Port Arthur was a fortified naval base in the south of Manchuria that had been leased to Russia since 1898.
11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time
11th October 2019
On the 13th December 1937, the Nanking Massacre began at the end of the Battle of Nanking – part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
At 7:48 on the morning of the 7th December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor.
On the 20th October 1935, the 6,000 mile Long March by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ended when the columns of troops led by Mao Zedong arrived in Shaanxi.
The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known as the Kuomintang, since shortly after the end of the Second World War.
On the 18th September 1931, the Manchurian Crisis – also known as the Mukden Incident –began when Japanese soldiers blew up a section of their own railway in the Chinese region of Manchuria.
On the evening of the 3rd June 1989, the People’s Liberation Army began firing on protesters taking part in the student-led Tiananmen Square protests.
The ‘May 16th Notification’ of 1966 effectively started the Cultural Revolution in China.
The world’s earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra, was created in China.
The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
3rd April 1882: Outlaw Jesse James shot by Robert Ford
3rd April 2020
2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with Argentine invasion
2nd April 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
