Chongqing Timeline of Events

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the sub-provincial city administration that was...

Timeline of Events

1941

6.5.1941

Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

1945

10.10.1945

The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.

2003

12.23.2003

PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.