1919
Demonstrations
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")
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Tiananmen Sqr in China. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
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")
Leads a student protest against the Versailles Peace Conference
Mao wears a Red Guard armband, giving symbolic endorsement to student rebels
Lin Biao appears with Mao at the first great Red Guard rally in Tiananmen Square
Mao receives and addresses a vast Red Guard rally in Tiananmen Square
Liu Shaoqi's works are denounced and burned as he is attacked as China's Khrushchev
Forbidden to lay wreaths on the Martyrs Memorial in honour of Chou, causes disorder
Crowds mourning Zhou Enlai clash with authorities during the Tiananmen Incident
Deng Xiaoping is blamed by radicals after public mourning for Zhou Enlai becomes political protest
Arrested during the Tiananmen Sqr demonstrations
Imposes a curfew on Beijing
Leads the Workers Federation Group
Students celebrate the late leaders liberalism & demand his posthumous rehabilitation
Orders the troops to crush the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square
Does not suppress demonstrations in Shanghai but supports martial law in Beijing
Students demand the resignations of Deng Xiaoping & Li Peng. Students demand greater democratic freedom
Students demand the resignations of Deng Xiaoping & Li Peng. Students demand greater democratic freedom
A crowd of 10,000 gathers at Tiananmen Square
A crowd of 10,000 gathers at Tiananmen Square
100,000 defy Government troops by marching through the streets & shouting slogans
100,000 defy Government troops by marching through the streets & shouting slogans
About 3,000 students begin a hunger strike
Meets student leaders to negotiate but asks them to withdraw without preconditions
Appears on Chinese TV & accuses students of being "counter-revolutionaries"
Students begin a hunger strike
The Government declares martial law
The Government imposes martial law. Pro-democracy demonstrations are crushed in Tiananmen Square
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