Shanghai

provincial-level municipality in China

16 dated entries naming Shanghai, drawn from 13 separate years between 1403 CE and 2010 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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15th century

  • 1403The Temple of a City God is constructed in Shanghai.source

16th century

  • 1553Shanghai is fortified for the first time.source

19th century

  • 1843November 17 – The city of Shanghai opens for trade with foreigners for the first time, welcoming a party of traders from the United Kingdom.source
  • 1876Woosung Road constructed in Shanghai, Jiangsusource
  • 1896February — Russo-Chinese Bank, opened a Shanghai branch.source

20th century

  • 1915May 15–21 – The Far Eastern Championship Games take place in Shanghai.source
  • 1927February 12 – British troops land in Shanghai as a result of UK government concerns about the safety of residents in the British settlement.source
  • 1927December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.source
  • 1932January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The Kuomintang's official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack Shanghai later in the month.source
  • 1932April 29 – Korean pro-independence paramilitary Yun Bong-gil detonates a bomb at a gathering of Japanese government and military officials in Shanghai's Hongkou Park, killing General Yoshinori Shirakawa and injuring Mamoru Shigemitsu and Vice Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura.source
  • 1949Tropical storm Irma kills 1,600 people and destroys more than 63,000 houses in Shanghai, the worst typhoon on record in the city.source
  • 1989April 21 – Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.source
  • 1996April 26 – Shanghai Five group, predecessor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, is created with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai by the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.source
  • 1999October 1 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport opens in China, becoming the primary international airport serving Shanghai and taking over all international flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.source

21st century

  • 2010May 1 – Expo 2010 is held in Shanghai, China.source
  • 2010October 31 – Expo 2010 concludes in Shanghai, China.source

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