ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : PRC 1971-1989 </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="China 1971-1989"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Timeline <BR> China 1958-1971 </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlchn19581971.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = 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= "2"> IOC admitted PRC, expelled RoC (<A HREF = "tltaiwan.html">Taiwan</A>) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1971 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Lin Biao died of a plane crash </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1971 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> UN allocated Chinese seat in Security Council to PRC, ousted RoC </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1972 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC, Japan established diplomatic relations </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1972 Sept. </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> U.S. president Richard Nixon visited China </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1973 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Deng Xiaoping appointed Deputy Premier </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1974 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> China launched first recoverable capsule into space </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1976 Jan. 8 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Zhou Enlai </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1976 Sept. 9 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Mao Zedong </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1976 Oct. 6 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Negotiations over return of Dalai Lama to <A HREF = "tltibet.html">Tibet</A>, unsuccessful </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1977-1983 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Karakoram Highway, connecting Pakistan, <A HREF = "tlxinjiang.html">Xinjiang</A>, opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1978 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC declared freedom of religion </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1978 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 'Gang of Four' arrested, blamed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1979 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC, U.S. established diplomatic relations </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1979-1980 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Sino-Vietnamese border war </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1980 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC set up the first Special Economic Zones (Shenzhen etc.) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1980-1981 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hua Guofeng ousted from premiership, party chairmanship </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1981 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 'Gang of Four' tried, sentenced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1982 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> German carmaker Volkswagen established factory in <A HREF = "tlshanghai.html">Shanghai</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1984 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Negotiations over future of <A HREF = "tlhongkong.html">Hong Kong</A> begun; Deng Xiaoping suggested One Country, Two Systems formula </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1984 Dec. 19 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of <A HREF = "tlhongkong.html">Hong Kong</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1985 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Sino-Portuguese negotiations over transfer of <A HREF = "tlmacau.html">Macau</A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 Apr. 15 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Hua Guofeng </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 June 3 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Tienanmen Massacre </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 Dec. 11 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Nobel Peace prize awarded to Dalai Lama </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> <A HREF = "http://www.chinese-history.net/index1.htm"><B>Chinese History</B></A> <BR> Timelines and Reigns, from <A HREF = "http://tse.dyndns.org/~sktse/rnonking.htm"><B>Chinese Eyes</B></A> <BR> World Statesmen : <A HREF = "http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China.html"><B>China</B></A>, by Ben Cahoon <BR> Article Mao Zedong, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article People's Liberation Army, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> People's Republic of China, from <A HREF = "http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/his/prc.php"><B>Congressional - Executive Commission on China : Virtual Academy</B></A> (chapter from LoC Country Study China) <BR> Concise Political History of China, posted by <A HREF = "http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinhist.html"><B> Chinese Culture</B></A> (CUNY); based on Comptons <BR> Wars of China, from <A HREF = "http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/cat/china/findex.htm"><B>ACED</B></A> <BR> Article Deng Xiaoping, from <A HREF = "http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0815155.html"><B>Columbia Encyclopedia</B></A>; from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Cultural Revolution, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Gang of Four, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28China%29"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Foreign Relations of the PRC, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China"><B> Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Zhou Enlai, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Enlai"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article One Country, Two Systems from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Sino-British Joint Declaration, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Special Economic Zone, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Chinese Manned Space Program, from <A HREF = "http://www.astronautix.com/articles/chidoors.htm"><B> Encyclopedia Astronautica</B></A> <BR> CASCON Case CHV : China-Vietnam 1979-, by <A HREF = "http://web.mit.edu/cascon/cases/case_chv.html"><B>L.P. Bloomfield, L. Moulton</B></A> <BR> CASCON Case SPI : Spratly Islands, 1974-, by <A HREF = "http://web.mit.edu/cascon/cases/case_spi.html"><B>L.P. Bloomfield, L. Moulton</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> REFERENCE </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Article : China, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1972 pp.174-179, 1973 pp.171-174, 1974 pp.179-186, 1975 pp.164-168, 1976 pp.190-194, 1977 pp.193-196, 1978 pp.248-252, 1979 pp.248-254, 1980 pp.244-249, 1981 pp.243-248, 1982 pp.240-245, 1983 pp.238-242, 1984 pp.233-238, 1985 pp.498-501, 657-658, 1986 pp.493-497, 653-654, 1987 pp.463-466, 622-623, 1988 pp.421-424, 574-575, 1989 pp.421-423, 574-575, 1990 pp.438-441, 580-590 [G] <BR> Article : China, People's Republic of, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1975-1976 pp.816-828, 1976-1977 pp.827-838, 1978-1979 pp.334-345, 1979-1980 pp.333-345, 1980-1981 pp.336-347, 1981-1982 pp.341-353, 1983-1984 pp.346-357, 1984-1985 pp.344-355, 1985-1986 pp.346-357, 1986-1987 pp.350-362, 1987-1988 pp.350-362, 1988-1989 pp.352-365, 1989-1990 pp.355-367 [G] <BR> Article : China, in : The World in Figures 1st ed. 1976 pp.166-167, 2nd ed. 1978 pp.166-167, 4th ed. 1984 pp.165-166 [G] <BR> Article : Spotlight on China, in : Americana Annual 1972 pp.14-34 (on events of 1971) [G] <BR> Article : China, in : Americana Annual 1973 pp.184-189, 1974 pp.172-176, 1976 pp.168-173 [G] <BR> Article : China, People's Republic of, in : Americana Annual 1988 pp.184-188, 1989 pp.183-187, 1990 pp.179-183 [G] <BR> Article : China, in : Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1976 pp.257-279 (Stephen Uhally), 1980 pp.231-247 (S.U.) 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