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First Protestant Christian missionary arrives in China from the London Missionary Society.
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First Opium War, Britain imposes an unequal treaty on China and takes Hong Kong.
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Second Opium War; Britain and France defeat China and impose harsh Treaties of Tientsin.
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First Sino-Japanese War, former tributary Japan defeats China and takes Korea
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Young men in Shandong form Righteous Fist groups, practicing martial arts and traditional spiritualism
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Boxers attack Liyuantun village's Catholic church, converted from a temple to the Jade Emperor.
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China declares itself as a republic with Sun Yat-Sen as first president. Shihkai attempts to restore the monarchy but fails, and after his death, the country was left without a strong central leader, and descends into a period controlled by warlords.
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Chinese Communist party was founded in Shanghai. Mao Ze Dong leads and establishes revolutionary headquarters.
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Sun Yat Sen dies, Chiang Kai-shek assumes leadership and reunifies China under Nationalist government.
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Civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists results in the Communists’ victory; the Nationalist government evacuates.
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Mao Ze dong begins Rural Collectivisation based on a five-year plan. Individual landownership is abolished and replaced with cooperatives.
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The “Great Leap Forward” plan calls for an unrealistic increase in industrial and agricultural production. All land is collectivized and farmers are organized into People’s Communes.
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Mao declares the goal of passing Great Britain in industrial production by 1972, steel production furnaces were created across the country. However, the steel produced is of poor quality and the agricultural reforms cause one of the largest famines in human history, with an estimated 30 million deaths from starvation.