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| 1893 | Birth |  |
| 26th Dec Shaoshan Birth of Mao Tse-Tung, Shaoshan in Hunan Province, year of the snake |
| 1909 | Education | |
| Hsiangtan Mao enrols at Hsiangtan School |
| 1911 | Rebellion | |
| Participates in the Republican overthrow of the Manch Dynasty |
| 1913 | Education | |
| Changsha Mao enrols at Changsha School |
| 1915 | Secretary Tse Tung | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Association of Students |
| 1919 | Demonstrations | |
| Peking Student riots in Peking |
| 1919 | Study Society | |
| Founds the New People's Study Society |
| 1920 | League of Socialists Youths | |
| Hunan Mao Tse-Tung founds the League of Socialists Youths |
| 1920 | Library of Culture | |
| Mao Tse-Tung organises a "Library of Culture" |
| 1920 | Marriage | |
| Mao Tse-Tung marries Yang K'ai-hui |
| 1921 | 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 |
| 1921 | Secretary CCP Tse Tung | |
| Appointed Secretary of the CCP |
| 1922 | Alliance | |
| 1st Aug The CCP decides to collaborate with the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Party of China |
| 1922 | Congress of ccp | |
| 1st July Shanghai CCP Congress in Shanghai, Mao is absent |
| 1922 | Strike | |
| 13th Sep An Yuan Mao leads An-Yuan miners on strike |
| 1923 | Alliance | |
| July Mao co-ordinates the co-ordination between the CCP & Kuomintang |
| 1923 | Central Committee | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the CCP |
| 1923 | Congress of KMT | |
| July Mao attends the 1st Congress of the Kuomintang |
| 1923 | Kuomintang, The | |
| Appointed Member of the Executive Committee of the Kuomintang |
| 1925 | Editor | |
| Appointed Chief Editor of the Political Week, official paper of the Kuomintang |
| 1927 | Alliance | |
| Rupture between the Kuomintang & CCP |
| July Rupture between the Kuomintang & CCP |
| 1927 | Arrest | |
| The KMT issue an arrest warrant against Mao |
| 1927 | Autumn Harvest Uprising | |
| A young communist leader, Mao Tse-Tung, organizes the Autumn Harvest Uprising, which fails |
| 1927 | Expulsion Tse Tung | |
| Mao is excluded from the Central Committee |
| 1927 | Peasant Base | |
| Mao founds the 1st communist peasant base |
| 1927 | Rebellion | |
| Hunan Sent by the party leadership to start the Autmun Harvest Revolt in east Hunan |
| 1927 | Reform | |
| Mao founds the 1st communist peasant base |
| 1928 | Central Committee | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee |
| 1928 | Red Army | |
| Mao organises the 1st Red Army |
| 1928 | Siege of Changsha | |
| Changsha Takes part in the attacks at Changsha led by Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1929 | Invasion of Chiangshi | |
| Chiangshi Mao & his troops invade Chiangshi |
| 1929 | Invasion of Fu chien | |
| Fu chien Mao & his troops invade Fu-chien |
| 1930 | Capture of Changsha | |
| Changsha Ordered to capture Changsha the capital of Hunan Province by Li Lisan but fails |
| 1930 | Execution of Yang | |
| Chiang Kai-shek executes Mao's wife |
| 1930 | Politburo | |
| Appointed Alternate-Member of the Politburo |
| 1930 | President | |
| Appointed President of the Workers & Peasants Revolutionary Committee |
| 1930 | Purge | |
| Purges 4,400 men from the Red Army on charges of being anti-Party rebels |
| 1930 | Rebellion | |
| Futian A section of the Red Army rises up against Mao |
| 1930 | Siege of Nanchang | |
| Nanchang Leads a Communist army which nearly captures Nanchang |
| 1930 | Siege of Ruijing | |
| Ruijing Defeats 1st attempt by Chiang Kai-Shek to overrun the Communist military base |
| 1930 | Workers Committees Russia | |
| Appointed President of the Workers & Peasants Revolutionary Committee |
| 1931 | Chairman CCP | |
| Kiangsi Provinc Appointed Chairman of Soviet Republic of China |
| 1931 | Chairman Soviet | |
| Ruijing Appointed Chairman of the Soviet at Ruijing |
| 1931 | Constitution | |
| Kiangsi Helps found the Soviet Republic of China |
| Nov Russian influenced CP members proclaim a Chinese Republic to stop China joining Japan |
| 1931 | Declaration of Republic | |
| Nov Russian influenced CP members proclaim a Chinese Republic to stop China joining Japan |
| 1931 | Government | |
| Claims the government is a national government |
| Helps found a soviet government in accordance with Russian policy |
| 1931 | Guerrilla Warfare | |
| Announces a strategy to "pit 1 against 10" |
| 1931 | Massacre Communists | |
| Kills 3,000 communists after criticism he should act in the interests of the peasants |
| 1931 | Purge | |
| Kills 3,000 communists after criticism he should in the interests of the peasants |
| 1931 | Secretary Politburo Tse Tung | |
| Appointed Politbureau Secretary |
| 1931 | Siege of Changsha | |
| Changsha Leads the Communists out of Changsha towards the end of the year |
| 1931 | Siege of Ruijing | |
| Ruijing Defeats 3rd attempt by Chiang Kai-Shek to overrun the Communist military base |
| Ruijing Defeats a 2nd attempt by Chiang Kai-Shek to overrun the Communist military base |
| 1933 | Politburo | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1934 | Chairman Soviet Ruijing | |
| Ruijing Appointed Head of the Ruijin Soviet |
| 1934 | Congress of Ruijing | |
| Jan Ruijing Supports Russia & its achievements & says the communist army will be victorious |
| 1934 | Long March | |
| Kiangsi 4,000 communist soldiers are killed during the communist withdrawal from Kiangsi |
| The alliance between Soviet backed Kuomintang & the Chinese Communist Party breaks up |
| 16th Oct Shensi Begins a withdrawal after defeats by the Nationalists to the province of Shensi |
| 16th Oct Yennan Mao begins a 12 month long march to establish a new base in northern China at Yennan |
| 1935 | Conference of Zunyi | |
| Zunyi The Zunyi Conference establishes Mao's ascendancy within the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1935 | Government | |
| Bases a new government on peasants rather than the working class |
| Reaches Shensi & establishes a new government at Yenan |
| 1935 | Long March | |
| Leads the Red Army against Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek |
| 30th May River Tatu The Red Army crosses the Tatu River |
| 12th June Moukung The Communist 4th Front Army joins up with Mao, Chu Teh & the 1st Front Army |
| 12th June Great Snow Mnts The Red Army crosses the Great Snow Mountains |
| Aug Moukung The Red Army begins its march across eastern Tibet at Mao's suggestion |
| 18th Sep Kansu Province Defeats nationalist troops in Kansu Province |
| 30th Oct Shensi Mao reaches the nth Shensi Soviet area supervised by Kao Kang |
| 30th Oct Shensi The end of the Long March for the 1st Front Army |
| 1938 | Constitution | |
| Wins supremacy in the Communist Party after overcoming Wang Ming |
| 1941 | Alliance | |
| Pearl Harbour After Pearl Harbor the CP is forced into an alliance with the Russian backed KMT |
| 1945 | Chairman CCP | |
| Appointed Party Central Committee Chairman |
| 1945 | Chairman Military Council Tung | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Military Council |
| 1945 | Declaration of War | |
| 14th Aug With the People's Liberation Army declares war against Chiang Kaishek |
| 1945 | 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" |
| 1945 | PLA | |
| Renames the Red Army the People's Liberation Army |
| 1945 | Politburo | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Politburo |
| 1946 | Alliance | |
| Civil war between Chiang and Mao continues, with Chiang (southern China and northern cities) helped by the USA and Mao (northern countryside) helped by the Soviet Union |
| 1947 | Capture of Changchun | |
| Mar Changchun 20,000 communist soldiers die in the process of capturing Changchun |
| 1947 | Capture of Manchuria | |
| Manchuria Half of Manchuria is captured by the Communists |
| 1948 | Battle of Huai Hai | |
| Nov Huai Hai The Nationalist 7th & 2nd Army Groups are defeated along the Lung-Hai railway |
| 1948 | Capture of Canton | |
| Shanghai Shanghai surrenders to the Communists who then gain control of Canton |
| 1948 | Capture of Chunking | |
| Nov Chungking Chunking surrenders to the Communists |
| 1948 | Capture of Manchuria | |
| Oct Manchuria 300,000 Nationalist troops surrender & the Communists gain power over Manchuria |
| 1948 | Capture of Shanghai | |
| May Shanghai Shanghai surrenders to the Communists |
| 1949 | Alliance | |
| Signs the Sino-Soviet treaty of Friendship & Alliance & Mutual Help |
| 1st July Says the world is divided into imperialism & socialism & China should ally with Russia |
| 1949 | Capture of Changshah | |
| 20th May Changshah The Communists capture Changshah |
| 1949 | Capture of Changteh | |
| 20th May Changteh The Communists capture Changteh |
| 1949 | Capture of Fuchow | |
| 20th May Fuchow The Communists capture Fuchow |
| 1949 | Capture of Nangking | |
| 22nd April Nangking The Communists capture Nanking |
| 1949 | Capture of Peking | |
| 22nd Jan Peking Peking surrenders to the Communists |
| 1949 | Capture of Shanghai | |
| 26th May Shanghai The Communists capture Shanghai & seal Chiang's defeat in the Civil War |
| 1949 | Capture of Sian | |
| 20th May Sian The Communists capture Sian, this enables the PLA to turn westward |
| 1949 | Capture of Yangtze | |
| 20th April River Yangtze The Communists cross the River Yangtze |
| 1949 | Chairman CCP | |
| 21st Sep Peking Appointed Chairman of the People's Republic of China |
| 1949 | Constitution | |
| Chiang and his KMT government flee to Taiwan while Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China (1.2 million have died in three years) |
| 28th Aug Manchuria Announces the establishment of the ManchurianPeople's Government |
| 21st Sep Peking Proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China |
| 1st Oct Peking Proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square |
| 1st Oct Peking Stands at the Forbidden City & proclaims, "The Chinese people have stood up" |
| 1949 | Diplomacy | |
| Recognizes Ho Chi-Minh's Vietminh as the legitimate government of Vietnam |
| 15th June Announces he is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign government |
| 1st Oct Peking Russia gives immediate recognition to the People's Republic of China |
| 16th Dec Moscow Mao Tse-Tung has talks with Stalin in Moscow |
| 1949 | Independence | |
| Recognizes Ho Chi-Minh's Vietminh as the legitimate government of Vietnam |
| 1st Oct Peking Russia gives immediate recognition to the People's Republic of China |
| 1949 | Invasion of Tibet | |
| Communist China invades eastern Tibet |
| 1949 | People's Republic of China | |
| Chiang and his KMT government flee to Taiwan while Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China (1.2 million have died in three years) |
| 1949 | Rule of Tibet | |
| Communist China invades eastern Tibet |
| 1949 | Treaty of Sino Soviet | |
| Signs the Sino-Soviet treaty of Friendship & Alliance & Mutual Help |
| 1950 | Armament | |
| 7th Feb Chinese communists provide modern weapons to the Vietminh |
| 1950 | Bombing of Quemoy | |
| 3rd Sep Quemoy China begins to bomb Quemoy |
| 1950 | Capture of Hainan Island | |
| 23rd April Hainan Island China completes the capture of Hainan Island |
| 1950 | Capture of Lhasa | |
| 7th Oct Lhasa A Chinese Army occupies Lhasa as Mao "reunites" national territory |
| 1950 | Constitution | |
| Holds absolute power from 1950-76 |
| 1950 | Diplomacy | |
| 6th Jan Peking Britain recognizes the Republic of China |
| 7th Feb Chinese communists provide modern weapons to the Vietminh |
| 1950 | Independence | |
| 6th Jan Peking Britain recognizes the Republic of China |
| 1950 | Invasion of Korea | |
| 26th Nov Chinese troops enter the War & force the UN forces Southwards |
| 28th Dec Chinese forces move South across the 38th parallel into South Korea |
| 1950 | Invasion of Taiwan | |
| China promises internal autonomy but troops invade & form a new government |
| 1950 | |
