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Chinese History Timeline

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

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

1270-1368 Yuan Dynasty

1298 Invention of tin movable-type printing

1368-1644 Ming Dynasty

1405-1433 Admiral Zheng He explores as far as India, Arabia, and East Africa

1406 Construction begins on Forbidden City in Beijing

Mid-15th century isolation: Ming emperors close the borders

1516 First contact by Portuguese in Macau

1550 Mongol Altan Khan breaches Great Wall and loots Beijing

1556 Great Shaanxi Earthquake, approx. 850,000 people die

1557 Establishment of permanent Portuguese settlement at Macau

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