31 Dez 1965 Jahr - May: The Communist Party of China (CCP) proclaims the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
June: First organized Red Guard brigade formed, party calls for the purging of all "imperialists."
August: Zedong and the party continue the call for purging rightists and a mass revolution.
September: More than a thousand people are murdered or forced to suicide by the Red Guard in Shanghai.
August-November: Tiananmen Square receives estimated 11 million Red Guards on eight different occasions.