Title: Introduction to Chinese Cultural History / Years

Front: When was the Nanjing Decade?
Back: 1927–1937

Front: When did Nixon visit China?
Back: 1972

Front: When did Zhou Enlai die?
Back: 1976 January 8^th

Front: When did Mao die?
Back: 1976 September 9^th

Front: When was the Yuanmingyuan looted and destroyed?
Back: During Second Opium War in 1860, or more prceisely:
First loooting and acts of destruction by French and British troops:
1860 October 6^th
Burning, ordered by Lord Elgin:
1860 October 18^th

Front: In which year was the Hundred Days Reform?
Back: 1898

Front: When did Cixi declare war against the foreign powers?
Back: 1900 June 21^st

Front: After the boxer rebellion, in which year was a failed attempt at revolution under Sun Yat-sen?
Back: 1890

Front: When did Cixi die?
Back: 1908, shortly after death of Guangxu Emperor.

Front: When did the Guangxu emperor die?
Back: 1908, shortly before the death of Cixi.

Front: In which year was the Wuchang Uprising?
Back: 1911 October 9^th
I could not find any other sources for this, but the german summary of Wasserstrom at one point says the Wuchang "revolution" was in 1912: "Nach der Wuchang-Revolution von 1912 [...]" (S.12), then half a paragraph later "in der Revolution von 1911". In the original Wasserstrom, I could find no reference to a Wuchang "revolution" in 1912, only the uprising in 1911, and other sources consistently give the year 1911. Don't quote me on this but I think this is an oversight in the summary.

Front: When was Sun Yat-sen elected president?
Back: End of 1911.

Front: When did the Qīng formally abdicate?
Back: 1912 February 12^th

Front: When did Yuan Shikai become president?
Back: 1912 (until 1916)

Front: When did Yuan Shikai stop being president?
Back: 1916, by dying.

Front: When did Japan issue the 21 demands?
Back: 1915 January

Front: When is national humiliation day?
Back: 1915 May 25^th

Front: Which years in the Warlord Era saw great famines?
Back: - 1920–1921
- 1928–1930

Front: When did Mao Zedong observe a peasant uprising during the Nanjing Decade?
Back: 1927

Front: When was Mao Zedong born?
Back: 1893

Front: When did Mao first leave Hunan for Beijing?
Back: 1918

Front: When was the Shanghai Massacre against the Communists?
Back: 1927

Front: Date of a detonation that Japan understood as an act of aggression?
Back: The date of the Mukden incident is 1931 September 18^th.

Front: When was the Marco Polo Bridge incident?
Back: 1937 July 7^th

Front: When did Japan retaliate for the lynching of a japanese monk?
Back: 1931 January, Shanghai is bombarded for about a month.

Front: When did Chiang go to Xi'an to fight the communists?
Back: 1936

Front: When did the full-scale invasion of China start?
Back: 1937 July

Front: When are the War Years, according to Rana Mitter?
Back: 1937–1949

Front: In what year did the Japanese capture Beiping?
Back: Beiping was captured 1937.

Front: When was the high point of Chongqing bombardement by the Japanese?
Back: 1939 May 3^rd–1939 May 4^th

Front: When did the USA enter the war in Asia?
Back: Declaration of war against Japan was 1941 December 8^th.

Front: When was the PRC founded?
Back: 1949

Front: When was the Operation Ichi-gō?
Back: 1944

Front: When was the new marriage law of the PRC introduced?
Back: 1950

Front: When did the Great Leap Forward start?
Back: 1958 January

Front: When was the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed?
Back: 1950

Front: When did Stalin die?
Back: 1953

Front: For which years was the first five-year-plan?
Back: 1953–1957

Front: When did Mao decide to establish 200–300 household cooperatives?
Back: 1955 July

Front: When was the Hundred Flowers Movement?
Back: 1956 April

Front: When was the Anti-Rightist Campaign?
Back: 1957–1958

Front: When was the Lushan Conference?
Back: 1959 July–August

Front: After the Great Leap Forward, what were Mao's year of political inactivity?
Back: 1961–1964

Front: When was the little red book published?
Back: 1964

Front: When was the Cultural Revolution?
Back: 1964–1976, the radical phase starts 1966

Front: When was the prelude phase of the cultural revolution?
Back: 1964–1966

Front: When was the radical phase of the cultural revolution?
Back: 1966–1968

Front: When was the late-Maoist phase of the cultural revolution?
Back: 1968–1976

Front: In which year was the bloody August?
Back: 1966

Front: When did Lin Biao die?
Back: 1971 September 13^th

Front: When was the tenth party congress, were Deng Xiapoing among others, was rehabilitated?
Back: 1973

Front: When did Liu Shaoqi die?
Back: 1969

Front: When did France recognize the PRC?
Back: 1964

Front: When was the border conflict with the UdSSR?
Back: 1969

Front: When did China gain nuclear capabilities?
Back: 1964

Front: When did Henry Kissinger visit China?
Back: 1971 July

Front: When did US troops leave Taiwan?
Back: 1979

Front: When did China capture the Xisha islands from South Vietnam?
Back: 1974

Front: When were the Tian'anmen protests?
Back: 1989

Front: When was the succession of Mao resolved?
Back: 1979 December, by then most supported Deng.

Front: When did Democracy Wall appear on the scene?
Back: 1978

Front: When did Deng make his Four Cardinal Principles known?
Back: 1979

Front: When was Hu Yaobang kicked from his position?
Back: 1987

Front: When was the Joint-Venture-Law?
Back: 1979

Front: When were the first four Special Economic Zones designated?
Back: 1980

Front: When was the campaign against spiritual pollution?
Back: 1987

Front: When was Yellow Earth by Chen Kaige published?
Back: 1984

Front: When was Red Sorghum published?
Back: 1987

Front: When were grain subsidies stopped?
Back: 1984

Front: When did the PRC replace Taiwan in the UN?
Back: 1971

Front: When did US-China relations normalize?
Back: 1979

Front: When did Deng go on his tour of the south?
Back: 1992

Front: When was the Hong Kong handover ceremony?
Back: 1997

Front: When was Macao handed back to China?
Back: 1999

Front: Since when is China part of the WTO?
Back: 2001

Front: When did Hu Yaobang die?
Back: 1989

Front: When was the Fourth World Conference on Women?
Back: 1995

Front: When were the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing?
Back: 2008

Front: When was the World's Fair in Shanghai?
Back: 2010

Front: When did Jiang Zemin step down?
Back: 2000

Front: When did Liu Xiaobo get the nobel peace prize?
Back: 2010

Front: When were the Sichuan earthquakes documented by Ai Weiwei?
Back: 2008

Front: When did Xi Jinping take over?
Back: 2012

Front: Whenm did Liu Xiaobo die?
Back: 2017

Front: When was the one child policy introduced?
Back: 1979

Front: When was the umbrella movement?
Back: 2014