Timeline of Fuzhou

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.

Prior to 10th century

• 2nd century BCE - City called "Ye."^[1]
• 2nd century CE - City renamed "Houguan."^[1]
• 220 CE - Hans in power (approximate date).
• 527 - Dizang Temple founded.
• 789 - City "divided into two counties."^[1]
• 799 - Wu Ta (乌塔) "Black Pagoda" built.

10th-13th centuries

• 901 - City outer walls built.^[2]
• 904 - Bai Ta (白塔) "White Pagoda" built.^[3]
• 909 - City becomes capital of Kingdom of Min.^[2]
• 915 - Yongquan Temple founded.
• 948 - City renamed "Fuzhou."
• 1283 - Provincial capital relocated to Fuzhou from Zeytoon.^[4]

19th century

• 1843 - Port opens to European commerce per Treaty of Nanking.^[5]
• 1845 - British consulate established.^[6]
• 1847 - American Presbyterian Mission active.^[7]
• 1860 - St. John's Church dedicated.
• 1871 - Foochow Arsenal constructed.^[5]
• 1874 - Flood.^[8]
• 1878 - 30 August: Demonstration against missionaries.^[9]
• 1881 - Anglo-Chinese College founded.^[10]
• 1884 - 23–26 August: Battle of Fuzhou.
• 1892 - Population: 635,000 (estimate).^[8]

20th century

• 1907 - Fujian Normal University founded.^[1]
• 1911 - Uprising.
• 1933 - November: Fujian People's Government headquartered in Fuzhou.^[11]
• 1936 - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University founded.^[1]
• 1937 - Fujian Medical University founded.^[1]
• 1938 - Japanese occupation begins.
• 1945 - Japanese occupation ends.
• 1949 - Fujian Ribao newspaper in publication.^[12]
• 1956 - Railway begins operating.
• 1958 - Fuzhou University founded.
• 1966 - Saint Dominic's Cathedral closes.
• 1979 - Flower Lane Church reopens.
• 1983 - Fuzhou administration formed into 5 districts and 8 counties.
• 1985 - Fuzhou Economic & Technological Development Zone established.^[1][13]
• 1991 - Fuzhou High-tech Development Zone and Fuzhou Science and Technology Park approved.
• 1992 - Fuzhou Free Trade Zone established.
• 1997 - Fuzhou Changle International Airport inaugurated.

21st century

• 2005 - Fuzhou Export Processing Zone established.
• 2006 - Population: 1,457,626 (estimate).^[1]
• 2008 - April: Protests.^[14]
• 2010 - Yuan Rongxiang becomes CPC Party chief.^[15]
• 2012 - November: World Summit on Internet and Multimedia held.^[16]

See also

• Fuzhou history
• List of universities and colleges in Fuzhou

References

1. Kenneth Pletcher, ed. (2011). Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places. Britannica Educational Publishing.
2. Alfred Schinz (1996), The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China, Edition Axel Menges, ISBN 9783930698028
3. "Fúzhōu". China. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
4. M. Klaproth (1832). "Rashid-ud-deen's Description of China under the Mongols". Asiatic Journal.
5. Britannica 1910.
6. Williams 1863.
7. Report of the jubilee year of the Foochow Mission of the A.B.C.F.M. 1896, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1897, OCLC 54235810
8. Directory 1892.
9. Kirby 1966.
10. Catalogue of the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, China. Methodist Episcopal Mission Press. 1893.
11. Ke-Wen Wang, ed. (1997), Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, Routledge, ISBN 9780815307204
12. "Fuzhou Shi (Fujian Sheng, China) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
13. Julie Y. Chu (2010), Cosmologies of credit: transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822347927
14. "New anti-French rallies in China". BBC News. 1 May 2008.
15. "Fuzhou". China Daily. China Daily Group. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
16. "International Federation of Multimedia Associations". Retrieved 22 March 2013.

Bibliography

Published in the 18th-19th centuries

• J.-B Du Halde (1741), "The Fourth Province of the Empire of China, Fo kien: The First Capital City of the Province, Fou tcheou fou", General History of China (3rd ed.), London: J. Watts
• Gazetteer of Fuzhou. 1754.
• Henry Charles Sirr (1849), "Foo-Chow-Foo", China and the Chinese, London: Orr
• S. Wells Williams (1863), "Port of Fuhchau", Chinese Commercial Guide (5th ed.), Hongkong: A. Shortrede & Co
• "Foochow". The Chronicle & Directory for China, Corea, Japan, the Philippines, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Siam, Borneo, Malay States, &c. Hong Kong: Daily Press. 1892.

Published in the 20th century

• "Foo-Choo", Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1902
• Marco Polo; Henry Yule (1903), "Concerning the Greatness of the City of Fuju", The Book of Ser Marco Polo (3rd ed.), London: John Murray
• Claudius Madrolle (c. 1904). "Fou-tcheou". Chine du Sud (in French).
• Arnold Wright, ed. (1908), "Foochow", Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China, London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co.
• "Fuchow", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Julean Arnold (1919). "Foochow Consular District". Commercial handbook of China. United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
• Yonekura Jiro (1936). "Fukushu no hattatsu" [Fu-chou's development]. Chikyu (in Japanese). 26. OCLC 297304192.
• Yeh Kuo-ch'ing (1936). "Yeh pu-ts'ai chin Fu-chou shih pien" [The distinction between Nanking and past/present Foochow]. Yu kung pan-yueh-k'an (in Chinese). 6. OCLC 633548231.
• James E. Kirby, Jr. (1966). "The Foochow Anti-Missionary Riot, August 30, 1878". Journal of Asian Studies. 25.
• Osaki Fujio (1979). "Fukushu no zeimo" [Fu-chou's taxation business]. Shudo shogaku (in Japanese). 20. OCLC 52817990.
• Fu I-ling (1982). "Ming Wan-li erh-shih-erh nien Fu-chou ti ch'iang mi feng ch'ao" [Rice riots in Fu-chou during twenty years of the Ming Wan-li era]. Nankai hsueh pao (in Chinese). 5. ISSN 0465-7942.
• Harriet T. Zurndorfer (1992). "Learning, Lineages, and Locality in Late Imperial China. A Comparative Study of Education in Huichow (Anhwei) and Foochow (Fukien) 1600-1800". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 35.
• Jude Howell (1999). "Development Patterns and Strategies of Xiamen and Fuzhou". In Jae Ho Chung. Cities in Post-Mao China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era. Routledge.

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