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• 1911: Xinhai Revolution. An Army revolt marks the beginning of the Republic.
• 1912: Sun Yat-sen is made first provisional President of the Republic.
  • Guo Min Dang (KMT), The National People’s Party is founded.
  • Emperor Xuan Tong resigns.
  • Yuan Shikai becomes provisional President.
• 1915: Japan presents its Twenty-One Demands.
• 1916: Warlords struggle for power after the death of Yuan Shikai.
• 1919: May Fourth Movement.
• 1921: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is formed.
• 1921-1922: Nine Power Treaty.
• 1923: Chiang Kai-shek becomes head of the Huangpu Military Academy.
• 1925: Sun Yat-sen dies.
  • May 30th incident.
• 1926-1927: Mao Zedong organizes the peasants of Hunan Province.
• 1927: Chiang Kai-shek turns on the leaders of the labor unions and the Communist Party. Many are killed.
  
• 1928: Capital is moved to Nanjing.
  • Most of China is under KMT control.
  • Japanese blow up Zhang Zuolin’s train.
• 1929-1931: Disastrous famine.
• 1930-1934: Chiang Kai-shek leads five encirclement campaigns against the Communists.
• 1931: Mukden Incident. 
  • Japanese take Manchuria.
• 1934-35: The Long March of the Communist Party.
• 1936: Xian Incident. Attempted coup against Chiang.
• 1937: Incident at Marco Polo Bridge. Begins Second Sino-Japanese War. Communist Eight Route Army Formed.
• 1938: Japanese take much of China. Communists filter in behind enemy lines and fight guerrilla war against Japanese.
  
• 1940: Puppet government under Wang Jingwei is established.
• 1941: New Fourth Army Incident
  
• 1945: Japanese surrender.
• 1946: KMT and CCP agree to a cease fire. Cease fire does not last.
• 1948: CCP takes Manchuria and northern China.
• 1949: Chiang Kai-shek and KMT retreat to Taiwan.

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