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| 1975 |
| | | Chiang Kai-shek dies and is succeeded by his son, Chiang Ching-Kuo, as leader of the republic of China in Taiwan | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mao Zedong dies in Beijing, at the age of 82, and lies in state in the Great Hall of the People | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The much-hated Gang of Four are arrested in China within weeks of Mao Zedong's death | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Veteran Communist leader Deng Xiaoping secures his position as the real power in China's government | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Chilean author Isabel Allende publishes her first novel, The House of the Spirits | |
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| 1987 |
| | | John Adams' opera Nixon in China is performed in Houston | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Bernardo Bertolucci directs The Last Emperor, a film based on the life of Puyi, the last in China's imperial line | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet, the only candidate in Chile's presidential election, resigns when he wins less than half the votes cast | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Students, teachers and workers gather in large numbers in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to demand democratic reform | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The crowd demonstrating on Beijing's Tiananmen Square swells to more than a million | |
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