China
Explore China on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Sui dynasty reunifies China (581)
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE)
- Cultural Revolution (1966)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Cai Lun invents paper (105)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Chinese Civil War (1945)
- Reform and Opening Up (1978)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (1937)
- Liu Bang founds the Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Manchu conquest of China (1644)
- Warring States period (475 BCE)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Opium Wars overview (1839)
- Grand Canal completed (605)