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Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China.The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and as of 2021 a population of 9,423,400. [6]
1952 - Nanjing College of Aviation Industry [2] and Wutaishan Sports Center founded. 1953 - Nanjing University of Science and Technology founded. [2] 1957 - Population: 1,419,000. [10] 1958 - Taiping Kingdom History Museum active. 1968 Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge constructed. [11] Nanjing Railway Station opens. 1988 December: Nanjing anti ...
Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory, which delayed Michigan's admission to the Union. Texas annexation, the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into ...
China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 (2008). Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (2009). van de Ven, Hans (2017). China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937-1952. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9781781251942.
The first Republic of China national government was established on 1 January 1912, in Nanjing, with a constitution stating Three Principles of the People, which state that "[the ROC] shall be a democratic republic of the people, to be governed by the people and for the people." [63] Sun Yat-sen was the provisional president.
The Nanjing decade (also Nanking decade, Chinese: 南京十年; pinyin: Nánjīng shí nián, or the Golden decade, Chinese: 黃金十年; pinyin: Huángjīn shí nián) is an informal name for the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the Republic of China. It began when Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took Nanjing from Zhili clique ...
Admission to the Union is provided by the Admissions Clause of the United States Constitution in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, which authorizes the United States Congress to admit new states into the Union beyond the thirteen states that already existed when the Constitution came into effect. The Constitution went into effect on June 21 ...
Territorial evolution of the United States. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese-ruled Northern Mariana Islands came under control of the United States. [1] The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776.