Labels:text | font | screenshot | paper | letter OCR: CHRONOLOGY DECEMBER 26, 1893 Bom Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), in Shaoshan, Hunan province, China, into a prosperous peasant family. 1921 Attends inaugural meeting of the CCP. 1931 Organizes the Jiangxi Soviet Republic, a breakaway "state within a state" in southeast China. OCTOBER 1934 Forced to abandon Communist base in Jiangxi, embarks on the Long March to Shaanxi in northwest China. FEBRUARY 1935 Elected chairman of the Central Committee of the CCP. SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 Elected chairman of the People's Republic of China after his victory over Chiang Kai-shek. MAY 3, 1958 Announces the "Great Leap Forward." MAY 1966 Launches the Cultural Revolution. SEPTEMBER 9, 1976 Dies, age 82, in Beijing.
