Chronology Portal
We are currently working on 62 chronology articles. Each decade from 1850 to 1950 will have its own article with entries for each year. This page lists major events during this period of East Asian History.
- Late Qīng 清末
- 1851 Xiánfēng Era 咸豐 begins
- 1857 Second Opium War
- 1862 Tóngzhì Era 同治 begins
- 1875 Guāngxù Era 光緒 begins
- 1898 Hundred-day Reforms
- 1900 Boxer Rebellion
- Early Republic
- 1912 Republic of China 中華民國 established
- Warlord Era
- 1916 Breakdown of centralized political rule, start of Warlord period
- 1919 May Fourth Movement
- Nanjing Decade
- 1928 Capital of Republic of China established in Nánjīng 南京
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1937 Start of full-scale war between China and Japan
- Civil War
- 1946 Full-scale civil war resumes between the Nationalists and Communists
- People's Republic
- 1949 People's Republic of China established in Běijīng 北京