-
Mao Zedong gathers a large crowd in Tianenman Square, Beijing, and proclaims the formation of the People’s Republic of China.
-
Marriage Law passed, outlawing polygamy, arranged and child marriages, making it easier for divorces.
-
CHina started controlling Tibet's government province.
-
The Five Antis campaign begins.
-
Armistice signed to help start the end of the fighting in the Korean War.
-
Several Western nations form the South East Asia Treaty Organisation to help “contain communism”.
-
A year of widespread famine whipes across China.
-
Mao orders a halt to the Hundred Flowers campaign.
-
Mao unwraps a plan to produce steel.
-
The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernise China’s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that it would be better than America's.
-
Mao visits a steel factory in Manchuria and learns that his plans can not possibly work.
-
More than a thousand people in Shanghai are murdered by the Red Guards or chose to commit suicide.
-
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.
-
Mao idevelopes a ‘Down to the Countryside’ movement, migrating students into rural areas.
-
US president Richard Nixon travels to China and meets Mao, Zhou Enlai and other leaders.
-
The death of Mao Zedong from motor neurone disease.