Xi Jinping
1953– · Person
Paramount leader of China since 2012; consolidates power beyond Deng-era norms.
On these timelines: China, People, Master
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- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
Around 1953
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)