| 1950
|
|
| Jan. 6 -- |
The Republic of China severs diplomatic
relations with Britain following Britain's recognition of the communist
regime. |
| 11 -- |
The UN Security Council rejects a Soviet
proposal for the immediate expulsion of the ROC delegation. |
| 28 -- |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declares
that the Republic of China will not be bound by any agreement signed
between the Chinese communist regime and the Soviet Union. |
| Mar. 1 -- |
President Chiang Kai-shek resumes office
in Taipei. |
| 7 -- |
President Chiang nominates General Chen
Cheng as president of the Executive Yuan (premier). |
| Apr. 5 -- |
The Executive Yuan grants Taiwan authority
to carry out self-government by popular election in counties and cities
within two months. |
| June 27 -- |
US President Truman orders the US Seventh
Fleet to prevent a communist attack on Taiwan and asks the ROC government
to cease air and sea operations against the mainland. |
| July 2 -- |
A popular election for a Hualien county
council is held, marking the beginning of self-government in Taiwan. |
| 31 -- |
General Douglas MacArthur arrives in
Taipei to confer with President Chiang. |
| Aug. 10 -- |
Karl L. Rankin arrives in Taipei as
charge d'affaires of the US embassy. |
| 16 -- |
Taiwan, formerly consisting of eight
counties and nine cities, is redivided into 16 counties and five cities. |
| Nov. 1 -- |
The Chinese communists announce aid
to the Korean communists in the fight against UN forces in Korea. |
| 30 -- |
The UN Security Council orders the Chinese
communist forces to leave Korea. |
| 1951
|
|
| Feb. 1 -- |
The UN General Assembly condemns the
Chinese communists as aggressors in Korea. |
| May 1 -- |
US Major General William C. Chase arrives
in Taipei as the first chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group
(MAAG) in Taiwan. |
| 18 -- |
The UN General Assembly approves a global
embargo on shipments of arms and war material to the Chinese and North
Korean communists. |
| 25 -- |
The Legislative Yuan adopts the 37.5
Percent Farm Rental Reduction Act. |
| 30 -- |
The government announces plans to sell
arable public land to tenant farmers on easy payment terms. |
| Dec. 11 -- |
The Taiwan Provincial Assembly is established. |
| 1952
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|
| Feb. 1 -- |
The UN General Assembly finds the Soviet
Union guilty of violation of the 1945 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
and Alliance. |
| Apr. 28 -- |
The Treaty of Peace between the Republic
of China and Japan is signed in Taipei. |
| Oct. 22 -- |
The first worldwide Overseas Chinese
Conference opens in Taipei. |
| 31 -- |
The China Youth Corps is organized. |
| 1953
|
|
| Jan. 10 -- |
The Legislative Yuan adopts the Land-to-the-Tiller
Act. |
| 25 -- |
President Chiang announces abrogation
of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 1945
and its related documents. |
| Apr. 2 -- |
Karl L. Rankin becomes the American
ambassador to the ROC. |
| 12 -- |
The Legislative Yuan passes a bill submitted
by President Chiang, extending the term of office for legislators
another year, i.e., to May 7, 1954. |
| July 17 -- |
Guerrillas on Kinmen conduct a successful
raid against the communist-held Tungshan Island off the southern coast
of Fujian. |
| Sep. 27 -- |
President Chiang recommends an extension
of the term of office of the delegates to the first National Assembly,
elected in 1947, until the second National Assembly can be elected. |
| Nov. 24 -- |
The government protests to the United
States against the proposed American transfer of the Amami Oshima
Islands to Japan. |
| 27 -- |
Korean President Syngman Rhee arrives
in Taipei. |
| 1954
|
|
| Jan. 23 -- |
More than 14,000 Chinese communist POW's
in Korea, who refused to return to the Chinese mainland, arrive in
Taiwan. |
| Mar. 11 -- |
The second session of the first National
Assembly approves indefinite extension of the Temporary Provisions
Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion. |
| 22 -- |
Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president
for a second six-year term. |
| 24 -- |
Chen Cheng is elected vice president. |
| May 20 -- |
President Chiang nominates O.K. Yu to
be president of the Executive Yuan (premier). |
| June 4 -- |
President Chiang appoints Yen Chia-kan
governor of Taiwan. |
| Dec. 3 -- |
The Sino-American Mutual Defense
Treaty is signed in Washington. |
| 1955
|
|
| Jan. 26 -- |
The US House of Representatives approves
a resolution authorizing President Eisenhower to employ American armed
forces to defend Taiwan, the Pescadores, and "related positions and
territories." |
| Feb. 7 -- |
Government troops begin to evacuate
the Tachen Islands. |
| Mar. 3 -- |
Foreign Minister George K.C. Yeh and
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles exchange instruments of ratification
of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty in Taipei. |
| 1956
|
|
| Jan. 12 -- |
The Taiwan Provincial Government promulgates
the Rules for the Enforcement of the Statute on Urban Land Reform. |
| May 28 -- |
Foreign Minister George K.C. Yeh informs
Philippine Ambassador Narciso Ramos that the ROC has full sovereignty
over the Nansha Islands. |
| July 7 -- |
Ground is broken for the construction
of the Central Cross-island Highway. |
| 1957
|
|
| Apr. 21 -- |
Taiwan voters go to the polls for the
third time to elect county magistrates, city mayors, and provincial
assemblymen. |
| May 3 -- |
The Council of Grand Justices of the
Judicial Yuan rules that the nation's three top representative organs--the
Legislative Yuan, the Control Yuan, and the National Assembly--shall
collectively represent the Chinese parliament in all international
parliamentary organizations. |
| Aug. 8 -- |
General Chow Chih-jou is appointed governor
of Taiwan, succeeding C.K. Yen. |
| Sep. 26 -- |
The first council meeting of the Asian
Peoples' Anti-Communist League opens in Taipei. |
| Oct. 20 -- |
President Chiang is reelected Tsungtsai
(director-general) of the Kuomintang. |
| 1958
|
|
| May 14 -- |
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran,
arrives in Taipei for a five-day state visit. |
| Aug. 1 -- |
An insurance program covering 180,000
government employees is put into effect. |
| 23 -- |
The Battle of the Taiwan Strait begins
with the Chinese communists firing on the Kinmen Islands. |
| Oct. 23 -- |
President Chiang and US Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles issue a joint communique reaffirming solidarity
between the two countries and stating that Quemoy and the Matsu Islands
are "closely related" to the defense of Taiwan and the Pescadores
under present conditions. |
| 1959
|
|
| Mar. 6 -- |
The Faith (36,000 tons), the first tanker
built in the ROC, is launched at Keelung. |
| 9 -- |
King Hussein of Jordan arrives in Taipei
for an eight-day state visit. |
| July 21 -- |
The Legislative Yuan revises the Conscription
Law, stipulating that 19-year-old men are to be drafted for two
years' service in the army or three years in the navy or air force. |
| Aug. 15 -- |
The ROC Army receives Nike-Hercules
ground-to-air guided missiles from the United States under a military
aid program. |
| Sep. 1 -- |
The Law on Compensation for Wrongful
Detentions and Convictions, designed to compensate people in cases
of miscarriages of justice, goes into effect. |
| 1960
|
|
| Feb. 2 -- |
The Council of Grand Justices of the
Judicial Yuan announces that the total membership of the National
Assembly, under the present period of national emergency, shall be
1,576. |
| 23 -- |
The ROC establishes diplomatic relations
with Cameroon. |
| Mar. 11 -- |
The third session of the first National
Assembly adopts an amendment to the Temporary Provisions Effective
During the Period of Communist Rebellion. |
| 19 -- |
The third session of the first National
Assembly decides to set up a committee to study the exercise of initiative
and referendum by the National Assembly. |
| 22 -- |
Chiang Kai-shek is reelected to a third
term as president, and Chen Cheng, to a second term as vice president. |
| May 2 -- |
Philippine President and Mrs. Carlos
Garcia arrive in Taipei for a six-day state visit. |
| 9 -- |
The Central Cross-island Highway is
opened to traffic. |
| June 18 -- |
US President Eisenhower arrives in Taipei
for a state visit. |
| 19 -- |
President Chiang and US President Eisenhower
issue a joint communique pledging that their governments will continue
to stand solidly behind the Sino-US Mutual Defense Treaty against
the Chinese communists in this area. |
| -- |
The Chinese communists hit Kinmen, and
the ROC artillery units retaliated. |
| Aug. 15 -- |
The Council of Grand Justices of the
Judicial Yuan rules that, courts of all levels shall be placed under
the jurisdiction of the Judicial Yuan. |
| -- |
The ROC recognizes the Congo (Brazzaville)
Republic. |
| 25 -- |
The ROC Olympic Team in the opening
procession of the Olympic Games in Rome protests the International
Olympic Committee's ruling compelling ROC athletes to compete under
the name of "Taiwan" instead of the "Republic of China." |
| Sep. 6 -- |
Yang Chuan-kuang, the ROC's decathlon
champion, wins the ROC's first Olympic silver medal. |
| 1961
|
|
| May 14 -- |
US Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon B.
Johnson visit the ROC. |
| Oct. 7 -- |
Two defecting Chinese communist pilots,
Shao Hsi-yen and Kao Yu-tsung, arrive in Taipei from South Korea. |
| 27 -- |
The 16th UN General Assembly votes for
the admission of Outer Mongolia. The Republic of China abstains. |
| Dec. 1 -- |
The first nuclear reactor in the ROC,
installed by Chinese scientists at the National Tsinghua University
campus in Hsinchu, is put into operation. |
| 18 -- |
The ROC establishes diplomatic ties
with Upper Volta. |
| 1962
|
|
| Mar. 14 -- |
Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan declares
that the ROC does not recognize Japan's so-called "residual sovereignty"
over the Ryukyu Islands. |
| Apr. 3 -- |
President and Mme. Philbert Tsiranana
of the Malagasy Republic arrive for a six-day state visit. |
| Oct. 30 -- |
The ROC rejects the McMahon Line as
the boundary between China and India. |
| Nov. 22 -- |
General Huang Chieh is appointed governor
of Taiwan, succeeding General Chow Chih-jou. |
| Dec. 28 -- |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declares
border agreements signed between the Beijing regime and Outer Mongolia
and Pakistan illegal and not binding on the ROC. |
| 1963
|
|
| June 5 -- |
King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit
of Thailand arrive in the ROC for a state visit. |
| Aug. 4 -- |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declares
that the ROC does not recognize the border treaty signed between the
Beijing regime and Afghanistan. |
| 23 -- |
Ambassador to the United States Tsiang
Ting-fu signs the nuclear test ban treaty on behalf of the ROC. |
| Sep. 1 -- |
The Council for International Economic
Cooperation and Development is inaugurated to replace the Council
for US Aid. |
| Oct. 6 -- |
Dahomey President and Mme. Hubert Maga
arrive for a six-day state visit. |
| Nov. 16 -- |
The new premier, Yen Chia-kan, assumes
office. |
| 1964
|
|
| Feb. 12 -- |
Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida arrives
in the ROC to confer with President Chiang Kai-shek. |
| June 14 -- |
The NT$3,200 million multipurpose Shihmen
Dam is dedicated. |
| Oct. 27 -- |
The ROC and Korea sign a treaty of amity
in Seoul. |
| 1965
|
|
| Apr. 9 -- |
The ROC and the United States conclude
in Taipei an accord to establish a Sino-American fund for economic
and social development in Taiwan. |
| 25 -- |
The ROC and the United States sign in
Taipei an inventory of atomic equipment and materials to be reported
to the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
| July 1 -- |
The United States phases out economic
aid to the ROC. |
| 31 -- |
The ROC and the United States sign an
agreement in Taipei on the status of US forces in China. |
| Nov. 11 -- |
Malagasy President Tsiranana arrives
for a four-day visit. |
| 23 -- |
US warships return to the ROC 102 cases
of rare books that were sent to the United States for safekeeping
during World War II. |
| 1966
|
|
| Jan. 1 -- |
US Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
arrives in the ROC to confer with government leaders. |
| Feb. 15 -- |
Korean President Park Chung Hee arrives
for a four-day state visit. |
| Mar. 21 -- |
The National Assembly elects President
Chiang Kai-shek to a fourth term as president of the Republic. |
| 22 -- |
The National Assembly elects Premier
Yen Chia-kan the third vice president of the Republic. |
| 26 -- |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces
the ROC's opposition to US recognition of Outer Mongolia. |
| July 3 -- |
US Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrives
in Taipei to confer with ROC government leaders. |
| 6 -- |
The Legislative Yuan approves the Sino-Haitian
Treaty of Amity signed in Port-au-Prince on February 15, 1966. |
| 1967
|
|
| Feb. 1 -- |
The National Security Council is established
by President Chiang Kai-shek with Vice Premier Huang Shao-ku as secretary-general
and Ku Shu-tung as his deputy. |
| Apr. 4 -- |
Australian Prime Minister Harold E.
Holt arrives for a three-day visit. |
| July. 1 -- |
Taipei becomes a special municipality,
with Kao Yu-shu as its mayor. |
| 28 -- |
The Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement
is officially organized, with President Chiang Kai-shek as its head. |
| Aug. 3 -- |
The Executive Yuan decides to extend
the period of compulsory education from six to nine years beginning
in 1968. |
| 4 -- |
Malawi President Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda
arrives for an eight-day state visit. |
| Sep. 25 -- |
The first conference of the World Anti-Communist
League opens in Taipei, with more than 200 leaders from 72 nations
and areas attending. |
| Nov. 24 -- |
The Chinese Economic Development Research
Institute is inaugurated in Taipei. |
| 1968
|
|
| Aug. 24 -- |
Taichung's Golden Dragons baseball team
wins the 23rd Little League World Championship. |
| 25 -- |
Lesotho Premier Leabua Jonathan arrives
in the ROC for an official visit. |
| Oct. 23 -- |
Nigerian President Hamani Diori arrives
in the ROC for an official visit. |
| Dec. 17 -- |
The Chinese National Committee of the
International Press Institute is established in Taipei. |
| 20 -- |
The nation chooses 26 new members to
the National Assembly and the Legislative Yuan. |
| 1969
|
|
| May 26 -- |
Sierra Leone Premier Siaka P. Stevens
arrives in Taipei to confer with ROC leaders. |
| 1970
|
|
| July 12 -- |
ROC athlete Chi Cheng breaks the women's
200-meter record in West Germany, with a time of 22.44 seconds. |
| 1971
|
|
| Aug. 14 -- |
Ground for the construction of the North-South
Freeway is broken near Linkou. |
| Oct. 25 -- |
The Republic of China withdraws from
the United Nations. |
| 1972
|
|
| Mar. 21 -- |
President Chiang Kai-shek is reelected
to a fifth six-year term. |
| May 26 -- |
Former Vice Premier Chiang Ching-kuo
becomes premier after approval by the Legislative Yuan. |
| Aug. 20 -- |
The ROC Mei Ho baseball team wins the
Senior League world title. |
| 27 -- |
The Taipei Little League baseball team
wins the world title. |
| Sep. 29 -- |
The Republic of China severs diplomatic
relations with Japan. |
| Oct. 16 -- |
President Dawda Kairba Jawara of Gambia
arrives for an eight-day visit. |
| Nov. 12 -- |
The Republic of China wins the World
Cup Golf Championship in Melbourne. |
| Dec. 23 -- |
An election of additional members to
the National Assembly, Legislative Yuan, the Taiwan Provincial Assembly,
and of mayors and county magistrates is held in Taiwan, Kinmen, and
Matsu. |
| 1973
|
|
| Jan. 22 -- |
H.R.H. Prince Tuipelehake, C.B.E., prime
minister of the Kingdom of Tonga, arrives for a one-week visit. |
| Oct. 30 -- |
Tsengwen Dam and Reservoir, the largest
in Taiwan, are completed. |
| Dec. 25 -- |
Construction of the Suao-Hualien railroad
is launched. |
| 1974
|
|
| Jan. 26 -- |
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo announces an
across-the-board price adjustment to help stabilize the economy. |
| Apr. 20 -- |
The ROC announces the termination of
Taiwan-Japan flights by China Airlines and Japan Airlines. |
| May 14 -- |
Chen Te-nien, director of the Taiwan
Railway Administration, and Peter Godwin, representing Lazard Brothers
Co., sign an agreement under which a British consortium will loan
575 million pounds to TRA's railway electrification project. |
| Oct. 30 -- |
The first F5E Freedom jet fighter made
in the Republic of China rolls off the assembly line. |
| 1975
|
|
| Feb. 17 -- |
The China Steel Corp., the Continental
Illinois National Bank, and the Trust Company of Chicago sign a US$200
million loan contract to help finance construction of a steel mill
in Kaohsiung. |
| Mar. 21 -- |
Chinese officials stationed in Phnom
Penh return to Taipei. |
| Apr. 5 -- |
President Chiang Kai-shek passes away. |
| 6 -- |
Yen Chia-kan, vice president of the
Republic of China since 1966, takes the oath of office as the nation's
second constitutional president. |
| 26 -- |
The Embassy of the Republic of China
in Saigon suspends operations. |
| 28 -- |
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo is elected
chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Kuomintang. |
| June 9 -- |
The Republic of China terminates diplomatic
relations with the Republic of the Philippines. |
| July 1 -- |
The ROC terminates diplomatic relations
with Thailand. |
| 9 -- |
The Republic of China and Japan sign
a private aviation agreement that restores the Taiwan-Japan services
of China Airlines and a Japanese airline. |
| Oct. 21 -- |
The second naphtha cracking plant of
the Chinese Petroleum Corp. begins production. |
| 1976
|
|
| Mar. 26 -- |
Dr. Lin Yu-tang, 81, one of the best
known Chinese writers in English, dies in Hong Kong. |
| July 17 -- |
The ROC team withdraws from the Montreal
Games to protest competing under the name of "Taiwan." |
| Aug. 21 -- |
Prince Maphevu Harry Dlamini, prime
minister of the Kingdom of Swaziland, accompanied by Mme. Dlamini
and a party of eight, arrives for a seven-day visit. |
| Oct. 31 -- |
Taichung Port in west central Taiwan
is formally opened. |
| 1977
|
|
| Mar. 26 -- |
The Chinese research vessel Hai Kung
returns to Keelung after a 115-day exploratory expedition to the Antarctic. |
| May 18 -- |
China Airlines' new Boeing 747SP begins
nonstop service between Taipei and the US West Coast. |
| June 3 -- |
The 445,000-ton tanker Burmah Endeavour,
built by the China Shipbuilding Corp. for US Gatx Oswego, is launched
at Kaohsiung. It is the world's third largest vessel. |
| July 9 -- |
President Yen Chia-kan leaves for a
three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of King Khaled
Bib Abdul Aziz Al-Saud. |
| Sep. 19 -- |
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and Queen Halaevalu
Mata'aho of the Kingdom of Tonga arrive for a week's state visit at
the invitation of President and Mme. Yen Chia-kan. |
| Oct. 17 -- |
Akira Nishiyama, former Japanese ambassador
to South Korea, arrives to assume his duties as director of the Japan
Interchange Association's Taipei office. |
| 1978
|
|
| Mar. 21 -- |
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo is elected
by the National Assembly as president for the sixth constitutional
presidential term of the Republic of China. |
| 30 -- |
The first generator of Taiwan's first
nuclear power plant begins its full capacity operation of 636,000
kilowatts. |
| May 26 -- |
The Legislative Yuan endorses President
Chiang's appointment of Sun Yun-suan, former minister of economic
affairs, as the new premier. |
| June 20 -- |
The Republic of China is listed the
25th largest trading country in the world by the International Monetary
Fund. |
| Oct. 31 -- |
The Taiwan Area Freeway, with a total
length of 377 km, is opened to traffic. |
| Dec. 8 -- |
The Legislative Yuan passes the revised
Foreign Exchange Management Regulations under which the New
Taiwan dollar is no longer pegged to the US dollar. |
| 16 -- |
President Chiang Ching-kuo strongly
condemns the US decision to sever diplomatic relations with the Republic
of China in favor of the Beijing regime. |
| 1979
|
|
| Mar. 1 -- |
The US embassy in Taipei formally closes,
to be succeeded by the American Institute in Taiwan. |
| -- |
The Washington Office of the Coordination
Council for North American Affairs of the Republic of China opens. |
| Apr. 10 -- |
US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation
permitting continued commercial and cultural relations between the
US government and the ROC following the break in diplomatic ties. |
| July 1 -- |
The electrification of Taiwan's 1,153-km-long
west coast trunk line railway between Keelung and Kaohsiung is completed. |
| -- |
Kaohsiung becomes a special municipality
under the direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. |
| Sep. 6 -- |
The Cabinet announces the extension
of the ROC's territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, and the establishment
of a 200-mile economic zone. |
| Nov. 16 -- |
The Republic of China and the United
States conclude 40 days of talks on the revision of their air transportation
agreement. Under the memorandum issued by the two parties, the ROC
will open civil air services to four new US stops: Guam, Seattle,
New York, and Dallas-Fort Worth. |
| Dec. 10 -- |
A demonstration organized by opposition
politicians and the Formosa Magazine to commemorate Human Rights
Day, turns into the bloody riot known as the "Kaohsiung Incident,"
in which scores of demonstrators and policemen were injured. |
