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1914 In China
Events in the year 1914 in China. Incumbents *President: Yuan Shikai *Vice President: Feng Guozhang *Premier: Xiong Xiling (until 12 February), Sun Baoqi (from 12 February to 1 May), Xu Shichang (from 1 May) Events * Bai Lang Rebellion * 6 April - Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Kiaotsu, in Guangdong * Siege of Tsingtao * Simla Accord * Establishment of the Zhongshan Park, in Shanghai * Establishment of the Sin Hua Bank, in Beijing Births *4 January - Chen Tingru, World War II army officer (d. 2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...) References {{China-hist-stub 1910s in China Years of the 20th century in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Shantou
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shantou/Swatow ( la, Scianteuven(sis), ) is a diocese located in the city of Shantou in the Ecclesiastical province of Guangzhou in China. History * April 6, 1914: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Chaozhou 潮州 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Guangdong 廣東 * August 18, 1915: Renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Shantou 汕頭 * April 11, 1946: Promoted as Diocese of Shantou 汕頭 Leadership * Bishops of Shantou 汕頭 (Roman rite) ** Bishop Peter Zhuang Jian-jian (2006–present) ''(Clandestinely)'' ** Bishop John Cai Tiyuan (1981–2000) ** Bishop Charles Vogel, M.E.P. (April 11, 1946–April 13, 1958) * Vicars Apostolic of Shantou 汕頭 (Roman Rite) ** Bishop Charles Vogel, M.E.P. (December 9, 1935–April 11, 1946) ** Bishop Adolphe Rayssac ''Adolphe'' is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In China
Events from the year 2017 in China. Incumbents Paramount leader * General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – Xi Jinping Head of state * President – Xi Jinping ** Vice President – Li Yuanchao Head of government * Premier – Li Keqiang ** Vice Premiers – Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang, Ma Kai National legislature * Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang Political advisory * Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng Governors * Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying * Governor of Fujian Province – Yu Weiguo (until 2 January), Tang Dengjie (starting 2 January) * Governor of Gansu Province – Lin Duo (until 11 April), Tang Renjian (starting 11 April) * Governor of Guangdong Province – Tang Renjian * Governor of Guizhou Province – Shen Yiqin * Governor of Hainan Province – Shen Xiaoming * Governor of Hebei Province – Zhang Qingwei (until March), Xu Qin (starting March) * Governor of Heilongjiang Province &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Tingru
Chen Tingru () was a Chinese veteran. In the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, he was well known for sitting in the first row of the veteran formation as the most senior veteran. Chen was born in Lianshui, Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o .... He graduated from a normal school and became the principal of a primary school. However, his students scattered since the county was captured by the Japanese Army; he had to quit. Affected by the local guerrillas, Chen determined to join them in 1939. Based in the northern part of Jiangsu province, he began to peddle propaganda against the invaders. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1942. Later, Chen was promoted to be a middle-ranking officer who was in charge of administrative and political work. He retired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4 January
Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. *1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance. * 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. *1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. *1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir ''Twelve Years a Slave'' later becomes a national bestseller. *1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. *1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin Hua Bank
Sin Hua Bank (), or Sin Hua Trust and Savings Bank Limited, was a Chinese bank established in Beijing in 1914. It later moved its headquarters to Shanghai. Sin Hua established its Hong Kong branch in 1947 and was renamed to Sin Hua Trust, Savings and Commercial Bank Limited in 1948. It moved its headquarters back to Beijing in 1980. It merged (along with nine others) with Hong Kong-based Po Sang Bank in 2001 to form Bank of China (Hong Kong). Between 1989 (after the Hong Kong branch of the Bank of China The Bank of China (BOC; ) is a Chinese majority state-owned commercial bank headquartered in Beijing and the fourth largest bank in the world. The Bank of China was founded in 1912 by the Republican government as China's central bank, repl ... moved to the new Bank of China Tower) and 2001, its headquarters were located at the Bank of China Building in Central. Defunct banks of China Defunct banks of Hong Kong Bank of China Companies based in Beijing Companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhongshan Park (Shanghai)
Zhongshan Park (), formerly called Jessfield Park and Zhaofeng Park (), is a park in Changning District, Shanghai, China. The park has a large collection of trees and flowers. People fly kites and play sport games on the large meadow areas. Location The park is located centrally in the Changning District. To the north is Suzhou Creek and the East China University of Politics and Law. There is a large shopping mall with a tall skyscraper above, Cloud Nine, southwest of the park. History Zhongshan Park was established in 1914 by the Shanghai Municipal Council as Jessfield Park (極司非爾花園), after Jessfield Road (now Wanhangdu Road) which led to the park. The park was in the extra-settlement roads area beyond the formal boundaries of the Shanghai International Settlement but was administered by the Settlement's authority, the Shanghai Municipal Council. Before the property became a public park, it was the southern half of a private garden owned by H. Fogg, a British pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simla Accord (1914)
The Simla Convention, officially the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, . Retrieved 20 March 2009 was an ambiguous concerning the status of negotiated by representatives of the , |
Siege Of Tsingtao
The siege of Tsingtao (or Tsingtau) was the attack on the German port of Tsingtao (now Qingdao) in China during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom. The siege was waged against Imperial Germany between 27 August and 7 November 1914. The siege was the first encounter between Japanese and German forces, the first Anglo-Japanese operation of the war, and the only major land battle in the Asian and Pacific theatre during World War I. Background Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany joined other European powers in a scramble for colonial possessions. As with the other world powers (including the United States and Japan), Germany began to interfere in Chinese local affairs. After two German missionaries were killed in the Juye Incident in 1897, China was forced to agree to the Kiautschou Bay concession in Shantung (now Shandong) to Germany in 1898 on a 99-year lease. Germany then began to assert its influence across the rest of the province and built t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai Lang Rebellion
The Bai Lang Rebellion was a Chinese "bandit" rebellion lasting from mid 1913 to late 1914. Launched against the Republican government of Yuan Shikai, the rebellion was led by Bai Lang. His rebel army was an eclectic mix of anti-Yuan Shikai troops and rebels, bandit groups and Gelaohui (secret society) members. As a unit, they were allied to southern Guangdong based revolutionaries. Naqshbandi Khufiyya Sufi Muslim general Ma Anliang took advantage of the war to allow the massacre of the rival Muslim Xidaotang sect and then to excute the Muslim leader of the Xidaotang, Ma Qixi and his family. Bai Lang: The individual Bai Yung-chang or Bai Langzai, more commonly known by his pseudonym Bai Lang, was born in 1873, in Baofeng, Henan, to a wealthy family. As a youth, Bai took a variety of "hands-on" jobs including employment as a government salt transporter and service as an anti-bandit militiaman. Nevertheless, his life changed in 1897 when he was arrested for getting into a fight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The Republic Of China
The president of the Republic of China, now often referred to as the president of Taiwan, is the head of state of the Republic of China (ROC), as well as the commander-in-chief of the Republic of China Armed Forces. The position once had authority of ruling over Mainland China, but its remaining jurisdictions has been limited to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other smaller islands since the conclusion of Second Chinese Civil War. Originally elected by the National Assembly, the presidency was intended to be a ceremonial office with no real executive power as the ROC was originally envisioned as a parliamentary republic. Since the 1996 presidential election, the president is directly elected by plurality voting to a four-year term, with incumbents limited to serving two terms. The incumbent, Tsai Ing-wen, succeeded Ma Ying-jeou on May 20, 2016, to become the first female president in the history of Taiwan. Qualifications * The ''Presidential and Vice Presidential Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Shichang
Xu Shichang (Hsu Shih-chang; ; courtesy name: Juren (Chu-jen; 菊人); October 20, 1855 – June 5, 1939) was the President of the Republic of China, in Beijing, from 10 October 1918 to 2 June 1922. The only permanent president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian, his presidency was also the longest of the Warlord era (China), warlord era. Previously, he was Minister of the Cabinet of the Imperial Cabinet during the Qing dynasty, Qing Dynasty. Biography Xu Shichang's ancestral hometown was Yinxian County (current Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Yinzhou District), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Born in Weihui, Henan, he was Yuan Shikai's closest friend. He was at one time the Viceroy of the Three Northeast Provinces, served as minister of the cabinet in Yikuang, Prince Qing's Prince Qing's Cabinet, Cabinet, and tutored Emperor of China Puyi. At the end of the Qing dynasty, Xu was made chief of the general staff despite being a civilian. Following the overthrow of the monarchy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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