Events in the year 1924 in China.

Incumbents

* President –

Cao Kun General Cao Kun (; courtesy name: Zhongshan () (December 12, 1862 – May 15, 1938) was a Chinese warlord and politician, who served the President of the Republic of China from 1923 to 1924, as well as the military leader of the Zhili clique ...

until October 30,

Duan Qirui Duan Qirui (; ) (March 6, 1865 – November 2, 1936) was a Chinese warlord and politician, a commander of the Beiyang Army and the acting Chief Executive of the Republic of China (in Beijing) from 1924 to 1926. He was also the Premier of the R ...

* Premier –

Gao Lingwei Gao Lingwei (; Hepburn: Kō Ryōi); (1870–1940) was a Chinese politician during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China. A Tianjin native, he was appointed to Hubei where he held many offices relating to finance and education i ...

until January 12, Sun Baoqi until July 2, Yan Huiqing until October 31, Huang Fu

Events

* June 16 –

Whampoa Military Academy The Republic of China Military Academy () is the service academy for the army of the Republic of China, located in Fengshan District, Kaohsiung. Previously known as the the military academy produced commanders who fought in many of China ...

is founded in China. * September 15 – November 3 –

Second Zhili–Fengtian War The Second Zhili–Fengtian War (Second Chihli-Fengtien War; ) of 1924 was a conflict between the Japanese-backed Fengtian clique based in Manchuria, and the more liberal Zhili clique controlling Beijing and backed by Anglo-American business int ...

: conflict in the Republic of China's Warlord Era between the

Zhili Zhili, alternately romanized as Chihli, was a northern administrative region of China since the 14th-century that lasted through the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty until 1911, when the region was dissolved, converted to a province, and renamed ...

and Fengtian cliques for control of Beijing. * August–October - Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising * October - Beijing Coup, ''coup d'état'' by

Feng Yuxiang Feng Yuxiang (; ; 6 November 1882 – 1 September 1948), courtesy name Huanzhang (焕章), was a warlord and a leader of the Republic of China from Chaohu, Anhui. He served as Vice Premier of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1930. He was ...

against Chinese President

, leader of the Zhili clique. Feng called it the Capital Revolution (). The coup occurred at a crucial moment in the Second Zhili–Fengtian War and allowed the pro-Japanese Fengtian clique to defeat the previously dominant Zhili clique

Births

*January 31 – Irene Chou *February 6 –

Jin Yong Louis Cha Leung-yung (; 10 March 1924 – 30 October 2018), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (), pronounced "Gum Yoong" in Cantonese, was a Chinese wuxia (" martial arts and chivalry") novelist and essayist who co-founded the Hong Kong d ...

*July –

Wang Huo Wang Huo (; born 1 July 1924) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Wang was a member of the 5th, 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Biography Wang was born in Shanghai in July 1924, with his anc ...

*August –

Huang Hongjia Huang Hongjia (; 5 August 1924 – 22 September 2021) was a Chinese scientist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a professor at Shanghai University. Life and career Huang developed coupling wave theory in the fi ...

*September 1 –

Yuan-Shih Chow Yuan-Shih Chow (, Pinyin: Zhōu Yuánshēn; 1 September 1924 – 3 March 2022), also known as Y. S. Chow or Zhou Yuanshen, was a Chinese and American List of mathematical probabilists, probabilist. He was Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, U ...

*September 24 – Shi Suxi *October 4 –

Samuel Lamb Samuel Lamb or Lin Xiangao (; October 4, 1924 – August 3, 2013) was a Protestant pastor in Guangzhou, China. He was a leader in the Chinese house church movement and known for his resistance against the state-sanctioned Three-Self Patriotic Mov ...

, Chinese Christian pastor (d. 2013) *November –

Wang Zhenyi Wang Zhenyi (; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is most well known ...

*November –

Tsai Wan-lin Tsai Wan-lin (; 10 November 1924 – 27 September 2004) was a Taiwanese businessman who, at the peak of his wealth in 1996, was considered to be the fifth richest person in the world, with a family net worth of US$12.2 billion. At the time of ...

, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2004) *December – Qiao Shi *

Yan Jinxuan Yan Jinxuan () (21 May 1924 – 20 November 2014) was a Chinese composer. She was best known for composing the music to the opera and ballet, ''The White Haired Girl''. The opera was first performed in 1945. Yan composed a ballet Ballet ...

Li Han (aviator) Li Han (, 1924 in Tang County, Hebei – 11 September 1997) was a MiG-15 pilot of the People's Republic of China. He was a flying ace during the Korean War, with eight victories. A member of the 4th Fighter Aviation Division.. He was the first ...

Deaths

*June 5 –

Qian Nengxun Qian Nengxun (1869 – June 5, 1924), courtesy name Ganchen (干臣) or Gancheng (干丞) was a Chinese politician from 1918 until his death in 1924. He served as the Premier of the Republic of China The Premier of the Republic of China, o ...

*October 9 – Lin Shu *November 12 –

Tian Wenlie Tian Wenlie ({{zh, 田文烈; November 9, 1858 – November 12, 1924) was a Chinese politician of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican period, military governor of Henan province and supporter of Yuan Shikai's restoration of the monarchy. He ...

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