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| 1926 | Guangxi Base |  |
| Establishes a military base in Guangxi Province unnder orders from Zhou En-Lai |
| 1931 | Capture of Guangxi | |
| Guangxi Xiaoping's military base in Guangxi is captured, he joins Mao's base in Ruijing |
| 1937 | Political Commissar | |
| Appointed Political Commissar during the civil war |
| 1949 | Central Committee | |
| Appointed Member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1950 | Invasion of Tibet | |
| Leads the invasion of Tibet claiming that it is historically a Chinese Province |
| 1954 | Secretary General | |
| Appointed Secretary General of the Communist Party of China |
| 1955 | Political Commissar | |
| Appointed Member of the Politburo |
| 1966 | Arrest | |
| Nanjing Held under house arrest in Nanjing |
| 1966 | Purge | |
| Purged because of his opposition to the "great leap forward" |
| 1973 | Central Committee | |
| Reappointed to the Central Committee |
| 1973 | Vice Prime Minister | |
| Reinstated by Chou En-Lai after the 1966 cultural revolution purges |
| 1974 | Acting Prime Minister | |
| Covers for his patron, Zhou Enlai, after the latter's heart attack |
| 1976 | Death | |
| Death of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping is recalled |
| 1976 | Dismissal | |
| 5th April Peking A demonstration turns into a riot & the "Gang of Four" depose Xiaoping |
| 1977 | Beijing Spring | |
| Beijing Deng Xiaoping engineers the "Beijing Spring" of political liberation |
| 1977 | Chief of Staff | |
| Serves Hua Kuo-Feng as Chief of Staff of Chinese armed forces |
| 1977 | Economy | |
| Promotes a policy of economic liberalization |
| 1977 | Vice Chairman CCP | |
| Beijing Appointed Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1977 | Vice Prime Minister | |
| Beijing Appointed Vice Prime Minister |
| Beijing Reinstated as successor to Chou En-Lei & to avoid the choas of the cultural revolution |
| 1978 | Congress CCP | |
| The Plenum of the 11th Party Congress ushers in capitalist-style economic reform |
| 1978 | Diplomacy | |
| The USA recognizes the People's Republic of China |
| 1978 | Economy | |
| The Plenum of the 11th Party Congress ushers in capitalist-style economic reform |
| 1978 | Party Leader | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Communist Party |
| 1978 | Sino Japanese Treaty | |
| 12th Aug A Treaty of friendship is signed between China & Japan |
| 1979 | Demonstrations | |
| Beijing Stops the Democracy Wall protests in Beijing |
| 1979 | Diplomacy | |
| Informs President Carter personally that China will attack Nth Vietnam |
| Visits the USA & reinforces good relations |
| 1979 | Gang of Four | |
| Month-long trial of the "Gang of Four" (Mao associates) |
| 1979 | Invasion of Vietnam | |
| Feb China invades Vietnam for a 4 week period |
| 1979 | Trial | |
| Month-long trial of the "Gang of Four" (Mao associates) |
| 1981 | Economy | |
| Deng Xiaoping seizes power and launches pseudo-capitalistic economic reforms |
| 1982 | Congress of CCP | |
| Feb The Congress reaffirms Deng's policies, including economic liberalization |
| 1987 | Congress of CCP | |
| 1987 | Dismissal | |
| Dismisses the Party Secretary Hu Yaobang for his criticisms of the Deng regime |
| 1988 | Economy | |
| The Central Committee cuts Xiaoping's reforms which cause inflation & stop-go growth |
| 1989 | Demonstrations | |
| 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 | Retirement | |
| Retires after increasing centralization following the demonstrations in Tiananmen Sqr |
| 1992 | Congress of CCP | |
| The 14th Party Congress supports Deng's economic reforms & "socialist market economy" |
| 1992 | Economy | |
| Deng encourages the return back to economic reforms |
| Tours the "GoldCoast" & gives support to economic reform |
| 1996 | Economy | |
| China, Russia and three (later four) former Soviet republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) form the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) |
| Communist China's gross domestic product grows at an average annual rate of about 10%, the highest in the world, between 1994 and 2000 |
| 1996 | Shanghai Cooperation Organization | |
| China, Russia and three (later four) former Soviet republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) form the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) |
| 1997 | Death | |
| 19th Feb Death of Deng Xiaoping |
