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| 1966 | Biao, Lin Vice Chairman CCP |  |
| Appointed Vice Charman of the Communist Party |
| 1925 | Chen, Yun CCP Chen |  |
| Appointed Member of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1934 | Chen, Yun Politburo |  |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1939 | Ching, Chiang Marriage |  |
| Marries Mao Zedong |
| 1934 | Chuh, Teh Long March |  |
| Leads the First Front Army in the Long March |
| 1934 | Chuh, Teh Politburo |  |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1928 | Dazhao, Li Death |  |
| Executed under orders of Chiang Kaishek |
| 1919 | Dazhao, Li Editor |  |
| Appointed co-editor of "New Youth", a student Marxist magazine |
| 1928 | Dazhao, Li Execution of Dazhao |  |
| Executed under orders of Chiang Kaishek |
| 1925 | Deng, Yingchao Marriage |  |
| April Marries Chou En-Lai |
| 1945 | De, Zhu Commander |  |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief at the 7th Congress of the Communist Party |
| 1922 | Duxiu, Chen Comintern |  |
| The Chinese Communist Party joins the Comintern |
| 1923 | Duxiu, Chen Congress of CP, 3rd |  |
| Canton 3rd Congress of the Communist Party |
| 1925 | Duxiu, Chen Congress of CP, 4th |  |
| Shanghai 4th Congress of the Communist Party |
| 1919 | Duxiu, Chen Editor |  |
| Appointed co-editor of "New Youth", a student Marxist magazine |
| 1922 | Duxiu, Chen Party Leader |  |
| Shanghai Appointed Party Leader of the Communist Party |
| 1919 | En-Lai, Chou Awareness Society |  |
| 6th Sep Founds the "hard core" Awareness Society due to "demonstration fatigue" |
| 1898 | En-Lai, Chou Birth |  |
| 5th Mar Birth of Chou En-Lai |
| 1928 | En-Lai, Chou Congress of CP, 6th |  |
| Moscow Attends the 6th Party Congress in Moscow |
| 1946 | En-Lai, Chou Constitution |  |
| 10th Jan Makes an appeal for a coaltion Government at the People's Political Council |
| 1930 | En-Lai, Chou Cultural Revolution |  |
| Claims the Chinese Revolution will go through many stages & introduces gradualism |
| 1945 | En-Lai, Chou Declaration of War |  |
| 14th Aug Issues "Directive no 1" to march the PLA into former Japanese territory |
| 1919 | En-Lai, Chou Demonstrations |  |
| 10th May Nankai Arrives in Nankai University to organize student rebellion against western imperialism |
| 22nd Aug Beijing En-Lai organizes a demonstration in Beijing |
| 1946 | En-Lai, Chou Diplomacy |  |
| Meets George Marshall to discuss peace & shows Communists are independent of Russia |
| 1919 | En-Lai, Chou Editor |  |
| Appointed Editor of the "Tianjin Student" which sells 20,000 copies every 3rd day |
| 1935 | En-Lai, Chou Expulsion Communist Party |  |
| Expelled for backing Mao in the Long March by the rival faction led by Zhang Guotao |
| 1930 | En-Lai, Chou Gradualism |  |
| Claims the Chinese Revolution will go through many stages & introduces gradualism |
| 1927 | En-Lai, Chou Head Military Affairs Comm En Lai |  |
| Appointed Head of the Military Affairs Commission |
| 1931 | En-Lai, Chou Head Military Dept En Lai |  |
| Jan Appointed Head of the Military Dept |
| 1924 | En-Lai, Chou Head Whampoa Pol Dept En Lai |  |
| Appointed Head of the Poltical Department at the Whampoa Military Academy |
| 1937 | En-Lai, Chou Liaison Officer En Lai |  |
| Appointed CP Liaison Officer |
| 1936 | En-Lai, Chou Long March |  |
| Dec Xian Reaches Xian where Chiang Kaisek's forces are defeated |
| 1936 | En-Lai, Chou Peace |  |
| Makes a peace offer to create national unity |
| Proclaims a Communist offensive against the Japanese |
| 1927 | En-Lai, Chou Politburo |  |
| 18th July Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| Jan Shanghai Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1919 | En-Lai, Chou Rebellion |  |
| Tianjin Organizes Students Union "to struggle against the warlords & against imperialism" |
| 22nd Aug Tianjin The magazine "Tianjin Student" is closed down by the police |
| 1936 | En-Lai, Chou Reinstatement |  |
| Reinstated into the Communist Party after Zhang Guotao is defeated & joins Mao |
| 1931 | En-Lai, Chou Secretary CP |  |
| Dec Appointed Party Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 1928 | En-Lai, Chou Te Ke |  |
| Founds the Te Ke, "special department", to control the Communist Party |
| 1936 | En-Lai, Chou Xinnhua |  |
| Founds the Xinhua or the New China News Agency |
| 1969 | Guofeng, Hua Central Committee |  |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1976 | Guofeng, Hua Chairman CCP |  |
| 12th Oct Appointed Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1950 | Guofeng, Hua Deputy Governor |  |
| Hunan Appointed Deputy Governor of Hunan |
| 1921 | Guotao, Zhang Communist Party |  |
| A founder of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1931 | Hosen, Tsai Arrest |  |
| Hong Kong Arrested in Hong Kong & executed |
| 1922 | Hosen, Tsai Communist Party |  |
| Founds a branch of the Communist Party in France |
| 1931 | Hosen, Tsai Death |  |
| Hong Kong Death of Tsai Hosen, arrested in Hong Kong & executed |
| 1931 | Hosen, Tsai Execution of Hosen |  |
| Hong Kong Arrested in Hong Kong & executed |
| 1921 | Hosen, Tsai Exile of Hosen |  |
| Deported from France |
| 1921 | Hosen, Tsai Socialist Youth |  |
| Founds the Socialist Youth League |
| 1928 | Lisan, Li Congress of CP, 6th |  |
| Moscow 6th Congress of the Communist Party |
| 1928 | Lisan, Li Party Leader |  |
| Appointed Head of the Communist Party |
| 1928 | Lung, Ho Wuhan |  |
| Wuhan Establishes a military base at Wuhan |
| 1928 | Peng, Li Birth |  |
| Sichuan Birth of Li Peng, Sichuan Province |
| 1934 | Piao, Lin Long March |  |
| Commander of a Communist Army Corps during the Long March |
| 1945 | Shaoqi, Liu Deputy Chairman |  |
| Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party |
| 1922 | Teh, Chu Communist Party |  |
| Appointed Member of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1926 | Teh, Chu Exile of Teh |  |
| Expelled from Germany while attending the University of Gottingen |
| 1934 | Teh, Chu Politburo |  |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1922 | Tse-Tung, Mao Alliance |  |
| 1st Aug The CCP decides to collaborate with the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Party of China |
| July Mao co-ordinates the co-ordination between the CCP & Kuomintang |
| July Rupture between the Kuomintang & CCP |
| Pearl Harbour After Pearl Harbor the CP is forced into an Alliance with the Russian backed KMT |
| 1927 | Tse-Tung, Mao Arrest |  |
| The KMT issue an arrest warrant against Mao |
| 1927 | Tse-Tung, Mao Autumn Harvest Uprising |  |
| A young Communist leader, Mao Tse-Tung, organizes the Autumn Harvest Uprising, which fails |
| 1893 | Tse-Tung, Mao Birth |  |
| 26th Dec Shaoshan Birth of Mao Tse-Tung, Shaoshan in Hunan Province, year of the snake |
| 1923 | Tse-Tung, Mao Central Committee |  |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the CCP |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1931 | Tse-Tung, Mao Chairman CCP |  |
| Kiangsi Provinc Appointed Chairman of Soviet Republic of China |
| Appointed Party Central Committee Chairman |
| 21st Sep Peking Appointed Chairman of the People's Republic of China |
| 21st Sep Peking Appointed Chairman of the People's Republic of China |
| 1945 | Tse-Tung, Mao Chairman Military Council Tung |  |
| Appointed Chairman of the Military Council |
| 1931 | Tse-Tung, Mao Chairman Soviet |  |
| Ruijing Appointed Chairman of the Soviet at Ruijing |
| 1934 | Tse-Tung, Mao Chairman Soviet Ruijing |  |
| Ruijing Appointed Head of the Ruijin Soviet |
| 1921 | Tse-Tung, Mao Communist Party |  |
| Shanghai 1 of 13 in Shanghai who form the Chinese Communist Party |
| Hunan Forms a local branch of the Communist Party & a Marxist study group |
| 1935 | Tse-Tung, Mao Conference of Zunyi |  |
| Zunyi The Zunyi Conference establishes Mao's ascendancy within the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1922 | Tse-Tung, Mao Congress of ccp |  |
| 1st July Shanghai CCP Congress in Shanghai, Mao is absent |
| 1923 | Tse-Tung, Mao Congress of KMT |  |
| July Mao attends the 1st Congress of the Kuomintang |
| 1931 | Tse-Tung, Mao Constitution |  |
| Kiangsi Helps found the Soviet Republic of China |
| Nov Russian influenced CP members proclaim a Chinese Republic to stop China joining Japan |
| Wins supremacy in the Communist Party after overcoming Wang Ming |
| 1931 | Tse-Tung, Mao Declaration of Republic |  |
| Nov Russian influenced CP members proclaim a Chinese Republic to stop China joining Japan |
| 1919 | Tse-Tung, Mao Demonstrations |  |
| Peking Student riots in Peking |
| 1909 | Tse-Tung, Mao Education |  |
| Hsiangtan Mao enrols at Hsiangtan School |
| Changsha Mao enrols at Changsha School |
| 1927 | Tse-Tung, Mao Expulsion Tse Tung |  |
| Mao is excluded from the Central Committee |
| 1923 | Tse-Tung, Mao Kuomintang, The |  |
| Appointed Member of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintang |
| 1920 | Tse-Tung, Mao League of Socialists Youths |  |
| Hunan Mao Tse-Tung founds the League of Socialists Youths |
| 1920 | Tse-Tung, Mao Library of Culture |  |
| Mao Tse-Tung organises a "Library of Culture" |
| 1920 | Tse-Tung, Mao Marriage |  |
| Mao Tse-Tung marries Yang K'ai-hui |
| 1945 | Tse-Tung, Mao Peace |  |
| 28th Aug Chongqing Attends peace talks with Chiang Kaishek in Chongqing |
| 12th Oct Leaves the peace talks saying "difficulties remained which could be overcome" |
| 1927 | Tse-Tung, Mao Peasant Base |  |
| Mao founds the 1st Communist peasant base |
| 1945 | Tse-Tung, Mao PLA |  |
| Renames the Red Army the People's Liberation Army |
| 1930 | Tse-Tung, Mao Politburo |  |
| Appointed Alternate-Member of the Politburo |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| Appointed Chairman of the Politburo |
| 1930 | Tse-Tung, Mao President |  |
| Appointed President of the Workers & Peasants Revolutionary Committee |
| 1928 | Tse-Tung, Mao Red Army |  |
| Mao organises the 1st Red Army |
| 1927 | Tse-Tung, Mao Reform |  |
| Mao founds the 1st Communist peasant base |
| 1921 | Tse-Tung, Mao Secretary CCP Tse Tung |  |
| Appointed Secretary of the CCP |
| 1931 | Tse-Tung, Mao Secretary Politburo Tse Tung |  |
| Appointed Politbureau Secretary |
| 1915 | Tse-Tung, Mao Secretary Tse Tung |  |
| Appointed Secretary of the Association of Students |
| 1922 | Tse-Tung, Mao Strike |  |
| 13th Sep An Yuan Mao leads An-Yuan miners on strike |
| 1919 | Tse-Tung, Mao Study Society |  |
| Founds the New People's Study Society |
| 1930 | Tse-Tung, Mao Workers Committees Russia |  |
| Appointed President of the Workers & Peasants Revolutionary Committee |
| 1949 | Xiaoping, Deng Central Committee |  |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1978 | Xiaoping, Deng Congress CCP |  |
| The Plenum of the 11th Party Congress ushers in capitalist-style economic reform |
| 1982 | Xiaoping, Deng Congress of CCP |  |
| Feb The Congress reaffirms Deng's policies, including economic liberalization |
| Feb The Congress reaffirms Deng's policies, including economic liberalization |
| The 14th Party Congress supports Deng's economic reforms & "socialist market economy" |
| 1926 | Xiaoping, Deng Guangxi Base |  |
| Establishes a military base in Guangxi Province unnder orders from Zhou En-Lai |
| 1950 | Xiaoping, Deng Invasion of Tibet |  |
| Leads the invasion of Tibet claiming that it is historically a Chinese Province |
| 1977 | Xiaoping, Deng Vice Chairman CCP |  |
| Beijing Appointed Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1981 | Yaobang, Hu Chairman CCP |  |
| 29th June Hua Guofeng is replaced by Hu Yaobang (an ally of Deng Xiaoping) as as Party Chairman of Communist China |
| 1946 | Zemin, Jiang Communist Party |  |
| Appointed Member of the Communist Party |
| 1949 | Zhu, De Exile of Zhu |  |
| Taiwan Drives the National Revolutionary Army under Chiang Kai-Shek into Taiwan |
| 1946 | Zhu, De Surrender |  |
| 1st May Receives the surrender of Japanese units in nth China |