China

459 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for China, 1644 CE to 2008 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

17th century

156 entries, 1644 CE to 1695 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1644February and April 1644 - Battle of Beijing fought between forces of the Ming Dynasty and rebel forces led by Li ZichengChina source
1646February 1646 — Qing armies seized land west of the Qiantang River from the Lu regime and defeated a ragtag force representing the Longwu Emperor in northeastern Jiangxi.China source
1659At the behest of Hong Chengchou, the Qing court grants Wu Sangui own fiefdom, effectively gaining all civilian and military control in Yunnan province.China source
1662February 1 — Siege of Fort Zeelandia concludes with Dutch forces in Taiwan surrendering to Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga)China source
1662June 23 — Koxinga dies in Anping, Taiwan of Malaria, his son Zheng Jing takes over the Zheng regime, later leading the remaining 7,000 Ming loyalist troops to TaiwanChina source
1663Dafo Temple, a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou is rebuilt and expanded by Shang Kexi. The building has been devastated by years of war and neglectChina source
1664A planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning led by Admiral Shi Lang and supported by the Dutch fleet in Taiwan fails to occurChina source
1665Another planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning fails to occur due to a typhoonChina source
1667Qing emissary Kong Yuanzhang is sent to Taiwan to convince Zheng Jing to surrender. Zheng refuses, citing prosperous trading conditionsChina source
1668Tianhou Temple (Anping) built in TaiwanChina source
1668Fang Weiyi (1585-1668, 方維儀) a Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historianChina source
1671Because poor, marginal lands were exempted from the annual land tax, and the Qing court rewarded officials who could induce people to expand cultivated land. Therefore, the Viceroy of Chuan-Hu, Cai Yurong, observed that “there is an abundance of cultivated land in Szechwan, but there are not enough people to cultivate it,” the throne decreed that “those who were willing to settle in Szechwan were to be tax-exempt for a period of five years and that any local official who could attract three hundred immigrants would be promoted immediately. (See 湖廣填四川)China source
16731673, Wu's forces captured Hunan and Sichuan provincesChina source
1674Yunreng (6 June 1674 – 27 January 1725), born Yinreng, a Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty. He was the second among the Kangxi Emperor's sons to survive into adulthood and was designated as Crown Prince for two terms between 1675 and 1712 before being deposedChina source
1675Mishan (米思翰; 1633–1675), served as the Minister of Revenue from 1669 to 1675, Grandfather of Empress Xiaoxianchun, consort to the Qianlong EmperorChina source
1677Kelden Gyatso (Kalden Gyatso, Kelden Repa, Tibetan: སྐལ་ལྡན་རྒྱ་མཚོ, Wylie: Skal ldan rgya mtsho) (1607-1677) was a 17th-century Tibetan poet, scholar, and siddhaChina source
1679A special examination for admission into the Hanlin Academy is held, the Emperor chooses as the topic a rhyme-prose (fu) on the xuanzhi and yuheng, instruments that were then thought to be part of the astronomical system used by the ancient sage-kings to chart the skiesChina source
1680Zheng Jing's forces were defeated near Xiamen in 1680 and forced to withdraw to Taiwan.China source
1681Empress Xiaojingxian (28 June 1681 – 29 October 1731), of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner Ula Nara clan, personal name Duoqimuli, was a consort of the Yongzheng Emperor. She was three years his junior.China source
1683The naval forces of the Ming loyalists on Taiwan—organized under the Zheng dynasty as the Kingdom of Tungning—were defeated off Penghu by 300-odd ships under the Qing admiral Shi Lang. Koxinga's grandson Zheng Keshuang surrendered Tungning a few days later and Taiwan became part of the Qing Empire. Zheng Keshuang moved to Beijing, joined the Qing nobility as the "Duke Haicheng" (海澄公), and was inducted into the Eight Banners as a member of the Han Plain Red BannerChina source
1684Yinju (胤䄔; 13 September 1683 – 17 July 1684), 19th son of Kangxi, born through an unnamed Noble Lady, of the Gorolo clan (貴人郭絡羅氏)China source
1686Wei Yijie (Chinese: 魏裔介; August 19, 1616 – April 27, 1686) was a prominent Han Chinese scholar and official serving in the early Qing Dynasty, during the rules of the Shunzhi Emperor, Oboi, and the Kangxi Emperor and was known for his focus and advocacy of the reformation the Examination system.China source
1688Empress Xiaozhuangwen (28 March 1613 – 27 January 1688), of the Khorchin Mongol Borjigit clan, personal name Bumbutai, was a consort of Hong Taiji. She was 21 years his junior.China source
1692Kangxi Emperor recognized Roman Catholic Church.China source
1694Wang Jun (Qing dynasty) (1694–1751), scholar and historian, taught at the Anding Academy in YangzhouChina source

19th century

136 entries, 1820 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1820April 1 — Benjamin Chew Wilcocks becomes Consul of the United States at the Port of CantonChina source
1828Guangyun Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County of Yunnan, China. first built in 1828 by the Yunnan governmentChina source
184127 February — Battle of First Bar, Nemesis sank Cambridge, an old, but re-armed East Indiaman that the Chinese had purchased.China source
1843the first Treaty Ports were openedChina source
1844The Chinese Union, an early Chinese Protestant Christian missionary society that was involved in preaching to Chinese and sending Chinese workers to mainland China during the late Qing dynasty was founded by Karl Gützlaff in 1844, Hong KongChina source
1847March — Treaty of Canton, the first treaty made between Sweden-Norway and the Chinese EmpireChina source
1848January — California Gold Rush starts, as gold was discovered at Sutters mill, which inspires thousands of Chinese people to travel to America, in search of gold.China source
1850Shen-kuang-szu Incident (1850–51)China source
1851Chui A-poo (?-1851), hangs himself before the British are able to exile him to Van Diemens LandChina source
1854the first Chinese laborers arrive in JamaicaChina source
1856Merchant ship Arrow seized by Qing authoritiesChina source
1858Treaty of Aigun, unequal treaty between the Russian Empire, and the empire of the Qing Dynasty that reversing the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) by transferring the land between the Stanovoy Mountains and the Amur River from China (Qing Empire) to the Russian Empire establishing much of the modern border between the Russian Far East and Manchuria (the original homeland of the Manchu people and the Qing Dynasty), which is now known as Northeast China.China source
1860July 16 — Frederick Townsend Ward's militia captures SongjiangChina source
1861Self-Strengthening Movement beginsChina source
1865Prince Gong steps down from regency but continues being head of the Grand CouncilChina source
1868Burlingame Treaty, also known as the Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868, was a landmark treaty between the United States and Qing China, amending the Treaty of Tientsin, one of the unequal treaties, to establish formal friendly relations between the two nations, with the United States granting China the status of most favored nation in tradeChina source
187560 to 70 Christian women in Amoy attended a meeting presided by a missionary John MacGowan formed the Heavenly Foot Society (tianzu literally meaning Heavenly Foot), opposing the practice of footbindingChina source
1877Woosung Road railway purchased and dismantled by Viceroy of Liangjiang Shen BaozhenChina source
1878Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren, Mongolian independence leaderChina source
1881July 20 - earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred in Gansu and Lanzhou.China source
1885March 24 — Battle of Bang Bo (Zhennan Pass)China source
1888Sikkim expedition, an 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim in present-day northeast India.China source
1891Jindandao incident, a rebellion by a Chinese secret society called Jindandao (金丹道), who rose in revolt in Inner Mongolia in November 1891 and massacred 150,000 Mongols before being suppressed by government troops in late December.China source
1896By 1896, China showed interest in Aksai Chin, reportedly a result of Russian instigation.China source
1898March 27 Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula or Pavlov Agreement for Russian DalianChina source

20th century

164 entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1900June 20 – August 14 — Siege of the International LegationsChina source
1902signing of the Mackay Treaty — a sixteen article treaty signed by the governments of Great Britain and the Chinese Qing dynasty on 5 September 1902. Under the terms of the treaty, the likin system of taxation was abolished and the first moves made to abolish extraterritoriality for foreign nationals.China source
1904Nov / Dec — The secret ‘Restoration Society’ is established in Shanghai by revolutionary intellectuals (see 1910)China source
1905The boycott originated when the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of San Francisco called upon the people of China to pressure the United States into treating the Chinese immigrants in America better.China source
1908December 2 — Aisin Gioro Puyi ascended the throne at the age of three as the Xuantong Emperor, the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty.China source
1910July 27 — On July 27, Qing Dynasty Government approved the loans from the foreign banks. (Shanghai rubber stock market crisis)China source
1911April 29 — Establishment of Tsinghua UniversityChina source
1913July 1913 — The Second Revolution was launched when seven southern provinces rebelled against Yuan ShikaiChina source
1915January 8 — Imperial Japanese government issues the Twenty-One Demands to the ChineseChina source
1920Establishment of the Republic of China Air ForceChina source
1922June 16 — Chen Jiongming, warlord of Guangdong, launched a coup against Sun Yat-sen, Great President of the Government of the Republic of China in GuangzhouChina source
1925Establishment of the National Revolutionary ArmyChina source
192721–27 March – Nanking IncidentChina source
1929July 25 – the Soviet government's Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Lev Karakhan, had issued a manifesto to the Chinese government promising the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Chinese control with no financial cost. (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))China source
1931November 4 — Resistance at Nenjiang BridgeChina source
193713 August – 26 November — Battle of ShanghaiChina source
1942mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi CampaignChina source
1945October 12 — Peip'ing C-46 crash near Beiping.China source
1949the Communist Party organised a "Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" (CPPCC) to prepare for the establishment of a "New Democracy" regime to replace the Kuomintang-dominated Republic of China governmentChina source
1957The Asian Flu killed around 1-2 million pe ple in China and Hong Kong.China source
1961Continuing Great Chinese FamineChina source
1970December 30 – Construction of the Gezhouba Dam started.China source
1976July 28 — An earthquake hit the region of Tangshan, Hebei Province at 3:42am. This was the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.China source
1982July 2 – Qidong (meteorite) fell to earthChina source
1989May 20 — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.China source

21st century

3 entries, 2008 CE to 2008 CE

2008March 14 – 2008 Tibetan unrest: Demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turn violent as rioters target government and Han Chinese-owned buildings.China source
2008September 18 – An open beta of the high-definition channel of the Chinese video sharing website Tudou, also known as Heidou, is released for public use.China source
2008August 18 – Gordey Kolesov, Russian-Chinese prodigyChina source