This is a timeline of Chiang Kai-shek's (Jiang Jieshi) life.
1880s Year Date Event 1887 31 October Jiang is born to Jiang Suan and Wang Caiyu in Xikou 1889 Jiang's family moves to a two-story merchant's house a hundred feet or so down Wu Ling Street
1890s Year Date Event 1896 Jiang's father Jiang Suan dies and he inherits the house, bamboo grove, and rice paddies
1900s Year Date Event 1901 winter Jiang marries village wife, Mao Fumei 1903 Jiang takes new civil service examination, fails, enters the Phoenix Mountain Academy, a small Confucian school in Fenghua February Jiang transfers to the Golden Arrow Academy in Ningbo 1906 February Jiang transfers to the Dragon River School in Fenghua Jiang cuts off his Queue Jiang spends several months in Tokyo learning Japanese Jiang enters the Baoding Military Academy 1907 Jiang enters the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko, a school set up for Chinese students wishing to attend a Japanese military academy 1909 November Jiang graduates from the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko and enters the 19th Field Artillery Regiment at Takada
1910s Year Date Event 1910 27 April Mao Fumei delivers Jiang Jingguo 1911 10 October Wuchang Uprising: The New Army rebels in Wuchang and Jiang leaves for Shanghai Jiang is put in charge of a "dare to die" contingent made up of Fenghua fishermen reinforced by Green Gang and Red Gang members 4 November Jiang's men take part in the New Army's seizure of key public buildings in Hangzhou 1912 6 January Sun Zhongshan is inaugurated as provisional President of China by the National Assembly in Nanjing 12 January Jiang may or may not have assassinated Tao Chengzhang, head of the Guangfuhui, and rival of Chen Qimei for the governorship of Zhejiang 12 March Sun Zhongshan resigns and Yuan Shikai becomes president, however he only controls half of the old Manchu Army 25 August The Tongmenghui and four other parties form the Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), with Song Jiaoren as its leader 1913 March The KMT wins control of the National Assembly 22 March Song Jiaoren is assassinated August Jiang and Chen Qimei flee to Japan and Sun Zhongshan goes to Yokohama December Jiang meets Sun Zhongshan for the first time 1914 spring Sun Zhongshan sends Jiang to Shanghai to pull together the revolutionary underground but he fails and returns to Japan Sun Zhongshan sends Jiang to recruit warlords in Manchuria but he fails and returns to Japan 1915 18 January The Twenty-One Demands are handed to Yuan Shikai and a revised "Thirteen Demands" are eventually agreed upon Jiang and Chen Qimei return to Shanghai 10 November The defense commissioner in Chinese Shanghai, Zheng Ruzheng, is assassinated on the orders of Jiang and Chen An attack on the police headquarters by Jiang's "dare to die" teams fails and he falls ill 1916 February Jiang and Chen Qimei try to rebuild the Chinese Revolutionary Army in Shanghai 18 May Chen Qimei is assassinated 6 June Yuan Shikai dies and Sun Zhongshan returns to Shanghai 1918 The KMT flees to Guangzhou and launches the Constitutional Protection Movement with the support of Chen Jiongming and warlords in Guangdong and Yunnan March Jiang joins Chen Jiongming's army as senior operations officer for an attack on the warlord of Fujian Sun Zhongshan goes into exile in Shanghai due to warlord demand for more authority July Jiang takes a key town in Fujian 1919 May Jiang returns to Shanghai 4 May May Fourth Movement: Mass demonstrations spread all over China in response to the Treaty of Versailles Jiang adopts Jiang Weiguo, son of Dai Jitao Moscow announces that it will relinquish special rights in Manchuria and cancel all the "unequal" tsarist treaties with China
1920s Year Date Event 1920 spring Jiang contracts typhoid 30 September Sun Zhongshan appoints Jiang as chief of staff of the Second Guangdong Army October Guangdong–Guangxi War: Chen Jiongming and the Second Guangdong Army enter Guangzhou 12 November Jiang returns to Shanghai to brief Sun Zhongshan and then leaves for Zhejiang 1921 April Guangdong–Guangxi War: A Beiyang government backed Old Guangxi Clique army attacks Guangdong but is defeated by Xu Chongzhi and the KMT occupy Guangxi 4 May Sun Zhongshan becomes president again 10 May Jiang arrives in Guangzhou 4 June Jiang's mother dies 1922 Chen Jiongming attacks the KMT and Sun Zhongshan escapes to Pazhou 29 June Jiang joins Sun Zhongshan at Pazhou 9 August Jiang and Sun leave for Xianggang and Shanghai 1923 Sun Zhongshan returns to Guangzhou and appoints Jiang as Xu Chongzhi's chief of staff August Jiang leaves for the Soviet Union 15 December Jiang returns to Shanghai 1924 12 January Jiang returns to Guangzhou June Sun Zhongshan and Jiang preside over the opening of the Huangpu Military Academy 1925 12 March Sun Zhongshan dies 30 May May Thirtieth Movement: The Shanghai Municipal Police fire on striking workers, causing widespread anti-foreign demonstrations and riots 23 June Canton–Hong Kong strike: Huangpu Military Academy cadets are among those killed by British troops firing on anti-imperialist protesters 1 July The Nationalist government is formed in Guangzhou with Wang Jingwei as chairman of the new ruling political council The National Revolutionary Army is formed 20 August Liao Zhongkai is assassinated and Jiang enters the KMT's top triumvirate consisting of himself, Wang Jingwei, and Xu Chongzhi 20 September Xu Chongzhi is forced to leave for Shanghai due to charges of corruption October Jiang Jingguo is approved for study at the University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow Chen Jiongming is defeated November Disaffected KMT veterans including Dai Jitao vote to expel the communists from the party 1926 January Jiang is voted onto the Central Executive Committee 18 March Jiang is alerted to a plot by the Chinese Communist Party Central Executive Committee and the Russians to oust him 20 March Canton Coup: Jiang places Guangzhou under martial law and arrests 50 communists Wang Jingwei is ousted and leaves for France June Tang Shengzhi defects to the KMT 9 July Jiang becomes Supreme Commander 11 July Northern Expedition: The NRA takes Changsha October Northern Expedition: The NRA defeats warlord forces in Hubei and occupy Wuhan 18 December Northern Expedition: He Yingqin's First Corps capture Fujian and move into Zhejiang Northern Expedition: Jiang gains control of China from Guangxi in the south, to Sichuan in the west, to the Changjiang at Wuhan in the north, and northern Fujian in the east 1927 1 March The Wuhan Central Executive Committee places Jiang under a new military council and issues a secret order for his arrest 22 March Northern Expedition: Bai Chongxi's forces enter Shanghai 23 March Northern Expedition: Zheng Qian's forces enter Nanjing 24 March Northern Expedition: Jiang reaches Nanjing 26 March Jiang returns to Shanghai 6 April Wang Jingwei arrives in Shanghai and refuses leadership of the KMT, leaving for Wuhan Jiang institutes martial law and leaves for Nanjing Joseph Stalin declares that KMT is of no more use and that Jiang should be eliminated 12 April Shanghai massacre: Communists are killed or arrested in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, Ningbo, and Xiamen 19 June Feng Yuxiang joins the KMT 24 July Northern Expedition: Sun Chuanfang defeats NRA forces and takes Xuzhou 12 August Jiang resigns and leaves for Shanghai 16 August NRA forces retake Xuzhou and Sun Chuanfang flees across the Yellow River 1 December Jiang marries Song Meiling in Shanghai 1928 Jiang returns to power and Wang Jingwei resigns, leaving for France 2 May Jinan incident: The Japanese army bomb Jinan, killing hundreds 5 May Jinan incident: The Japanese arrest Nanjing's representative Cai Gongshi, cut out his tongue, gouge out his eyes, and then shoot him as well as ten of his staff members 11 May Jinan incident: The Japanese army attacks the NRA, killing 11,000 soldiers and civilians in Jinan 4 June Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin's train is bombed and he dies a few days later 19 June Northern Expedition: Zhang Zuolin's son, Zhang Xueliang, cables Jiang expressing his loyalty to the Chinese nation 10 October Jiang becomes the director of the State Council, in effect the president 29 December Chinese reunification (1928): Zhang Xueliang replaces the flags of the Beiyang government with the flag of the Republic of China 1929 28 March Jinan incident: The Japanese army withdraws from Shandong April Sino-Soviet conflict (1929): Zhang Xueliang seizes the Soviet consulate in Harbin July Sino-Soviet conflict (1929): Zhang Xueliang seizes the Chinese Eastern Railway 12 October Sino-Soviet conflict (1929): Soviet troops defeat Zhang Xueliang's forces December Sino-Soviet conflict (1929): Soviet rights to the Chinese Eastern Railway is restored
1930s