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Mao Zedong becomes official leader of the Chinese Communist Party, as the elected Chairman of the Central Committee and the Politburo
The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh
Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime
Mao Zedong's long-standing ally Zhou Enlai heads both the home and foreign departments of the new republic
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sets up a new Republic of China in Taiwan, vowing to recapture the rest of the nation in due course
Chinese troops move into Tibet, meeting little resistance
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes his epic account of South America and its people, Canto general
Incursions by UN troops far into North Korea give China the pretext to enter the war
An agreement is signed by which a joint Tibetan-Chinese authority will nominally govern Tibet
The cult of Chairman Mao is officially encouraged in China, partly through steady publication of his works
In an armistice ending the Indochina War, France acknowledges the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
With his Hundred Flowers Campaign ('Let a hundred flowers bloom'), Mao Zedong invites criticism and then locks up the critics
Mao Zedong imposes on China a Great Leap Forward, an attempt at industrialization that results in economic chaos and widespread famine
Liu Shaoqi replaces Mao Zedong as China's president after the Great Leap Forward fiasco, but Mao remains Chairman
The Dalai Lama escapes from Tibet to India after the Chinese suppression of an armed uprising costing thousands of Buddhist lives
China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries
The Beijing ballet company goes political with The Red Detachment of Women, supervised by Mao Zedong's wife, Jiang Qing
Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Ghana, is toppled in a coup while away on a state visit to China
Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders'
Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known as the 'Little Red Book', is the constant companion of every Red Guard
The Gang of Four achieve malign power during China's Cultural Revolution
Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
