A mutiny broke out among the troops in Wuchang, and this is regarded as the beginning of the downfall of the Qing dynasty.
The boy emperor was made to abdicate the throne. The constitution should thenceforth be republican.
The GMD is founded. This party was the ruling party in China from 1928 until there defeat against the CCP.
Students from colleges in Beijing held a mass demonstration against the decision to transfer the former German concessions in Shandong province to Japan.
Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao led the founding of the CCP.
The Shanghai massacre was the violent suppression of CCP organizations and leftist elements in Shanghai by forces supporting GMD.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria began as a Japanese Army unit fired artillery shells at a Chinese Army garrison at Beidaying.
Start Long March, with defeat imminent, the Communists decided to break out of the GMD encirclement at its weakest points.
A GMD regiment broke the Second United Front by attacking the headquarters of the CCP’s New Fourth Army.
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
A ceasefire took effect at midnight between the CCP and GMD. The USA mediated between GMD and CCP.
Start Civil War. The Battle of Siping was fought between the CCP and GMD forces in Jilin. It took place after the Soviet Army withdrew, and resulted in a CCP victory.
In Double Tenth Agreement, the CCP and the GMD mutually recognized each other, as the two parties planned to form a coalition government. The full-scale civil war soon resumed in 1946
The National Assembly, without the CCP or the left wing of the centrist CDL, adopted a new constitution
Agreement between the US and China on economic aid.
The CCP proclaimed the North China People’s Government.