the United Kingdom agreed to the transfer of Hong Kong to China and the preservation there of democracy and capitalism under the one country, two systems model, was signed during the visit of the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
1988	14 March	Johnson South Reef Skirmish: The PLA took control of the Johnson South Reef after a short naval battle in which some seventy Vietnamese soldiers were killed.
1989	15 April	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: A crowd gathered at the Monument to the People's Heroes.
	4 June	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Anywhere from 1 to 5 thousand people brutally murdered in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
	24 June	Jiang Zemin became General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
1990		Shanghai Stock Exchange re-opened on 26 November and began operation on 19 December.
1991		The first McDonald's restaurant in mainland China opened in Beijing.
1992		Deng Xiaoping traveled south to reassert the economy policy.
1993	27 April	Wang–Koo summit took place in Singapore: the first public meeting between figures of non-governmental organization (NGO) since 1949.
1994	8 December	1994 Karamay fire: A fire at a theater in Karamay killed some three hundred people.
1997	19 February	Deng Xiaoping died.
	1 July	Hong Kong handover ceremony: A ceremony marked the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
		The term Great Firewall was coined to describe the tools of Internet censorship in China.
1998	June	1998 China floods: China experienced massive flooding including floods of the Yangtze River, the Nen River, the Songhua River and the Pearl River. Chinese People's Liberation Army earned people's respects because of their heroic behaving against the floods.
1999	7 May	United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade: United States bombers under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
	22 July	The Chinese government declared the religious organization Falun Gong illegal.
	20 December	Transfer of sovereignty over Macau: Sovereignty over Macau was transferred from Portugal to China.
2000		China passed Japan as the country with which the United States has the largest trade deficit.

21st century

Year	Date	Event
2001	23 January	Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident: Five declared by Chinese government members of Falun Gong may have burned themselves to death in Tiananmen Square.
	1 April	Hainan Island incident: A United States intelligence aircraft was intercepted and forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan.
	10 November	World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2001: China joined the World Trade Organization, subjecting it to that body's free trade and dispute resolution agreements.
2002	16 November	An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome began in Guangdong.
2003	15 March	Hu Jintao succeeded Jiang Zemin as president.
	15 October	China launched its first manned space mission Shenzhou 5.
2004	19 September	Jiang Zemin resigned his position as chairman of the Central Military Commission of the CPC.
2005	14 March	The Anti-Secession Law was passed, reasserting China's desire for peaceful reunification with Taiwan and its right to resolve the issue by force.
	15 April	2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations: Mass demonstrations against Japan took place.
	13 November	2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions: A series of explosions at a chemical plant in Jilin City killed six and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands.
2007	7 May	2007 Chinese slave scandal: A local television station first reported on missing children kidnapped to work as slaves at brickyards in Shanxi.
	10 July	Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, was executed for corruption.
	3 August	The State Administration for Religious Affairs issued State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5, which required tulkus who planned to be reincarnated to submit an application to the government.
	24 October	The lunar orbiter Chang'e 1 was launched.
2008	25 January	2008 Chinese winter storms: A series of severe winter storms began which would claim over a hundred lives.
	1 May	The Hangzhou Bay Bridge opened to the public.
	12 May	2008 Sichuan earthquake: An earthquake with its epicenter in Wenchuan County killed nearly seventy thousand people.
	16 July	2008 Chinese milk scandal: Sixteen infants were diagnosed with kidney stones in Gansu after drinking formula contaminated with melamine.
	8 August	2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony: A ceremony marked the beginning of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
	6 September	2008 Summer Paralympics: The thirteenth Paralympic Games began in Beijing.
	27 September	The astronaut Zhai Zhigang completed China's first spacewalk on Shenzhou 7.
2009	5 July	July 2009 Ürümqi riots: A riot of some thousand Uyghurs began which involved ethnic violence against the Han in Ürümqi.
	1 October	60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China: A military parade on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing commemorated the establishment of the PRC.
2010	14 April	2010 Yushu earthquake: An earthquake with its epicenter in Yushu killed as many as three thousand people.
	1 May	Expo 2010: A world's fair began in Shanghai.
2011	21 September	Wukan protests: Farmers in Wukan attacked a government building due to the government's seizure without compensation of their farmland.
	29 September	Tiangong-1 was launched as China's first prototype space station.
2012	6 February	Wang Lijun incident: Wang Lijun, a deputy of Bo Xilai, the Party Committee Secretary of Chongqing, sought refuge at a United States consulate.
	4 July	The Three Gorges Dam went into operation.
	19 August	2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations: Anti-Japanese protests took place in China due to a dispute over ownership of the Diaoyu Islands.
	15 November	18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2013		One Belt, One Road was proposed to connect and cooperate among countries primarily between China and rest of Eurasia.
	29 September	The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone was established.
	28 October	2013 Tiananmen Square attack: A car was driven into a crowd in Tiananmen Square, killing the driver and two passengers, Uyghurs associated with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and two pedestrians.
	14 December	The lunar lander Chang'e 3 landed on the moon.
2014		China became the world's second largest economy.
	1 March	2014 Kunming attack is a terrorist attack, killing 31 civilians and injuring more than 140 others. No group or individual stepped forward to claim responsibility for the attack.
2015	17 June	2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence started.
	3 September	2015 China Victory Day Parade was held on the Tiananmen Square.
2016	4 September	2016 G20 Hangzhou summit was held in the city of Hangzhou.
	15 September	Tiangong-2 was launched with mission of more than ten scientific experiments.
2017	25 October	Xi Jinping was re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
2018	March	Xi Jinping removed his term limits.
2019	1 October	70th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China military parade held in Tiananmen Square
	December	First case of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan.
2020	30 June	Hong Kong national security law passed.

Timeline of Chinese dynasties

See also: Dynasties in Chinese history

Timeline of major Chinese dynasties and states

See also

Cities in China

• Timeline of Fuzhou
• Timeline of Guangzhou
• Timeline of Hangzhou
• Timeline of Nanjing
• Timeline of Shanghai
• Timeline of Hong Kong history

Related

• Timeline of Taiwanese history
• Timeline of Tibetan history

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Further reading

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Published in the 19th century

• George Henry Townsend (1867), "China", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "China". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.

Published in the 20th century

• Charles E. Little (1900), "China", Cyclopedia of Classified Dates, New York: Funk & Wagnalls – via Internet Archive
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "China", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776 – via Hathi Trust

Published in the 21st century

• Ian Preston, ed. (2001). "People's Republic of China". Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. pp. 32–64. ISBN 978-1-135-35680-4.
• David B.H. Denoon, ed. (2007). "Chronology of Recent Events (1993– )". China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-2140-7.
• Lawrence R. Sullivan (2007). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6443-6.
• "China and the world comparative timeline" (PDF). China: Journey to the East. British Museum. 2009.
• James Z. Gao (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6308-8.
• Xinzhong Yao; Yanxia Zhao (2010). "Timeline for Chinese Religion". Chinese Religion: a Contextual Approach. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-1-84706-476-9.
• Rongxing Guo (2011). "Historical Chronology (1949– )". Introduction to the Chinese Economy. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-82675-1.
• Lawrence R. Sullivan; Nancy Y. Liu (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7855-6.

External links

• BBC News. "China Profile: Timeline".
• Chinese History and Dynasties
• "Timeline of Chinese History and Dynasties". Asia for Educators. USA: Columbia University.
• "China". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Freer Gallery of Art. "China History Timeline". Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015.