 | Term | Definition |
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1603 |
Tokugawa Shogunate founded |
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1368 |
Ming Dynasty founded |
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1644 |
Ming Dynasty falls, Qing dynasty rises |
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1392 |
Choson Dynasty founded |
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1592 |
Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea begins |
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1598 |
Hideyoshi driven out of Korea |
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1627 |
First Manchurian invasion of Korea, due to Korean support of the Ming, begins |
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1694 |
Yongjo becomes king of Korea |
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1767 |
Prince Sado killed by king Yongjo's orders |
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1776 |
King Yongjo dies, Chongjo becomes king |
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1866 |
The General Sherman incident occurs; French campaign against Korea ensues, France withdraws |
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1871 |
The United States expedition against Korea begins |
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1876 |
The Gwangwa Treaty signed; Japan takes on big-brother role toward Korea; Perry visits Korea |
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1895 |
Queen Min Assassinated |
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1863 |
King Kojong comes to power; the Taewongun is forced out of power |
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1894 |
Tonghak rebellion ensues; Sino-Japanese war begins |
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1904 |
Russo-Japanese war begins |
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1897 |
King Kojong proclaims himself emperor |
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1910 |
King Kojong forced to abdicate: Choson dynasty ends; Korea officially becomes a Japanese colony |
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c. 1918 |
Japan begins Korean "Cultural Policy" |
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1945 |
Japan surrenders; World War II ends; Korea divided; Japan occupied |
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1931 |
Japan begins invasion of Manchuria; ends cultural policy in Korea; Koreans are eventually forced to change their names |
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1919 |
Korean provisional government founded |
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1925 |
Korean Communist Party founded in a secret meeting in Seoul |
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1950 |
Korean War begins |
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1953 |
Korean War concludes in an armistice |
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1954 |
Kim Il Sung begins build-up of North Korean industry: North Korean economy booms |
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1960 |
Syngman Rhee forced to step down as president of South Korea; the Great Leap Forward ends; Liu Shaoqi takes power |
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1961 |
Park Chung Hee takes over South Korea, begins building up industry |
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1979 |
Park Chung Hee assassinated; Chun Doo Hwan seizes control of Korea |
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1980 |
Gwangju massacre occurs; Chun Doo Hwan visits Ronald Reagan |
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1973 |
Park Chung Hee kidnaps and tries to murder Kim Dae Jung; fails |
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1987 |
Massive protests in South Korea force Chun Doo Hwan to keep his promise and step down |
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1994 |
Kim Il Sung dies |
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1998 |
Kim Dae Jung becomes president of South Korea, begins Sunshine policy |
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1997 |
Asian financial crisis begins in Thailand; Hong Kong transfers back to China |
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1999 |
Asia begins to recover from the financial crisis |
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1661 |
Kangxi emperor comes to power |
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1722 |
Yongzheng emperor comes to power, enacts fiscal reforms |
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1735 |
Qianlong emperor comes to power |
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1799 |
Qianglong emperor steps down from power |
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1793 |
George Macartney comes to China; accomplishes nothing |
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1839 |
Opium War begins |
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1856 |
Second Opium War begins |
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1850 |
Taiping rebellion begins |
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1864 |
Taiping rebellion ends |
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1899 |
Boxer rebellion begins |
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1901 |
Foreign powers enter China; end Boxer rebellion |
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1911 |
Qing Dynasty falls, Yuan Shikai becomes president of China |
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1858 |
Treaty of Tianjin signed, giving foreigners much power in China |
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1916 |
Shikai proclaims himself emperor, falls from power; the Warlord Period begins |
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1921 |
Communist Part of China founded |
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1926 |
Chiang Kai Shek begins reunification of China; defeats many warlords |
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1927 |
The KMT purges communists from their ranks; bloodshed ensues in Shanghai |
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1937 |
Nanjing Massacre occurs |
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1949 |
Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China; the KMT flees to Taiwan |
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1934 |
The Long March begins |
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1936 |
The Long March ends; Mao Zedong takes control of the CCP |
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1956 |
The Hundred Flowers Campaign begins |
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1951 |
The Three/Five Anti Campaign begins with the goal of clearing corruption out of the PRC |
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1957 |
Chinese Anti-rightest campaign begins |
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1958 |
The Great Leap Forward Begins |
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1966 |
The Cultural Revolution begins |
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1971 |
Lin Biao dies in plane crash over Mongolia |
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1976 |
Mao and Zhou Enlai die; Hua Goufeng takes power; the Gang of Four arrested; the Cultural Revolution ends |
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1977 |
Hua ousted; Deng Xiaoping becomes Paramount leader of the PRC; discontinues Maoist policies |
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1982 |
Chinese constitution amended; the office of president created in order to preclude future personality cults |
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1989 |
Tiananmen Square Massacre |
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1972 |
Nixon visits China; Sino-American relations begin to thaw |
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1993 |
Jiang Zemin becomes paramount leader of the PRC |
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2002 |
Jiang Zemin steps down; Hu Jintao becomes paramount leader of the PRC |
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1868 |
Tokugawa shogunate falls; Meiji restoration begins |
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1854 |
Commodore Perry sails into Edo bay; opens Japan |
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1941 |
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; begins war with United States |
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1947 |
New, U.S. created Japanese constitution ratified |
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1955 |
The Japanese Liberal Democratic Party founded |
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