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| 1964 | Tse-Tung, Mao |  |
| Mao sets up a Cultural Revolution team headed by Peng Zhen to purge culture |
| 1964 | Zhen, Peng | |
| Mao sets up a Cultural Revolution team headed by Peng Zhen to purge culture |
| 12th Feb A report submitted to the party seeks the "annihilation of the bourgeois" |
| 1966 | Biao, Lin | |
| Becomes one of the Wang-Guan-Lin trio of extremists supporting the Cultural Revolution |
| 1st Oct Makes a speech condemning the "all the od culture & habits" |
| 1966 | Ching, Chiang | |
| Shanghai Plays a leading role in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the "Gang-of-Four" |
| 1966 | Chingling, Soong | |
| Red Guards break ino the home of Sun Yatsen's widow, Zho stops them beheading her |
| 1966 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| 27th Sep Peking Advises the State Council that the Party must keep control & not pass to the mob |
| Nov Peking Presides over a rally of 20,000 in honour of Sun Yatsen's birthday |
| 1966 | Quing, Jiang | |
| Becomes one of the Wang-Guan-Lin trio of extremists supporting the Cultural Revolution |
| 1966 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Targeted as a "capitalist roader" |
| 1966 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Calls for the removal of western influence |
| Factional rivalry results in overthrow of the Communist Party hierarchy |
| Leads 1 million Red Guards who assemble in Peking with the slogan "to rebel is right" |
| Political leaders are paraded with dunce caps |
| Sets up a Central Cultural Revolutionary Committee |
| 16th May Mao abolishes the Cultural Revolution Team & sets up a new one |
| 18th Aug Tiananmen Sqr Addresses a crowd of 1 million at Tiananmen Square |
| 1966 | Yaobang, Hu | |
| Accused of being a capitalist roader |
| 1967 | Shaoqi, Liu | |
| Shaoqi's books on Marxist theory are burned in Tienanmen Square |
| 1968 | En-Lai, Chou | |
| Announces "the great victory of the proletarian Cultural Revolution" is completed |
| 26th Feb Calls for a return to order & discipline |
| 1968 | Tun, Thakin Than |  |
| Attempts, unsuccessfully, to impose a Maoist "cultural revolution" on his followers |
| 1969 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Puts an end to the cultural revolution |
| 1971 | Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| 1st Oct The annual celebration of the revolution is cancelled because of the death of Lin Biao |
