Republic of China

This article is about the specific polity Republic of China and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was the official designation of the successor state ot Qing China. Nominally, it was the name of the state existing in mainland China from 1912 to 1949 and of the still existing Republic of China whose control is limited to the territory of Taiwan since 1949. In order to show the factual situations arisen from the different historical periods of China in the XX century, the Republic of China in our model only refers to the period immediately following the Qing Dynasty. From 1916 mainland China is treated as a patchwork of war lord-controlled polities, the "Warlords (Chinese Warlord Era)" polity. After this period, the conservative party in the long Chinese Civil War is treated directly as "Kuomintang" and the state founded by the Kuomintang in Taiwan is called simply "Taiwan" to clearly distinguish it from the the People's Republic of China that controls mainland China.

Establishment

February 1912: The Xinhai Revolution ended with the abdication of the six-year-old Qing Emperor, Puyi, on 12 February 1912, that marked the end of 2,000 years of imperial rule and the beginning of China's early republican era.

August 1912: After the fall of the Qing dynasty in October 1911, all remaining Chinese forces left Tibet during the Xinhai Lhasa turmoil. Between the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1912 and the annexation by the People's Republic of China in 1951, Tibet was a de facto independent state.

Chronology

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1. Xinhai Revolution

Was a revolt in Chin that ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China.

2. Sino-Mongolian War of 1913-1915

Was a war between China and Mongolia. It was initiated by a Mongolian invasion of China.

September 1913: During the summer, Mongolian troops captured Linx, Dolonnuur, Zhangjiakou and Guisui.

3. Chinese Warlord Era

Was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions.

June 1916: After the death of Yuan Shikai, China become ruled by a patchwork of warlords.

4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

July 1914: Britain and independent Tibet signed an agreement (Simla Agreement) in 1913 to settle their border issues.

December 1915: The Empire of China was a short-lived attempt by statesman and general Yuan Shikai from late 1915 to early 1916 to reinstate monarchy in China, with himself as the Hongxian Emperor.

March 1916: Establishment of the Empire of China unsuccessful and it set back the Chinese republican cause by many years and fractured China into a period of conflict between various local warlords.