Nanjing
City
Capital city of Jiangsu Province, China, former capital of the Republic of China and China's Ming dynasty.
Names
- March 19, 1853 – July 19, 1864 TianjingTaiping capital name
Held by
- 1789 – December 31, 1911 Imperial China
- 1912 – September 30, 1949 Republic of China
- December 14, 1937 – September 9, 1945 Japan Military occupation
- April 21, 1949 – September 30, 1949 Communist-controlled China Military occupation
- since October 1, 1949 People's Republic of China
Capital of
- June 19, 1644 – June 8, 1645 Southern Ming
- since March 19, 1853 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Called Tianjing
- June 15, 1928 – November 20, 1937 Republic of China
- May 5, 1946 – April 23, 1949 Republic of China
- Wang Jingwei regime
Events here 12
- August 29, 1842 Treaty of Nanking
- December 1, 1850 – August 30, 1864 Taiping Rebellion
- March 8–19, 1853 Battle of Nanjing (1853)
- May 1856 – August 1856 Battle of Jiangnan (1856)
- May 15, 1860 Battle of Jiangnan (1860)
- March 14 – July 19, 1864 Third Battle of Nanjing
- January 1, 1912 Republic of China proclaimed
- March 24, 1927 Nanking incident of 1927
- August 21, 1937 Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- December 1–13, 1937 Battle of Nanking
- December 13, 1937 – February 7, 1938 Nanjing Massacre
- April 20 – June 2, 1949 Yangtze River Crossing campaign