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May 4th Movement

China · House / House of Ching. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1919

Pu-i4 May 1919

Beijing · House / House of Ching

Students join in a protest in the Tiananmen Square of Beijing against the European powers decision to grant German-controlled Shandong to Japan, and thus create a new nationalist Chinese movement ("May 4th movement"). Over 3000 students of Peking University and other schools gather together in front of Tiananmen and hold a demonstration. Demonstrations against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

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Pu-i

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