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Mao Zedong

1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

12 dated entries naming Mao Zedong, drawn from 11 separate years between 1893 CE and 1976 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1893December 26 – Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader, founder of the People’s Republic of China (d. 1976)source

20th century

  • 1931November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.source
  • 1935December 27 – In China, Mao Zedong issues the Wayaobu Manifesto, On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against the Japanese invasion.source
  • 1942February 1 – Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", starting the Yan'an Rectification Movement in the Chinese Communist Party.source
  • 1945August 19 – Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Chongqing to discuss an end to hostilities between the Communists and the Nationalists.12source
  • 1949April 20 – Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst goes up the Yangtze River, to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of Mao's Communist forces. Under heavy fire, she grounds off Rose Island. After an abortive rescue attempt on April 26, she anchors 10 mi km upstream. Negotiations with the Communists to let the ship leave drag on for weeks, during which time the ship's cat Simon raises the crew's morale.source
  • 1957Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" had been summarily liquidated in China between 1949 and 1954.source
  • 1959April 27 – National People's Congress elects Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of the People's Republic of China, as a successor of Mao Zedong.source
  • 1959September 30 – Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing.source
  • 1968December 22 – Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the countryside. It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement.source
  • 1972February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.source
  • 1976October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack.source

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