Timeline of Hangzhou explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Prior to 10th century

• 328 CE – Lingyin monastery founded near Hangzhou.
• 606 – City walls built.
• 609 – Grand Canal built.
• 630 – Mosque built (approximate date).
• 822 – Poet Bai Juyi becomes governor.

10th century

• 904 – City becomes capital of the Wuyue Kingdom.
• 954 – Huiri Yongming Temple built at West Lake.
• 963 – Baochu Pagoda built at West Lake.
• 970 – Liuhe Pagoda built.
• 975 – Leifeng Pagoda built.

12th–17th centuries

• 1127 – Song dynasty capital relocated to Hongzhou from Kaifeng after the Jingkang Incident of the Jin–Song wars.
• 1221 – Yue Fei Temple built
• 1275 – Population: 1.75 million.
• 1277 – Hangzhou Salt Distribution Commission established.
• 1276 – Mongols in power.
• 1621 – Huanduzhai publishing house in business.
• 1661 – Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.

19th century

• 1861 – Taiping rebels take city.
• 1863 – Imperial forces take city.
• 1867 – Hangchow Presbyterian Boys' School in operation.
• 1870 – Hu Ch'ing Yu T'ang medicine shop in business (approximate date).
• 1871 – Kwang-Chi Hospital established.
• 1885 – Kwang Chi Medical School established.
• 1896 – City opens to foreign trade per Treaty of Shimonoseki.
• 1897 – Qiushi Academy founded.
• 1899 – Hangzhou High School established.

20th century

• 1904 – Xiling Society of the Seal Art founded.
• 1907 – Qing Tai Men Station opens.
• 1908
  • Zhejiang Official Secondary Normal School in operation.
  • Presbyterian Mission Girls School opens.^[1]
• 1911
  • October 27: Uprising.
  • Zhejiang Medical School founded.
  • Population: 141,859.
• 1922 – Sisters of Charity Hospital founded.
• 1928
  • Kuomintang in power.
  • Population: 817,267.
• 1929
  • Zhejiang Provincial Museum established.
  • 1929 Westlake exposition held.
• 1937 – Japanese occupation begins.
• 1947 – Constitution of the Republic of China adopted
• 1949 – May: Communists take city.
• 1955 – Hangzhou Ri Bao (Hangzhou Daily) newspaper begins publication.^[2]
• 1956 – Hangzhou Xuejun High School and Hangzhou Botanical Garden^[3] established.
• 1957
  • Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport begins operating civilian flights.
  • Population: 784,000.^[4]
• 1958 – Hangzhou Zoo opens.
• 1962 – Wang Zida becomes mayor.^[5]
• 1966 – Hangzhou Gymnasium (arena) opens.
• 1972 – February: Richard Nixon visits city.
• 1977 – Zhang Zishi becomes mayor.
• 1978 – Hangzhou Teachers College founded.
• 1979 – Chen Anyu becomes mayor.
• 1981 – Zhou Feng becomes mayor.
• 1984 – Zhong Boxi becomes mayor.
• 1988 – Zhang Taiyan Museum opens.
• 1989
  • Protests.
  • Hangzhou Wahaha Nutritional Foods Factory in business.^[6]
  • Lu Wenge becomes mayor.
• 1990 – Population: 2,589,504.^[7]
• 1991
  • Hangzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone approved.
  • 1947 Constitution amended, former Nationalist government in Taiwan downplays claim to Hangzhou
• 1992
  • Wang Yongming becomes mayor.
  • Yue Fei Tomb shopping mall built.
• 1993 – Hangzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone approved.
• 1998
  • Zhejiang University established.
  • Hangzhou Xiaoshan Sports Centre (stadium) built.
  • Hangzhou Greentown Football Club formed.
• 1999 – Hangzhou railway station rebuilt.
• 2000
  • Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport begins operating.
  • Hangzhou Export Processing Zone approved.
  • Dragon Well Manor in business.^[8]
  • Population: 3,240,947.^[9]

21st century

• 2002
  • Xihuwenhua Square built.
  • Wang Guoping becomes CPC Party chief.
  • Leifeng Pagoda reconstructed.
• 2003 – Yellow Dragon Sports Center and Hangzhou No.2 Telecom Hub constructed.
• 2005 – Sun Zhonghuan becomes mayor.
• 2007
  • Hangzhou Sanchao Football Club formed.
  • Cai Qi becomes mayor.
• 2008
  • Hangzhou Public Bicycle program launched.
  • City logo design adopted.^[10]
• 2010
  • Shanghai–Hangzhou Passenger Railway begins operating.
  • Huang Kunming becomes CPC Party chief.^[11]
• 2011 – Shao Zhanwei becomes mayor.^[12]
• 2012 – November: Hangzhou Metro begins operating.
• 2013 – Air pollution in Hangzhou reaches annual mean of 61 PM2.5 and 106 PM10, much higher than recommended.

See also

• Hangzhou history
• List of universities and colleges in Hangzhou
• Major National Historical and Cultural Sites (Zhejiang)
• List of first batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of second batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of third batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fourth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fifth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou
• Urbanization in China

References

This article incorporates information from the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• • Hang-Chow-Foo . 11 . 439 . 1.

Published in the 20th century

• • • • • Hang-chow-fu . 12 . 917 . 1910 . . 1.
  • 1989 Democracy Movement in the Provinces: Impressions of the Popular Protest in Hangzhou, April/June 1989 . Keith Forster . Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs . 1990 . The student-worker protests that culminated in the Beijing massacre were not confined to the capital city. Protests had erupted, in ways that varied noticeably, across the breadth of China.. .
• Middle County Radicalism: The May Fourth Movement in Hangzhou . Wen-hsin Yeh . The China Quarterly . 1994.
  • The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Publishing . Ellen Widmer . Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies . 56 . 1996. .
• Notes on the Early Yuan Antique Art Market in Hangzhou . Ankeney Weitz . Ars Orientalis . 27 . 1997. .
• Book: Cities in Post-Mao China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era . Jae Ho Chung . Routledge . 1999 . A comparative analysis of economic reform and development in Hangzhou and Wenzhou cities . Keith Forster . Yao Xianguo. .

Published in the 21st century

• • A Chronology of West Lake and Hangzhou . China Heritage Quarterly . Geremie R. Barmé . 2011 . Australian National University . .

External links

• The Authoritative Website of Hangzhou History and Culture | WWW.HICENTER.CN

Notes and References

1. Web site: Union Girls School at Hangchow . Mary S. Mathews . 1913 . Missionary Survey . .
2. Web site: Hangzhou (China) Newspapers . USA . WorldCat . . March 15, 2013.
3. Web site: Garden Search: China . . London . 30 December 2015 .
4. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 . Hangchow .
5. Book: Directory of Officials and Organizations in China . . Malcolm Lamb . 2003 . New York .
6. Web site: From Popsicle Maker to Beverage Billionaire, China's Richest Man . October 1, 2012 . New York Times .
7. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . 1997 . United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 262–321 .
8. China Journal: Garden of Contentment . Fuchsia Dunlop . Fuchsia Dunlop . 24 November 2008 . The New Yorker .
9. Web site: China . www.citypopulation.de . Thomas Brinkhoff . Oldenburg, Germany . March 15, 2013.
10. Web site: Hangzhou Unveils Municipal Logo . https://web.archive.org/web/20130627102212/http://english.cri.cn/2946/2008/03/29/[e-mail] . dead . June 27, 2013 . March 29, 2008 . . People's Republic of China .
11. Web site: Party Leaders . CPC Hangzhou Committee and Hangzhou Municipal Government . March 15, 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130410042138/http://www.hangzhou.gov.cn/main/zpd/English/po/party/hkm/ . April 10, 2013 .
12. Web site: Hangzhou mayor Shao Zhanwei dies during NPC session . March 6, 2013 . South China Morning Post . SCMP Group.