Timeline of Chinese history
Year Date Event
1901 7 September Boxer BOx Rebellion : The Qing dynasty and Eight-Nation Alliance signed the Boxer Protocol , under which the Alliance was granted war reparations and the right to station troops in the capital Beijing
1908 14 November The Guangxu Emperor died of arsenic poisoning
1908 2 December The Guangxu Emperor 's young nephew Puyi became emperor of the Qing dynasty
1911 27 April Second Guangzhou uprising
1911 10 October Wuchang uprising : New Army soldiers staged a mutiny in Wuchang District and occupied the residence of the Viceroy of Huguang
1911 29 December 1911 Republic of China provisional presidential election : Sun Yat-sen was elected president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China , with a majority of sixteen of the seventeen provincial representatives of the Tongmenghui in Nanjing
1912 1 January Xinhai Revolution : Sun Yat-sen was inaugurated president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China
1912 12 February Xinhai Revolution : Puyi 's regent , the empress dowager Empress Dowager Longyu , signed an edict under which Puyi would retain his imperial title but all power would pass to the Provisional Government of the Republic of China
1912 10 March Sun Yat-sen resigned in favor of Yuan Shikai
1912 25 August The Tongmenghui and several smaller revolutionary parties merged to form the Kuomintang ( KMT )
1912 1912 Republic of China National Assembly election : An election to the National Assembly under the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China began which would produce pluralities for the KMT in the House and Senate
1913 20 March Assassination of Song Jiaoren : Song Jiaoren , founder of the KMT was assassinated , most likely by then-president Yuan Shikai
1915 8 January Japan issued the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China , including demands for territory in Shandong , Manchuria and Inner Mongolia , rights of extraterritoriality for its citizens in China , and influence in China 's internal affairs
1915 15 September Chen Duxiu founded the magazine New Youth
1915 12 December Yuan declared himself the Hongxian Emperor of the Empire of China
1915 The progressive , anti- Confucian New Culture Movement was founded
1915 25 December National Protection War : The republican generals Cai E and Tang Jiyao declared the independence of Yunnan from the Empire of China
1916 16 June Yuan died
1919 4 May May Fourth Movement : A student protest against the Treaty of Versailles took place at Tiananmen
1919 28 June The Treaty of Versailles , among whose provisions was the transfer of German territories in Shandong to Japan , was signed
20th century
This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties in Chinese history and years in China. Dates prior to 841 , the beginning of the Gonghe Regency, are provisional and subject to dispute.