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Chinese History Timeline

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of Chinese History from the Peking Man through the modern day.

758 Arab and Persian pirates sack port city of Guangzhou

c. 800 Invention of woodblock printing

907-979 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

907-1125 Liao Dynasty

960-1279 Northern and Southern Song Dynasties

1038-1227 Western Xia Dynasty

1088 First magnetic compass described

1115-1234 Jin Dynasty

1260-1294 Reign of Emperor Kublai Khan

1260- 1295 Journeys of Marco Polo (?)

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