Mao ZedongAugust 1966
Mao calls on students and Red Guards to rebel against party and cultural authorities
China · Government / Chinese Communist Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Mao calls on students and Red Guards to rebel against party and cultural authorities
Tao Zhu rises briefly before being attacked by Cultural Revolution radicals
Jiang Qing promotes radical cultural politics and becomes a central Cultural Revolution figure
Liu Shaoqi is targeted as a capitalist roader during the Cultural Revolution
Hu Yaobang is attacked and sidelined during the Cultural Revolution as a suspected capitalist roader
Zhou Enlai announces that the first stage of the Cultural Revolution has achieved victory
Zhou Enlai declares political victory while trying to restore administrative order
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