Mao Zedong's Leadership and Early PRC Political Consolidation (1949–1976)

1. CPPCC adopts the Common Program

   Sep 29, 1949Labels: CPPCC, Common Program

   • Common Program
   • CPPCC

2. PRC formally proclaimed in Beijing

   Oct 1, 1949Labels: Mao Zedong, People's Republic

   • HISTORY
   • PRC History

3. Counterrevolution suppression campaign begins

   Mar 1, 1950Labels: Campaign to

   • Counterrevolution

4. Marriage Law promulgated nationwide

   May 1, 1950Labels: Marriage Law

   • Marriage Law

5. Land Reform Law issued and implemented

   Jun 30, 1950Labels: Land Reform

   • China org cn
   • Land Reform

6. Chinese forces enter the Korean War

   Oct 19, 1950Labels: Chinese People's, Korean War

   • PVA

7. Three-Anti and Five-Anti campaigns intensified

   Jan 1, 1952Labels: Three-Anti Campaign, Five-Anti Campaign

   • Three Five Anti

8. First Five-Year Plan begins industrial push

   Jan 1, 1953Labels: First Five-Year

   • 1st FYP
   • China org cn

9. PRC adopts its first formal constitution

   Sep 20, 1954Labels: 1954 Constitution, National People's

   • 1954 Constitution
   • Constitution

10. Mao delivers 'On the Ten Major Relationships'

    Apr 25, 1956Labels: Mao Zedong

    • Ten Relationships
    • China Daily

11. Hundred Flowers Campaign opens controlled criticism

    May 1, 1956Labels: Hundred Flowers

    • Britannica
    • Hundred Flowers

12. Anti-Rightist Campaign begins repression of critics

    Jun 1, 1957Labels: Anti-Rightist Campaign

    • Anti Rightist
    • Britannica

13. Great Leap Forward launched via mass mobilization

    Jan 1, 1958Labels: Great Leap

    • Britannica
    • Great Leap

14. Lushan Conference purges Peng Dehuai

    Jul 2, 1959Labels: Lushan Conference, Peng Dehuai

    • Lushan

15. Seven Thousand Cadres Conference reassesses Great Leap

    Jan 11, 1962Labels: Seven Thousand

    • 7000 Cadres
    • Oxford Academic

16. Socialist Education Movement begins in rural areas

    Jan 1, 1963Labels: Socialist Education

    • Socialist Edu

17. May 16 Notification initiates Cultural Revolution

    May 16, 1966Labels: May 16, Cultural Revolution

    • 16 May
    • Britannica

18. Early Red Guard movement emerges in Beijing

    May 25, 1966Labels: Red Guards, Beijing

    • Red Guards
    • Britannica

19. Lin Biao dies in disputed plane crash

    Sep 13, 1971Labels: Lin Biao

    • Lin Biao

20. Shanghai Communiqué issued during Nixon visit

    Feb 27, 1972Labels: Shanghai Communiqu, US-China relations

    • Shanghai Com
    • FRUS

21. Mao Zedong dies in Beijing

    Sep 9, 1976Labels: Mao Zedong

    • HISTORY
    • Mao Death

22. Gang of Four arrested, Cultural Revolution collapses

    Oct 6, 1976Labels: Gang of

    • Gang of Four
    • Britannica