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August 1
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August 2
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August 3
- No China-related anniversaries could be found in this day.
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August 4
- No China-related anniversaries could be found in this day.
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August 5
- AD 25 – Guangwu claimed the throne as emperor of the Han dynasty after Wang Mang, who had seized the throne himself and proclaimed the Xin dynasty, died when peasant rebels besieged Chang'an.
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August 6
- 1399 - Future Yongle Emperor launched the Jingnan Campaign to take over the Ming throne.
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August 7
- 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
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August 8
- 2008 - The Opening Ceremony to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin in Beijing at 20:08 local time.
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August 9
- 1910 – Death of Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist (b. 1868)
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August 10
- 1936 – Communist Party of China announced the intention for Second United Front with the Nationalist government.
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August 11
- 1896 – First film ever played in China were displayed in Shanghai by French merchants.
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August 12
- 1978 – Signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China
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August 13
- 1937 – Battle of Shanghai broke out between China and Japan.
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August 14
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August 15
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August 16
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August 17
Births
- 1926 – Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and 5th President of China
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August 18
Births
Deaths
- 1620 – Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
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August 19
- 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China.
Births
- 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Computer Associates International.
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August 20
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August 21
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August 22
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August 23
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August 24
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August 25
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August 26
- 2004 - Chen Shih-hsin and Chu Mu-yen become the first and second athletes, respectively, to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games for Chinese Taipei since the team first competed as the Republic of China in 1932.
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August 27
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August 28
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August 29
- Events
- 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
- 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.
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August 30
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August 31
- 1916 – Cai E left China for Japan and died 3 months later.
- 1959 – The first multi-purpose stadium in China, Workers' Stadium, was built in Beijing
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