Events in the year 1920 in China.

Incumbents

  • President: Xu Shichang
  • Premier: Jin Yunpeng

Events

  • July 14–23 – Zhili–Anhui War
  • December 16 – 1920 Haiyuan earthquake
  • Second Guangdong–Guangxi War
  • Alice Dollar incident
  • Establishment of the Republic of China Air Force

Births

  • April 18 – Wang Zigan, papercutting artist (died 2000)
  • May 3 – Xu Liangying, physicist (died 2013)
  • August 20 – Jiang Zhuyun, revolutionary martyr (died 1949)
  • September 30 – Eileen Chang, writer (died 1995)
  • November 24 – Chao Kuang Piu, industrialist and philanthropist (died 2021)

Deaths

  • January 17 – Yang Changji, teacher, scholar and writer (born 1871)
  • January 23 – Mao Yichang, farmer and grain merchant, father of Mao Zedong (born 1870)
  • Li Ruiqing
  • Li Chun

References


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