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| 1919 | En-Lai, Chou |  |
| 4th May Tiananmen Sqr Leads a student protest against the Versailles Peace Conference |
| 10th May Nankai Arrives in Nankai University to organize student rebellion against western imperialism |
| 22nd Aug Beijing En-Lai organizes a demonstration in Beijing |
| 1919 | P'u-i |  |
| Tiananmen Sqr Students join in a protest in the Tiananmen Square of Beijing against the European powers' decision to grant German-controlled Shandong to Japan, and thus create a new nationalist Chinese movement ("May Fourth movement") |
| 1919 | Tse-Tung, Mao |  |
| Peking Student riots in Peking |
| 1931 | Kai-Shek, Chiang |  |
| Aug Anti-Chinese riots in the Japanese province of Korea, 100 Chinese are killed |
| 1979 | Xiaoping, Deng |  |
| Beijing Stops the Democracy Wall protests in Beijing |
| 1986 | Ziyang, Zhao |  |
| Beijing Pro-democracy demonstrations by students in Beijing |
| 1989 | Dongfang, Han |  |
| Tiananmen Sqr Leads the Workers Federation Group |
| 1989 | Peng, Li |  |
| Tiananmen Sqr Orders the troops to crush the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square |
| 18th April Tiananmen Sqr Students demand greater democratic freedom |
| 18th April Tiananmen Sqr Students demand the resignations of Deng Xiaoping & Li Peng |
| 19th April Tiananmen Sqr A crowd of 10,000 gathers at Tiananmen Square |
| 27th April Tiananmen Sqr 100,000 defy government troops by marching through the streets & shouting slogans |
| 13th May Tiananmen Sqr About 3,000 students begin a hunger strike |
| 18th May Tiananmen Sqr Meets student leaders to negotiate but asks them to withdraw without preconditions |
| 19th May Tiananmen Sqr Appears on Chinese TV & accuses students of being "counter-revolutionaries" |
| 20th May Tiananmen Sqr The government declares martial law |
| 1989 | Xiaoping, Deng |  |
| Tiananmen Sqr Imposes a curfew on Beijing |
| 18th April Tiananmen Sqr Students demand greater democratic freedom |
| 18th April Tiananmen Sqr Students demand the resignations of Deng Xiaoping & Li Peng |
| 19th April Tiananmen Sqr A crowd of 10,000 gathers at Tiananmen Square |
| 27th April Tiananmen Sqr 100,000 defy government troops by marching through the streets & shouting slogans |
| 20th May Tiananmen Sqr Students begin a hunger strike |
| 4th June Tiananmen Sqr Pro-democracy demonstrations are crushed in Tiananmen Square |
| 4th June Tiananmen Sqr The government imposes martial law |
| 1989 | Yaobang, Hu |  |
| Tiananmen Sqr Students celebrate the late leader's liberalism & demand his posthumous rehabilitation |