Beijing
City
Capital of China under the Ming and Qing, of the Beiyang government until 1928 and of the People's Republic since 1949; called Peiping 1928-49.
Names
- June 28, 1928 – September 27, 1949 PeipingName while Nanjing was the capital
Held by
- 1789 – December 31, 1911 Imperial China
- 1912 – September 30, 1949 Republic of China
- since October 1, 1949 People's Republic of China
Capital of
- since 1421 Imperial China
- April 2, 1912 – June 15, 1928 Republic of China Seat of the Beiyang government
- since October 1, 1949 People's Republic of China
Events here 29
- 1813 Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813
- September 21, 1860 Battle of Palikao
- October 18, 1860 Convention of Peking
- December 1, 1887 Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking
- March 27, 1898 Convention for the Lease of the Liaotung Peninsula
- September 22, 1898 Wuxu Coup
- October 18, 1899 – September 7, 1901 Boxer Rebellion
- June 20 – August 14, 1900 Siege of the International Legations
- August 14–15, 1900 Battle of Peking (1900)
- September 7, 1901 Boxer Protocol
- 1906 Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet
- May 4, 1919 May Fourth Movement
- October 23, 1924 1924 Beijing Coup
- February 26, 1925 Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention
- August 1, 1927 – May 1, 1950 Chinese Civil War
- July 7–9, 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident
- August 1937 Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
- July 21, 1945 – October 1, 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution
- November 29, 1948 – January 31, 1949 Pingjin Campaign
- October 1, 1949 Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
- August 18 – September 5, 1966 Red August
- February 21–28, 1972 Nixon's visit to China
- December 18, 1978 Chinese economic reform
- December 19, 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration
- March 26, 1987 Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration
- April 15 – June 4, 1989 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- August 8–24, 2008 2008 Summer Olympics
- 2011 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
- June 23, 2022 14th BRICS summit