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1919
college students staged a series of demonstrations to protest the terms of the Versailles Treaty -
1949
Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China. -
1966-76
The Cultural Revolution -
1976
Tiananmen Incident Where police came and attacked -
1978
Four Modernizations -
1979
United States and the People's Republic of China formally establish diplomatic relations -
1981
Hu Yaobang is appointed as the Party General Secretary -
1986
college students in several cities stage demonstrations to demand political reform -
1987
Hu Yaobang is accused of being soft on the student protests and on "bourgeois liberalism -
1988
slow the pace of economic reforms, a setback for Zhao Ziyang. -
1989
People began to gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu and voice their discontents. -
1989
three student representatives carry a petition and kneel on the steps of the Great Hall in front of the 100,000 students who have gathered in the Square the night before -
1989
small handful of plotters -
1989
Ignoring warnings of violent suppression -
1989
foreign bankers -
1989
Several hundred students begin a hunger strike at Tiananmen Square in the afternoon. -
1989
hunger strike, -
1989
Li Peng summons several student leaders for a televised talk at the Great Hall of the People. Nothing is achieved -
1989
The government's plan for martial law is leaked to student leaders, who call off the hunger strike and declare a mass sit-in -
1989
The government formally declares martial law in Beijing -
1989
The troops pull back to the outskirts of Beijing. -
1989
The Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters is set up. Chai Ling is named Commander-in-Chief. -
1989
The resolution is announced at a press conference in the Squa -
1989
The Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters rejects the May 27th resolution to end the occupation of Tiananmen Square. -
1989
The ten-meter-high Goddess of Democracy is unveiled -
1989
At 5:00 pm, Liu Xiaobo, Hou Dejian, Zhou Duo and Gao Xin start a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. -
1989
Troops receive orders to reclaim Tiananmen Square at all cost -
1989
Around 1:00 am, troops surround Tiananmen Square and await further orders. -
1989
Deng Xiaoping, in a nationally broadcast television appearance, speaks to the commanders of the martial-law units