The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 marked a monumental turning point in Asian Cold War history. Driven by the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the civil war, it shifted the regional balance of power, established a major socialist state, and deeply influenced subsequent revolutionary and state-building movements across East Asia.
People
Birth Death Origin Age (Death)
1886
1893
1897
1898
1898
1904
1905
1907
1914
1917
1921
1935
Timeline
Category
Element
Year
Founding of the PRC
1886
Birth of Zhu De (Period: December 1, 1886, Location: Ma'an Town (Lijiawan), Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, China)
1893
Birth of Mao Zedong (Period: December 26, 1893, Location: Shaoshan Chong, Shaoshan City, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China (formerly Xiangtan County))
1897
Birth of Ye Jianying (Period: April 28, 1897, Location: Jiaoying Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Qing Empire (now Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China))
1898
Birth of Zhou Enlai (Period: March 5, 1898, Location: Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province)
Birth of Liu Shaoqi (Period: November 24, 1898, Location: Tanzi Chong, Huaminglou Town, Ningxiang City, Changsha City, Hunan Province, China)
1904
Birth of Deng Xiaoping (Period: August 22, 1904, Location: Paifang Village, Xiexing Town, Guang'an District, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, China)
1905
Birth of Chen Yun (Period: June 13, 1905, Location: Qingpu County, Jiangsu Province, Qing Empire (now Qingpu District, Shanghai, China))
1907
Birth of Lin Biao (Period: December 5, 1907 (Some sources state born in 1906), Location: Around Huilongshan Town, Tuanfeng County, Huanggang City, Hunan Province, China (formerly Huanggang County))
1914
Birth of Jiang Qing (Period: March 19, 1914, Location: Zhucheng County, Shandong Province, Republic of China (now Zhucheng, Weifang, Shandong, China))
1917
Enrollment in Yunnan Military Academy (Ye Jianying)
Birth of Zhang Chunqiao (Period: February 1, 1917, Location: Hexia City, Shandong Province, Republic of China (now Juye County, Heze, Shandong, China))
1921
Birth of Hua Guofeng (Period: February 16, 1921, Location: Jiaocheng County, Shanxi Province, Republic of China (now Jiaocheng County, Lüliang, Shanxi, China))
1924
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Feng Hua)
Assuming Office as Deputy Director of the Instructors Department at Whampoa Military Academy (Ye Jianying)
1925
Labor Movement at the Shanghai Commercial Press
Joining the Chinese Communist Party
May Thirtieth Movement
1926
Northern Expedition
1927
Agrarian Revolutionary War
Chinese Civil War
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Ceng Xianzhi)
Nanchang Uprising
Guangzhou Uprising
1930
Marriage (Chen Yun, Yu Ruomu)
Acting Career in Shanghai
1931
Marriage (Jiang Qing, Pei Minglun)
1933
Joining the Chinese Communist Party
1934
Participation in the Long March
1935
Participation in the Zunyi Conference
Birth of Wang Hongwen (Period: December 1935 (exact date unknown), Location: Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Lüyuan District, Changchun, Jilin, China))
1936
Marriage (Jiang Qing, Tang Na)
1937
Second Sino-Japanese War
Relocation to Yan'an (Jiang Qing)
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Wei Gongzhi)
Assuming Office as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army (Ye Jianying)
1938
Joining the Jiaocheng Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Unit
Marriage to Mao Zedong
Marriage (Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong)
1940
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Wu Bo)
1945
Participation in the Fenxiao Campaign
1946
Chinese People's Liberation War
1948
Marriage (Ye Jianying, Li Gang)
1949
Marriage (Hua Guofeng, Han Zhijun)
Reporting and Propaganda Activities for Liberation Daily and Other Outlets
Assignment to Hunan Province
Establishment of the People's Republic of China
Establishment of the PRC and Liberation of Guangzhou
1950
Enlistment in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Wang Hongwen)
Korean War
1951
Participation in the Korean War
1955
Appointment as Marshal
1956
Employment at Shanghai No. 17 Cotton Mill
1958
Criticism of the Great Leap Forward
Marriage (Wang Hongwen, Cui Gendi)
Publication of "Break the Idea of Bourgeois Rights"
1959
Assuming Office as First Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee (Hua Guofeng)
1960
Promotion of Revolutionary Model Plays
1966
Cultural Revolution
Joining the Central Cultural Revolution Group
Assuming Office as Deputy Leader of the Central Cultural Revolution Group (Jiang Qing)
Formation of the Shanghai Workers' Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters
Anting Incident
1967
January Storm in Shanghai (Shanghai Power Seizure Movement)
January Storm in Shanghai and the Shanghai People's Commune Concept
Establishment of the Shanghai People's Commune and Shanghai Power Seizure Movement
February Adverse Current
Assuming Office as Vice Director of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee (Wang Hongwen)
Assuming Office as Director of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee (Zhang Chunqiao)
1969
Assuming Office as Member of the CCP Politburo (Jiang Qing)
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