Portal:China/Anniversaries/August

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August 1

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August 2

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August 3

August 3:

• No China-related anniversaries could be found in this day.

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August 4

August 4:

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August 5

August 5:

• AD 25 – Guangwu claimed the throne as emperor of the Han dynasty after Wang Mang, who had seized the throne himself and proclaimed the Xin dynasty, died when peasant rebels besieged Chang'an.

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August 6

August 6:

• 1399 - Future Yongle Emperor launched the Jingnan Campaign to take over the Ming throne.

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August 7

August 7:

• 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.

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August 8

• 2008 - The Opening Ceremony to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin in Beijing at 20:08 local time.

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August 9

August 9:

• 1910 – Death of Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist (b. 1868)

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August 10

August 10:

• 1936 – Communist Party of China announced the intention for Second United Front with the Nationalist government.

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August 11

August 11:

• 1896 – First film ever played in China were displayed in Shanghai by French merchants.

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August 12

August 12:

• 1978 – Signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China

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August 13

August 13:

• 1937 – Battle of Shanghai broke out between China and Japan.

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August 14

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August 15

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August 16

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August 17

Births

• 1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and 5th President of China

Deaths

• 1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)

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August 18

Births

• 1955 – Tan Dun, Chinese composer

Deaths

• 1620 – Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)

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August 19

• 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China.

Births

• 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Computer Associates International.

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August 20

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August 21

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August 22

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August 23

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August 24

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August 25

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August 26

• 2004 - Chen Shih-hsin and Chu Mu-yen become the first and second athletes, respectively, to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games for Chinese Taipei since the team first competed as the Republic of China in 1932.

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August 27

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August 28

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August 29

Events

• 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
• 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

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August 30

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August 31

August 31:

• 1916 – Cai E left China for Japan and died 3 months later.
• 1959 – The first multi-purpose stadium in China, Workers' Stadium, was built in Beijing

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