Sun Yat-sen died on 12 March 1925 in Peking Union Medical College Hospital, aged 58. A Chinese revolutionary leader, Sun trained as a physician in Hong Kong before turning to politics, and spent years abroad raising funds and support for the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. He promoted the Three Principles of the People: nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood. After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 he served briefly as the first provisional president of the Republic of China, then stepped aside in favour of Yuan Shikai. He later founded the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and in the 1920s cooperated with the Soviet Union and the Chinese communists. He died in Beijing of cancer before China was reunified, and is honoured as the father of the nation in both Taiwan and the mainland.
Before and after
- 1925Quantum mechanics is formulated
- 14 January 1925Birth of Yukio Mishima
- 26 January 1925Birth of Paul Newman
- 17 February 1925Birth of Hal Holbrook
- 12 March 1925Death of Sun Yat-sen
- 10 April 1925Publication of The Great Gatsby
- 19 April 1925Founding of Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo
- 20 April 1925Construction of Copenhagen Airport
- 19 May 1925Birth of Pol Pot
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