Civilizations, empires, nations (16)
- Xia dynasty (2070 - 1600 BC)
- Shang dynasty (1600 - 1046 BC)
- Zhou dynasty (1046 - 256 BC)
- Seven Warring States (475 - 221 BC)
- Qin dynasty (221 - 206 BC)
- Han dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD)
- Jin dynasty (266 - 420 AD)
- Sui dynasty (581 - 618 AD)
- Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD)
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907 - 979 AD)
- Liao dynasty (916 - 1125 AD)
- Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD)
- Great Jin (1115-1234)
- Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
- Qing dynasty (1636-1912)
Events (28)
- Great Flood of Gun-Yu (2300 - 2200 BC)
- Battle of Muye (1046 BC)
- Spring and Autumn period (770 - 481 BC)
- Warring States period (475 - 221 BC)
- Partition of Jin (403 BC)
- Qin's wars of unification (230 - 221 BC)
- Chu-Han War (206 - 202 BC)
- Rebellion of the Seven States (154 BC)
- Han-Xiongnu wars (133 BC - 89 AD)
- Yellow Turban Rebellion (184 - 205 AD)
- War of the Eight Princes (291 - 306 AD)
- Upheaval of the Five Barbarians (304 - 316 AD)
- Sixteen Kingdoms period (304 - 439 AD)
- Northern and Southern dynasties period (420 - 589 AD)
- An Lushan Rebellion (755 - 763 AD)
- Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907 - 979 AD)
- Jin-Song wars (1125-1234)
- Ten Great Campaigns (1755-1789)
- First Opium War (1839-1842)
- Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
- Second Opium War (1856-1860)
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)
- 1911 Revolution (1911)
- Chinese Civil War (1927-1936, 1945-1949)
- Xinjiang conflict (1933 - now)
- Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)
- Tiananmen Square massacre (1989)
* not counting Basic timeline of China (already listed at List of country history posts)
