Asia

Hong, a failed examination candidate, taught from visions that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. His Taiping Heavenly Ki...

Railway nationalization protests in Sichuan in 1911 spiraled into national crisis. The accidental uprising at Wuchang on 10 Octobe...

The party survived near annihilation on the Long March of 1934 to 1935, building rural base areas on peasant land hunger and tax g...

Grievances over taxation, annexation, and perceived interference in religion had primied the Bengal army. Rifle cartridges rumored...

The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, evolved from elite petitioning into a mass movement. Gandhi return in 1915 introduc...

Nationalist leaders Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared independence two days after the Japanese surrender, on 17 August 1945. Dut...

Famine in 1944 and 1945 that killed up to two million people and the Japanese coup against the French administration in March 1945...

Mongolia declaration of independence in 1911 ended Qing rule, but Chinese warlord troops occupied the country in 1919, and in earl...

The Khmer Rouge grew from the 1960s insurgency and was strengthened by civil war after the 1970 coup and American bombing of the c...

The panchayat system installed in 1960 had banned parties and concentrated power in the palace. Growing protests through 1989, sha...

The fraudulent snap election of February 1986 and the defection of defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile and general Fidel Ramos trig...

Andres Bonifacio founded the Katipunan in 1892 to win independence from Spain. When it was discovered in August 1896, its members ...

The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 and unequal treaties with Western powers discredited the Tokugawa shogunate. Samura...

The Great Depression, budget cuts, and frustration among Western educated officials with royal absolutism led to the formation of ...

Syngman Rhee had ruled South Korea since 1948 with growing authoritarianism. The rigged presidential election of March 1960 sparke...

After the assassination of Park Chung-hee in 1979, General Chun Doo-hwan seized power and extended martial law. On 18 May 1980 stu...

Public anger at the Chun Doo-hwan regime grew after the death under police torture of the student Park Jong-chul in January 1987 w...

Economic collapse under the Burma Socialist Programme Party of Ne Win, including a demonetization that wiped out savings, led to s...

The death of the reformist leader Hu Yaobang in April 1989 sparked student gatherings in Tiananmen Square that grew into a protest...

The Awami League under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a majority in the 1970 Pakistani elections on a platform of autonomy for East Pak...

After the murder of a prominent party member and the arrest of its leaders, sympathetic army officers of the Peoples Democratic Pa...

Inspired by reform in the Soviet Union and the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, young activists such as Sanjaasurengiin Zori...

Akayev had led Kyrgyzstan since independence in 1991, but his government became increasingly associated with corruption and family...