Timeline of Chinese history
The Chronology of China provides a quick overview of the long and varied history of China, starting with the ancient civilizations, through the long series of imperial dynasties until the time of the republics and important data of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Periodization of Chinese history
Collection of articles on the different periods of Chinese history.
- Hemudu culture (ca. 7000-4000 BC)
- Yangshao culture (ca. 5000-2000 BC) Banpo village
- Western Zhou Dynasty (西周) Xizhou: 1100-770 BC
- Eastern Zhou Dynasty (东周), Tung Chau: 770-256 BC Time of the Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋), Chunqiu: 770-476 BC
- Time of the Warring States (战国) Zhanguo: 476-221-bc.html">221 BC
- Qin Dynasty (秦): 221-207 BC Kaiser Shǐhuángdì (始皇): 221-210 BC
- Emperor Qin Er Shi (秦二世): 209-207 BC
- Kaiser Ziying: 207-206 BC
- Han Dynasty (汉): 206 BC - 220 AD Western Han Dynasty (前 汉), Qian Han (also known as Western Han (西汉), Xi - Han called ): 200 BC - 9 AD Emperor Han Gaozu (汉 高祖): 206-195 BC
- Emperor Han Wudi (汉 武帝): 140-87 BC
- The time of the Three Kingdoms (三国), Sanguo: 220-280 Wei Dynasty (魏): 220-265 Emperor Cao Pi: 220-226
- Emperor Sun Quan: 222-252
- Jin Dynasty: 265-420 Western Jin Dynasty (西晋), Xi - Jin: 265-316
- Eastern Jin Dynasty (东晋), Dong- Jin: 317-420
- The Sixteen Kingdoms Han Zhao (also called the Former Zhao, 304-329 )
- Cheng- Han (also called the Former Shu, 304-347 )
- Later Zhao ( 319-350 )
- Earlier Liang ( 324-376 )
- Former Yan ( 337-370 )
- Former Qin ( 350-394 )
- Later Qin ( 384-417 )
- Later Yan ( 384-409 )
- Western Qin ( 385-431 )
- Later Liang ( 386-403 )
- Southern Liang ( 397-414 )
- Southern Yan ( 398-410 )
- Western Liang ( 400-420 )
- Northern Liang ( 401-439 )
- Xia ( 407-431 )
- Northern Yan ( 409-433 )
- Southern and Northern dynasties (南北朝) Nanbei - Chao: 420-589 Southern dynasties (南朝) Nanchao: Earlier Song Dynasty (刘宋/刘宋) Liu - Song: 420-479
- Qi Dynasty (齐): 479-502
- Liang (梁): 502-557 Emperor Liang Wu Di 502-549
- Northern Wei, In - Wei: 386-534
- Eastern Wei, Dong- Wei: 534-550
- Western Wei, Xi - Wei: 535-557
- Northern Qi, Qi - In: 550-577
- Northern Zhou, In - Zhou: 557-581
- Tang Dynasty (唐): 618-907 Emperor Taizong: 626-649
- Empress Wu Zetian and its Wuzhou Dynasty ( 690-705 )
- Emperor Xuanzong: 712-756
- The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (五代 十 国): ( 907-960 ) The Five Dynasties (五代) Wudai: 907-960 Late Liang Dynasty, Hou - Liang: 907-936
- Later Tang, Hou - Tang: 923-936
- Later Jin, Hou - Jin: 936-947
- Later Han, Hou - Han: 947-950
- Later Zhou, Hou - Zhou: 951-960
- Wuyue ( 904-978 )
- Ming ( 909-945 ) Yin ( 943-945 )
- Liao Dynasty: 916-1125 ( Qidan Dynasty in northern China )
- Song Dynasty (宋): 960-1279 Northern Song, In - Song: 960-1127 Emperor Taizu: 960-976
- Emperor Huizong: 1101-1125
- Yuan Dynasty (元): 1261-1368 ( Mongol dynasty ) Emperor Kublai Khan ( Shizu ): 1279-1294
- Period Zhizheng ( Toghan Timur ): 1341-1368
- Ming Dynasty (明): 1368-1644 Emperor Hongwu 1368-1398 first Ming emperor
- Emperor Zhu Di ( Yongle ) 1402-1424 Admiral Zheng He 1371-1435
- Qing Dynasty (清): 1644-1911 ( manjurische Dynasty) Shunzhi: 1644-1662 first Manchu emperors in China and founder of the Qing Dynasty
- Kangxi: 1662-1722
- Yongzheng: 1723-1735
- Qianlong: 1735-1796 peak of the Qing Dynasty, the longest reign of all Chinese emperors
- Jiaqing: 1796-1820
- Daoguang: 1820-1850
- Republic of China (中华民国/中华民国, Zhōnghuá Mínguó ): since 1912 ( from 1949 only to Taiwan)
- People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国/中华人民共和国, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó ): since 1949
Events
Below we present a partial list of significant historical events in China, for its own products.
- Establishment of the Empire by Qin Shi Huang of China, 221 BC
- Emperor Qin Shi Huang can connect and extend the walls of former constituent states. This creates the first Great Wall of Wei Valley to the Yellow Sea, 214 BC
- Genghis Khan falls in 1211 in China
- Marco Polo as an observing and rapporteur traveler in China, 1275-1292
- Fall of the Ming Dynasty, 1644
- First Opium War, 1839-1842
- Second Opium War, 1856-1860
- Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864
- Boxer Rebellion, 1900
- Fall of the Qing Dynasty, 1911
- Founding of the People 's Republic of China by Mao Zedong, October 1, 1949
- Massacre at Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989
- The Olympic Summer Games in Beijing, 2008
Mnemonic for the dynasties
There are Chinese Wish verses in which the Urkaiser, all dynasties and the Republic of China are listed in chronological order: