Timeline of Guangzhou

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The following is a timeline of the history of the Chinese city of Guangzhou, also formerly known as Panyu,[citation needed] Canton, and Kwang-chow.[1][2]

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Nanyue[]

History of China
History of China
ANCIENT
Neolithic c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC
Xia c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC
Shang c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC
Zhou c. 1046 – 256 BC
 Western Zhou
 Eastern Zhou
   Spring and Autumn
   Warring States
IMPERIAL
Qin 221–207 BC
Han 202 BC – 220 AD
  Western Han
  Xin
  Eastern Han
Three Kingdoms 220–280
  Wei, Shu and Wu
Jin 266–420
  Western Jin
  Eastern Jin Sixteen Kingdoms
Northern and Southern dynasties
420–589
Sui 581–618
Tang 618–907
Five Dynasties and
Ten Kingdoms
907–979 		Liao 916–1125
Song 960–1279
  Northern Song Western Xia
  Southern Song Jin Western Liao
Yuan 1271–1368
Ming 1368–1644
Qing 1636–1912
MODERN
Republic of China on the mainland 1912–1949
People's Republic of China 1949–present
Republic of China in Taiwan 1949–present
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  • 214 BCE – Panyu established as a Qin base during Zhao Tuo's first failed invasion of the southern lands of the Baiyue
  • 204 BCE – Panyu becomes the capital of Zhao Tuo's kingdom of Nanyue.

Imperial China[]

  • 111 BCE – Panyu becomes a provincial capital of the Han Dynasty after the Han–Nanyue War as the Han expands southward.
  • 226 CE – Panyu becomes the seat of Guang Prefecture ("Guangzhou").
  • 401 – Guangxiao Temple first established as the "Baoen Guangziao" Temple.[3]
  • 537 – Temple of the Six Banyan Trees built.
  • 878–879 — Guangzhou massacre instigated by forces loyal to Huang Chao
  • 1350 – Huaisheng Mosque rebuilt.[4]
  • 1380 – Zhenhai Tower built.[citation needed]
  • 1516 – Portuguese merchants arrive.[5]
View of Canton with merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1665
  • 1600 – Pazhou Pagoda built.
  • 1619 – Chigang Pagoda built.
  • 1684 – British East India Company in business.[6]
Painting of the Thirteen Factories c. 1820, with flags of Denmark, Spain, the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and the Netherlands
  • 1821 – Xigutang literary society formed.[7]
  • 1822 - Fire.[8]
  • 1827 – The Canton Register, an English-language newspaper, begins publication.[9][10]
  • 1832 – Jardine, Matheson and Co. in business.
  • 1834 – Wetmore & Co. in business.[11]
  • 1835 – The Canton Press, an English-language newspaper, begins publication.[9]
  • 1840 – Augustine Heard and Company in business.[11]
  • 1841
  • 1842 – City designated a treaty port under the Treaty of Nanking.[6]
  • 1848 – Apostolic Vicariate of Guangdong-Guangxi established.
  • 1856
  • 1859 – Shameen Island divided into French and British concessions.[6]
  • 1861 – British/French occupation ends.[6]
  • 1863 – Sacred Heart Cathedral built.
  • 1866 – Yu Yin Shan Fang garden laid out.[12]
  • 1879
    • City area: 6.5 square kilometers (approximate).[13]
    • Population: 400,000 (estimate).[13]
  • 1894
    • Plague (3rd Pandemic).
    • Chen Clan Academy built.
  • 1895 – First Guangzhou uprising
  • 1908 – Guangzhou North Railway Station opens.
  • 1911

Republic of China[]

  • The Shakee Massacre on June 23, 1925 resulted in over two hundred casualties due to gunfire by British, French and Portuguese forces in Shaji (called Shake in Cantonese)
  • 1918 – Urban council established.[citation needed]
  • 1923
    • June: National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in Guangzhou.[14]
    • Kuomintang in power.[15]
  • 1924
    • Peasant Movement Training Institute and Whampoa Military Academy open.
    • Canton Merchant Volunteers Corps Uprising.
    • National Kwangtung University established.
  • 1927 – December 11–13: Communist uprising.[16]
  • 1931 – Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall built.
  • 1932
  • 1933 – Haizhu Bridge constructed.
  • 1936
  • 1938 – October 21: Japanese occupation begins.[6]
  • 1945 – September 16: Japanese occupation ends.[17]
  • 1949
    • Nationalist government under the acting president Li Zongren relocates to Guangzhou.
    • Nanfang Daily newspaper begins publication.

People's Republic of China[]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ EB (1878), p. 37.
  2. ^ EB (1911), p. 218.
  3. ^ IDHP (1996).
  4. ^ ArchNet.org. "Guangzhou". USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  5. ^ Szczesniak (1956).
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Webster's (1960).
  7. ^ Hiromasa (1986).
  8. ^ Chronologies (1990), "Fires".
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Guangzhou Newspapers", WorldCat, Online Computer Library Center, retrieved 14 March 2013
  10. ^ Slade, John (1835), Canton Register, Vol. VIII
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b c Farris (2007).
  12. ^ Keswick (2003).
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Lo & al. (1977).
  14. ^ Dictionary of the CCP (2012), p. 15.
  15. ^ Paulès (2009).
  16. ^ Dirlik (1997).
  17. ^ CCAHC (2000).
  18. ^ "Garden Search: China". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  19. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279. Canton
  20. ^ "部分年份城乡人口分布", 广东省志：人口志 (in Chinese), Local Records Office of Guangdong, retrieved 4 August 2011
  21. ^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  22. ^ Lam (2007).
  23. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  24. ^ "Guangzhou", China, Lonely Planet, retrieved 14 March 2013
  25. ^ Kristof, Nicholas (3 May 1992), "Guangzhou: Let a Thousand Lipsticks Bloom", New York Times
  26. ^ Jump up to: a b 广州市商业网点发展规划主报告（2003—2012） (PDF), Beijing: Department of Market System Development, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, retrieved 4 August 2011
  27. ^ UN (2005).
  28. ^ "China". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  29. ^ Komanoff, Charles (15 March 2010), "Postcard From a Guangzhou Traffic Jam", New York Times
  30. ^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva

References[]

See also: Bibliography of Guangzhou
  • John Stewart Bowman, ed. (2000), Columbia Chronologies of Asian History & Culture, Columbia University Press.
  • Douglas, Robert Kennaway (1878), "Canton" , in Baynes, T. S. (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 37–39
  • Douglas, Robert Kennaway (1911), "Canton" , in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, 5 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 218–220.
  • Sullivan, Lawrence R. (2012), Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0-8108-7225-7.
  • Schellinger; Salkin, eds. (1996), International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania, Routledge, ISBN 9781884964046
  • Wetterau, Bruce (1990), New York Public Library Book of Chronologies, New York: Prentice Hall, OL 1885709M.
  • Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M.
  • Dirlik, Arif (1997), "Narrativizing Revolution: The Guangzhou Uprising (11-13 December 1927) in Workers' Perspective", Modern China, 23
  • Farris, Jonathan A. (2007), "Thirteen Factories of Canton: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation", Buildings & Landscapes, 14
  • Hiromasa, Inoue (1986), "Wu Lanxiu and Society in Guangzhou on the Eve of the Opium War", Modern China, 12
  • Keswick, Maggie (2003), The Chinese Garden, Frances Lincoln Publishers, ISBN 9780711220317
  • Lam Lap (2007), "The Revival of Classical-Style Poetry Writing: A Field Study of Poetry Societies in Guangzhou", Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 29
  • Lo Chor-Pang Pannell, Clifton W.; Welch, Roy (1977), "Land Use Changes and City Planning in Shenyang and Canton", Geographical Review, 67.
  • Paulès, Xavier (2009), "Opium in the City: A Spatial Study of Guangzhou's Opium Houses, 1923–1936", Modern China, 35
  • Szczesniak, Boleslaw (1956), "Pictorials of Contempt: A Note on the British in Mid-19th Century Canton", Monumenta Serica, 15
  • United Nations (2005), Free Trade Zone and Port Hinterland Development, United Nations Publications, ISBN 9789211204346.

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