Tiananmen Square protests
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Tiananmen Square
in Beijing
has been the central point for several major historical protests, with their most commonly referred to Chinese name in parentheses.
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world...
in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
has been the central point for several major historical protests, with their most commonly referred to Chinese name in parentheses.
- May Fourth MovementMay Fourth MovementThe May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem...
, Tiananmen Square protests of 1919 (The May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy) - Tiananmen IncidentTiananmen IncidentThe Tiananmen Incident took place on April 5, 1976 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The incident occurred on the traditional day of mourning, the Qingming Festival, after the Nanjing Incident, and was triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai earlier that year...
, Tiananmen Square protests of 1976 (The April Fifth Movement) - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989Tiananmen Square protests of 1989The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...
(The June Fourth Incident, or the 1989 Movement for Democracy) - Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, allegedly involving Falun Gong practitioners (23 January 2001)