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| 1926 |
| | | 25-year-old Hirohito succeeds to the imperial throne of Japan after five years as prince regent | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region | |
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| 1927 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno becomes the first chairman of the new Indonesian Nationalist Party | |
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| c. 1927 |
| | | The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Beijing falls to Kuomintang forces, extending the rule of Jiang Jieshi's National Government into the north of China | |
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| 1928 |
| | | A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state | |
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