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Important events in the history of China.
Major events in the history of China: some important events in the history of China.

1. Qin Shihuang unified China.

In the twenty-sixth year (the first 22 years1year), Qin Shihuang [Ying Zheng, the "first emperor of the ages"] destroyed six countries [Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Chu and Qi], unified the world, and formally established the Qin Dynasty. At the age of 39, he was called the "first emperor". Qin Shihuang unified the system and built the Great Wall, which made an important contribution in the history of China.

2. The Opium War (1840- 1842)

Sino-British Opium War, there were two opium wars in China's modern history: the first opium war: June 65438 to1August 842. The Second Opium War: 1856 10 month ~ 1860 10 month. The two Opium Wars gradually reduced old China to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society.

3. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (185 1- 1864)

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established by Hong Xiuquan in China in the late Qing Dynasty, and its predecessor was 1843. 185 1 year established the Taiping heavenly kingdom, 1853 set its capital in Tianjing, covering ten provinces in China. Until 1864, Tianjing fell and existed for 13 years. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom created many special cases in the history of China, organized forces in the name of western religions, which was officially recognized by China as "China Peasant Uprising" and "suppressed for the first time by Chinese and foreign forces". After shaving and changing clothes in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Army was also called a long-haired thief because it refused this custom.

4. The Reform Movement of 1898

The Reform Movement of 1898, also known as the Hundred Days Reform, was a political reform movement during the 24th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1June 8981-September 2 1). This reform advocated that Emperor Guangxu personally led the political system reform, and hoped that China would embark on the modernization road of constitutional monarchy. The helpless reform was opposed by the conservative forces of the Qing court, especially the Empress Dowager Cixi, and finally turned into a coup, and the reformists were killed. The failure of the Reform Movement made China lose a group of elites and supporters who were keen on national reform, and pushed China onto the road of revolution.

5. Xinhai Revolution 19 1 1 Revolution

The Revolution of 1911 was 19 1 1 year, and the Qing government betrayed the right to build a railway, which aroused the resistance of the domestic people, and the road protection movement broke out in Sichuan and other places. In June 19 1 1, 10, 10 Wuhan's revolutionary group Literature Society and the * * * Progressive Association launched the Wuchang Uprising, and then the provinces responded one after another because191/.

6. The New Democratic Revolution (19 19- 1949)

The new democratic revolution refers to the bourgeois democratic revolution led by the proletariat in colonial and semi-colonial countries in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. Its so-called "new" is 17- 18 century, which was led by the European and American bourgeoisie and aimed at overthrowing the oppression of feudal absolutism and establishing the old democratic revolution of bourgeois political rule.

7. The May 4th Movement of1919.

The May 4th Movement was an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement of China people, which broke out on May 4th 19 19. The May 4th Movement was the end of the old democratic revolution and the beginning of the new democratic revolution in China.

8. Nanchang Uprising (1927)

Nanchang Uprising on August 1st, often referred to as Nanchang Uprising or Bayi Uprising, also known as Nanchang Uprising, Nanchang Uprising and Nanchang mutiny, refers to the armed rebellion launched by the army of China's * * * production party forces in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, China on August 1927 against the policy of China Kuomintang.

9. September 18th Incident 18 Incident (193 1)

The September 18th Incident refers to the military conflict and political event that broke out in the northeast of China on September 193 1. The two sides of the conflict are the Northeast Army of China and the Japanese Kwantung Army. According to the date of the conflict, the history is called the September 18th Incident. Because the northeast of China was called Manchuria at that time, the Japanese called this incident Manchuria. After the September 18th Incident broke out, the contradiction between Japan and China further intensified, and the position of the Japanese headquarters as the main battle in Japan rose, which led Japan to embark on the road of full-scale aggression against China. Within a few years after this incident broke out, all the three northeastern provinces were occupied by the Japanese Kwantung Army, so they were regarded as national humiliation by the people of China. Until today, September 18 is called "National Shame Day" in many informal occasions in China.

10. Long March (1934- 1935)

The Long March was a strategic shift of the Red Army (the Central Red Army), the Red Second Army (the Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army joined forces), the Red Fourth Army and the Red 25th Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army from various Soviet areas to the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area from June 65438 to June 65438. Among them, the Red Army traveled more than 25,000 Li, so the Long March is often called the 25,000 Li Long Long March. At that time, the Kuomintang of China, which was hostile to China's * * * production party, called this incident "wandering in three places".

1 1. Xi' an incident (1936)

The Xi incident, also known as the Double Twelve Incident, was 1936 12 12, when Zhang Xueliang, then deputy commander-in-chief of the Northwest Anti-Bandit Army, and Yang Hucheng, then commander-in-chief of the 17th Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, detained Jiang Zhongzheng, then chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government and commander-in-chief of the Northwest Anti-Bandit Army, with the purpose of reorganizing the government and sending troops to fight against Japan. The Xi 'an incident was finally forced by Jiang Zhongzheng to

12. Lugouqiao Incident (1937)

The July 7th Incident, also known as the Lugouqiao Incident, was a Sino-Japanese military conflict that took place in Beiping, China1July 7th, 937. Japan launched an all-out attack on China. The July 7th Incident was deliberately created by Japanese imperialism to realize its ambition of annexing China, and it was the beginning of its full-scale invasion of China.

65438+ Nanjing Massacre

The Nanjing Massacre refers to the six-week-long war crime in which the Japanese invaders massacred, looted and raped China civilians and prisoners of war in the urban and suburban areas of Nanjing after they captured Nanjing, China in 1937+02+03. According to the research of China scholars, the number of casualties in the Nanjing Massacre in China exceeded 300,000, while Japanese scholars have different opinions, but some people tried to obliterate the facts.

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14. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937- 1945).

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China and Japan call it the Sino-Japanese War, and most western countries call it the Second Sino-Japanese War (the Sino-Japanese War is called the "First Sino-Japanese War"). It refers to the war caused by the invasion of the Republic of China by the Japanese Empire from the Lugouqiao Incident on July 7th, 937/kloc-0. The main battlefield is Chinese mainland, and the armies of the two countries fought fiercely for eight years until 65438+.

15. China People's Liberation War (1946- 1949)

The war of liberation, called the third revolutionary civil war, was fought by the China People's Liberation Army from August 1945 to September 1949, under the leadership of the China * * production party and with the support of the broad masses of the people, to overthrow the Kuomintang rule and liberate all China. The War of Liberation is the continuation and completion of the revolutionary war led by China's Producer Party, and it is also the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary struggle of China since the Opium War.