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.
• 1957 - Population: 616,000.[13]
• 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][14]
• 1990 - Population: 1,395,739.[15]
• 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.[16]
• 2010 - Yuan Rongxiang becomes CPC Party chief.[17]
• 2012 - November: World Summit on Internet and Multimedia held.[18]

2019: coronavirus (covid-19)

See also

• Fuzhou history
• List of universities and colleges in Fuzhou
• Urbanization in China

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, OL 24150791M
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. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279. Foochow
14. Julie Y. Chu (2010), Cosmologies of credit: transnational mobility and the politics of destination in China, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822347927
15. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
16. "New anti-French rallies in China". BBC News. 1 May 2008.
17. "Fuzhou". China Daily. China Daily Group. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
18. "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", Encyclopædia 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 (ed.). Cities in Post-Mao China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era. Routledge.

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