ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : PRC since 1989 </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="China since 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 1971-1989 </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlchn19711989.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xprchina.html"> <img src = "../banners/banprchina.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 16th 2004, last revised on March 30th 2007 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; 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"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; 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> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : China since 1989 </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev 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"> 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> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Stock markets opened in Shenzhen, <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"> 1992 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC, Republic of Korea 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"> 1994 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> China abolished fixed exchange rates for her currency </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1995-1996 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Third Taiwan Straits Crisis </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1997 Feb. 19 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of Deng Xiaoping </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1997 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Britain transferred Hong Kong to Chinese rule; <A HREF = "tlhongkong.html">Hong Kong</A> declared Special Administrative Region </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1999 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Portugal transferred Macau to Chinese rule; <A HREF = "tlmacau.html">Macau</A> declared Special Administrative Region </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1999 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Chinese embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed by NATO </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2001 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> U.S. spy plane forced to land on <A HREF = "tlhainan.html">Hainan</A> island, PRC </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2001 July 13 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> IOC selected Bejing to host Summer Olympic Games in 2008 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2001 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC joined World Trade Organization </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> SARS crisis </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of Three Gorges Dam completed; artificial lake began to fill up </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> PRC among the nations who opposed the U.S. & Coalition of the Willing invasion of Iraq </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 Oct. 15 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> China sent first Taikonaut into space </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 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 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 One Country, Two Systems from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems"><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> Article Third Taiwan Straits Crisis, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Timeline China, from <A HREF = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1288392.stm"><B>BBC News</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, People's Republic of, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1990-1991 pp.354-366, 1991-1992 pp.354-366, 1992-1993 pp.355-366, 1993-1994 pp.355-366, 1994-1995 pp.346-357, 1995-1996 pp.334-345, 1996-1997 pp.345-356, 1997-1998 pp.348-359, 1998-1999 pp.378-394, 2000 pp.441-454, 2001 pp.428-441, 2002 pp.445-459, 2003 pp.444-457, 2004 pp.444-458, 2005 pp.440-456, 2006 pp.434-450 [G] <BR> Entry : Background Notes : China pp.87-102, Travel Warnings - China, pp.445-449 in : Countries of the World and their Leaders Yearbook, 2000, Supplement [G] <BR> Entry : People's Republic of China, Cabinet, pp.25-27; Background Notes, pp.410-424, in : Countries of the World and their Leaders Yearbook, 2003 [G] <BR> Entry : China P.R., Mainland, pp.354-357 in : IMF, International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2001 [G] <BR> Article : China, People's Republic of, in : Americana Annual 1992 pp.188-191, 1993 pp.181-184, 1994 pp.184-187, 1998 pp.188-189, 2006 pp.105-107 [G] <BR> Article : China, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1991 pp.419-421, 574-575, 1992 pp.392-395, 574-575, 1993 pp.394-397, 584-585, 1994 pp.394-397, 584-585, 1995 pp.391-393, 584-585, 1996 pp.388-391, 584-585, 1997 pp.407-409, 582-583, 2002 pp.406-408, 579-580 [G] <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; 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