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1914
 
    
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte        
1914 November 16
 
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The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege      
1920
 
   
A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda      
1921
 
    
Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai       
1924
 
    
20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems       
1927
 
   
Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China      
1927
 
   
Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region      
c. 1927
 
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The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing      
1928
 
     
Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China        
1928
 
     
A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing