1949
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime, led by Chiang Kai-shek (
The Penghu Incident. Seven of the 8,000 high school students, faculty and staff in exile in Penghu from Shandong Province, China, were executed in Keelung after refusing forced military service; more than 100 remaining students were imprisoned and later forced into military service.
1950
The Statute Governing Prosecution of Communist Spies During the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion took effect on June 13.
Chen Yi (
1960
Free China, a magazine criticizing the KMT government, was banned and its founder, democracy activist Lei Chen (雷震), arrested on Sept. 4 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
1963
Taiwanese independence activist Chen Chi-hsiung (陳智雄) became the first person ever to be executed for advocating Taiwanese independence. Chen, who spoke Hoklo, Mandarin, Japanese, English, Malaysian and Dutch fluently, served as a Japanese diplomat in Dutch-ruled Indonesia during the Japanese colonial rule. Inspired by the Indonesian independence movement, Chen became an advocate for Taiwanese independence, and served as the circuit ambassador to Southeast Asia for the Provisional Government of the Republic of Taiwan founded by another independence activist, Liao Wen-yi (廖文毅), in Japan after World War II. Chen was later kidnapped by the KMT regime's secret service agents and shipped back to Taiwan via diplomatic mail, which is exempt from inspection by customs.
1964
National Taiwan University political science professor Peng Ming-min (
1969
Author and human rights activist Bo Yang (柏楊) was arrested on Sept. 1 and sentenced to 12 years in prison, accused of "being a communist spy" for translating a Popeye cartoon. In the cartoon that Bo translated, Popeye and his son decided to run for the president of an island. Popeye opened his campaign speech with "fellows," which Bo translated to chuanguo junmin tongpao men (全國軍民同胞們) or "dear fellow soldiers and civilians," a phrase that dictator Chiang Kai-shek often used to open his speeches. The then KMT government believed the translation to be a satirical one, which became the evidence for the "crime" that Bo committed.
1971
The Taiwan Presbyterian Church released a Proclamation on State Affairs on Dec. 17, calling for self-determination and democracy for the Taiwanese.
1975
Chiang Kai-shek died on April 5. Then vice president Yen Chia-kan (
1978
Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo (
1979
The Kaohsiung Incident, in which the government cracked down on an anti-government demonstration on Dec. 10, 1979, organized by an opposition magazine called Formosa. Eight leaders in the demonstration, including Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), Chen Chu (陳菊), Huang Hsin-chieh (黃信介), Lin I-hsiung (林義雄), Shih Ming-teh (施明德) and theologian Lin Hung-hsuan (林弘宣) were arrested.
1980
Kaohsiung Incident leader Lin I-hsiung's mother and his twin daughters were brutally murdered on Feb. 28, while the elder daughter was seriously injured. The identity of the murderer remains unknown.
1981
Carnegie University professor and supporter of Taiwan's democracy movement Chen Wen-cheng (
1984
Chiang Nan (江南), a Taiwanese author writing a biography on Chiang Ching-kuo, was killed on Oct. 16 at his house in San Francisco by a Taiwanese gangster commissioned by the Military Intelligence Bureau. Chiang Ching-kuo started the second term of his presidency.
1986
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the first opposition party under KMT rule, was founded on Sept. 28, before a ban on political parties was lifted.
1987
Martial law is lifted, and a National Security Law took effect.
1988
The ban on starting new newspapers was lifted on Jan. 1. Chiang Ching-kuo died on Jan. 13.
SOURCE: WANG CHAO-SHENG
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