Mass arrests and executions of members of the Chinese Communist Party and some leftists of the Kuomintang by the Nationalist government (1927-1928). It took place on 12 April 1927. The setting was Shanghai. It was part of the First Chinese Civil War and Purging the KMT. Those involved included Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Du Yuesheng and Cai Wei.
Before and after
- 1927Lemaitre proposes an expanding universe
- from c. 1927 to 1930Leonard Woolley excavates the Royal Cemetery of Ur
- 20 February 1927Birth of Sidney Poitier
- 6 March 1927Birth of Gabriel García Márquez
- 12 April 1927Shanghai massacre of 1927
- 16 April 1927Birth of Benedict XVI
- 7 May 1927Construction of San Francisco International Airport
- 21 May 1927Lindbergh flies the Atlantic alone
- 7 June 1927Founding of AS Roma
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The era
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