Chinese Cities by Historical Events #2 - Statistics

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Year Event City % Correct
1898 During German occupation, this city underwent major urban construction including wharves, railway, a brewery, electrification, a sewer system and a safe drinking water supply Qingdao
93%
401 Kumārajīva (鳩摩羅什), a Buddhist monk, scholar, missionary and translator from the Kingdom of Kucha, was brought to this city by the armies of Emperor Yao Xing (姚興). Kumārajīva was hailed as a great master from the Western regions and translated many sutras into Chinese Xi'an
88%
1138 Song dynasty lost control of its northern half to the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in the Jin-Song Wars. During this time, the Song court retreated south of the Yangtze and established its capital at this city Hangzhou
68%
1931 The Japanese military staged an attack on a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near this city as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria Shenyang
68%
1947 On February 27 in this city, agents of the State Monopoly Bureau struck a Taiwanese widow suspected of selling contraband cigarettes which triggered an anti-government uprising that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang-led Republic of China government, killing thousands of civilians Taipei
63%
1839 The destruction of 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) of illegal opium seized from British traders by Lin Zexu (林則徐) on the banks of the Pearl River outside this city led to Great Britain declaring war on Qing China, which is now known as the First Opium War Dongguan
49%
1273 This city surrendered after a six year siege, allowing the victorious Mongol forces to push further into the Chinese heartland and the Song dynasty collapsed in just a few years Xiangyang
46%
ca 1300 BC Pan Geng (盤庚) moved the Shang dynasty's capital to this city. It is the source of the archeological discovery of oracle bones and oracle bone script, which resulted in the identification of the earliest known Chinese writing Anyang
39%
1038 Li Yuanhao (李元昊), a Tangut, declared himself the first emperor of the Great Xia with his capital at this city Yinchuan
37%
164 BC Liu An (劉安), the lord of this city, supposedly invented soya milk and tofu by "alchemical" methods, perhaps as a medicine for eternal life Huainan
29%
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