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Chinese History Timeline

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

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

1927-1936, 1941-1950 Chinese Civil War

1934 Long March

1949 People's Republic of China founded

1958-1960 Great Leap Forward

1959 Dalai Lama flees from Tibet to India

1966 Cultural Revolution begins

1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon visits China

1976 Death of Mao Zedong

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre/Martial Law in Tibet

1990-1998 Uighur uprisings against Chinese rule

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