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Zheng He set sail from Nanjing on his first voyage in 1405 with a fleet of hundreds of ships.
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In 1433, after traveling nearly 35,000 miles to thirty nations on seven voyages, Zheng He retired and soon died.
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In 1436, the emporer forbade the building of ships and overseas voyages.
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In 1448, flooding of the Yellow River left millions homeless and thousands of acres unproductive.
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in 1477, the vice president of the Ministry of War argued that "the expeditions to the West Ocean wasted tens of myriads [too many to count] of money and grain and moreover the people who met their deaths may be counted in the myriads.
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In 1525, the government destroyed all overseas ships
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In, 1700s british began smuggling from India into China a narcotic know as Opium in order to open chinese trade markets.
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In 1700 the first shipments were brought over which was only 200 chests of opium
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The British began distributing massive amounts of opium in order to eliminate the competition.
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Britains expanding sales of opium to China cause the opium war of 1839. China wanted sales stopped and destroyed an opium shipment at Guangzhou
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In 1840 the last shipments were carrying over 40,000 chests of opium
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The war ended in 1842 with a treaty favorable for the victorious British.
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On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was formally established, with its national capital at Beijing.
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On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Throughout 1959, there was an increased rate of starvation in addition to the decline of industrial plants because of a lack of profit motive. After this failure, Mao ordered for the “Great Proletariat Revolution”, which had people abandon capitalistic ideas, ending in chaos and myriad deaths.
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1964, The Red Book, Mao’s thoughts in political indoctrination (brainwashing).
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When Mao finally died in 1976 Deng Xiaoping quickly changed the educational and economic policies of Mao. China adopted many aspects of free-market capitalism and has been one of the fastest growing economies in modern times.
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In 1977 China was afraid the USSR was going to attack them so Nixon visited China to form a relationship and get help
