During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

During the social and cultural climate of the ancient Eastern Jin Dynasty ( 316-420 AD ) based at Nanjing in the south, painting became one of the official pastimes of Confucian-taught bureaucratic officials and aristocrats ( along with music played by the guqin zither, writing fanciful calligraphy, and writing and reciting of poetry ).

During the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 AD ), it was recorded in 1393 that an annual supply of 720, 000 sheets of toilet paper ( two by three feet in size ) were produced for the general use of the imperial court at the capital of Nanjing.

During this period of confusion, Vice President Feng Guozhang, also a Beiyang general, assumed the post of Acting President of the republic and took his oath of office in Nanjing.

During its existence, its capital was at Jianye ( 建業 ; present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu ), but at times it was also at Wuchang ( 武昌 ; present-day Ezhou, Hubei ).

During the Qing Dynasty Nanjing lost its status of the " second capital ", and Southern Zhili was reconstituted as a regular province, Jiangnan, while Northern Zhili was renamed Zhili Province.

During the Long March, Ye assisted Liu Bocheng in directing the crossing of the Yangtze River at Anshunchang and Luding Bridge, and became director of the offices that liaised with the KMT after 1936, first in Xi ' an, then in Nanjing and finally in Chongqing.

During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing.

During the Northern Expedition, troops of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army attacked several foreign consulates in a fervor of anti-imperialism in what became known as the Nanjing Incident of March 1927.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Jianye ( modern-day Nanjing ) was the capital of the Kingdom of Wu.

During the last years of the Yuan Dynasty Jiangnan was fought for by two major rebel states: Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming, based in Nanjing, and the Suzhou-centered Wu led by Zhang Shicheng.

During the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, the rebel Taiping state occupied much of Jiangnan and eventually made Nanjing its capital.

* December 2008: During underground excavation along Nanjing East Road, Section 3, underground support ( anchors ) for several nearby buildings were discovered.

During that time he became a famed boxer, and it was claimed that " from Nanjing to Beijing, all Fanzi under heaven belongs to Li Gong ( Grandmaster Li )".

During the Battle of Nanjing in the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese forces captured a number of German-made SK c / 30 anti-aircraft guns from the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China.

During the 3rd TJC major conference, delegates approved the establishment of the General Assembly Board of China in Nanjing ( moved to Shanghai the following year ) and the creation of " The Holy Spirit News " newspaper bulletin.

During the Tiananmen Incident of 1976, thousands of people protested at the militia's removal of wreaths honoring Zhou in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes.

During the 1936 Xian Incident, in which Chiang was taken prisoner by his own general, Zhang Xueliang, Wang favored sending a " punitive expedition " to attack Zhang.

During the 1983 season, Martin was involved in one of the most controversial regular season games, known as the Pine Tar Incident, where umpires nullified a game-winning home run by Yankee nemesis, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, when Martin protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat.

During his reign, the political scene was dominated by regents-Cao Shuang initially ; then Sima Yi after he seized power from Cao Shuang during the Incident at Gaoping Tombs.

During the Kannō Incident, Ashikaga headship ( soryo ) ties to the new appointees did not prevent these shugo from outright rebellion towards the regime at all.

During his 8 year tenure, Fish had to contend with Cuban belligerency, the settlement of the Alabama claims, Canadian border disputes, and the Virginius Incident.

During the course of the next year, a reactionary conspiracy to organize a countercoup culminated in the " 31 March Incident ", which was put down.

* July 29-August 11 – During the Lake Khasan Incident along the border between the Soviet Union and Manchukuo, 70 fighters and 180 bombers of the Soviet Air Force conduct heavy strikes against Imperial Japanese Army positions.

* June 22 – During the Khalkhin Gol Incident, a dogfight rages for 2½ hours between 120 Imperial Japanese Army aircraft and 95 Soviet Air Force fighters.

* June 29 – During another Khalkhin Gol Incident dogfight between Soviet and Japanese aircraft, the Soviets claim to have shot down 25 Japanese planes in exchange for the loss of two Soviet aircraft.

During Half-Life, the scientists, including Gordon Freeman, at the Black Mesa Research Facility, caused an interdimensional instability known as a resonance cascade and later as the " Black Mesa Incident ".

( also see reference: Jiandao Incident ) During and after 1930s, many ethnic Koreans in the region joined and participated in the Chinese Communist Party.

" The Wuhan Incident: Local Strife and Provincial Rebellion During the Cultural Revolution ," The China Quarterly ( 1971 ), 47: pp. 413-18.

During his career he also appeared in feature films such as Yangtse Incident ( 1957 ), The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb ( 1964 ), Eye of the Needle ( 1981 ), and Cry Freedom ( 1987 ).

During that time she wrote such episodes as " Tomorrow Is Yesterday ", " Friday's Child ", " Journey to Babel ", " This Side of Paradise ", and " The Enterprise Incident ".

During the 1960s, Dee appeared in such politically charged films as Gone Are the Days and The Incident, which is recognized as helping pave the way for young African-American actors and filmmakers.

During the unsettled years at the end of the Tokugawa bakufu and Meiji restoration, Willis treated the British nationals wounded in the Namamugi Incident and the Bombardment of Kagoshima.

During the Shanghai Incident of July 1937, Adachi also gained a reputation of leading his troops from the front, where the fighting was the thickest.

* During the Shanghai Incident on February 22, 1932 Lt Robert Short ( US Army Reserve ) while piloting a Boeing 218 with Chinese markings damaged one IJN Type 13 carrier attack aircraft, killing the pilot, Lt. Kotani and wounding the observer, before he was killed in action.

During his time in that position he began the negotiations with Russia for the purchase of Alaska, and then later was involved in settling the Beresford Incident with Great Britain.

During the Nomonhan Incident in summer 1939, he commanded the First Battery, 1st Heavy Field Artillery Regiment of the Kwantung Army.

The Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders During the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods / Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident ( ERG ) is used by emergency response personnel ( such as firefighters, and police officers ) in Canada, Mexico, and the United States when responding to a transportation emergency involving hazardous materials.

During which, Qin was appointed as representative of CPC with Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying and went to Xi ' an to handle the Xi ' an Incident in 1936, and made a contribution for the establishment of United Front against Japan.

During Chiang's rule, attacks on foreigners by Kuomintang forces flared up in several incidents.

During the Northern Expedition, the Kuomintang incited anti-foreign, anti-western sentiment.

During the Northern Expedition, in 1926 in Guangxi, Muslim General Bai Chongxi led his troops in destroying Buddhist temples and smashing idols, turning the temples into schools and Kuomintang party headquarters.

During the Kuomintang Pacification of Qinghai the Muslim General Ma Bufang destroyed Tibetan Buddhist monasteries with support from the Kuomintang government.

During the Kumul Rebellion, the Kuomintang 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) crushed a separatist Uyghur First East Turkestan Republic, delivering it a fatal blow at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

During the Ili Rebellion, the Kuomintang fought against Uyghur separatists and the Soviet Union, and against Mongolia.

During the immediate postwar period, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) administration on Taiwan was repressive and extremely corrupt compared with the previous Japanese rule, leading to local discontent.

During the early period of Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang ( KMT ) rule the terms Shandi Tongbao 山地同胞 " mountain compatriots " and Pingdi Tongbao 平地同胞 " plains compatriots " were invented, to remove the presumed taint of Japanese influence and reflect the place of Taiwan's indigenous people in the Chinese Nationalist state.

During the 2000 presidential election, Lee Teng-hui arranged for Lien Chan to be nominated as Kuomintang candidate for president rather than the more popular James Soong, who bolted from the party and formed his own People First Party after both he and Lien were defeated by Chen Shui-bian in the presidential elections.

During the arrest, Shao Yuanchong (), the incumbent minister of the propaganda department of the Kuomintang, died after he was hit in his testicles while attempting to climb over a fence.

During negotiations between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang in 1945, the two parties agreed to open multiparty talks on post-World War II political reforms via a Political Consultative Conference.

During the 1937 – 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War, Peng was one of the strongest supporters of pursuing a ceasefire with the Kuomintang in order to concentrate China's collective resources on resisting the Japanese Empire.

During the immediate postwar period, the Chinese Kuomintang administration on Taiwan was inept and corrupt, while soldiers were breaking the laws.

During the early stages of the process, political parties were still banned, but independent candidates, some including those who had splintered off from the Kuomintang, were allowed to run for offices, provided that they would not receive any campaign funding from the party.

During most of Chen's second term, Kuomintang and PFP together hold a pan-Blue majority in the legislature.

During 2008, the Kuomintang won both the legislative and presidential elections.

During the Northern Expedition, in 1926 in Guangxi, Bai Chongxi led his troops in destroying Buddhist temples and smashing idols, turning the temples into schools and Kuomintang party headquarters.

During the Kuomintang government in 1925, a large portrait of Sun Yat-sen was hung at the gate after his death.

During the 2008 presidential election, Hsing Yun publicly endorsed Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou.

During the founding of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the Miao played an important role in its birth when they helped Mao Zedong to escape the Kuomintang in the Long March with supplies and guides through their territory.

During World War II when the communist base in northwestern China was blockaded by Kuomintang forces under the command of Hu Zongnan, Wang Zhen gained fame as the brigade commander of the 359th Brigade for successfully converting waste land in Nanniwan into productive farm land, and the agricultural output not only supported the brigade itself, but also with a substantial surplus to support other parts of the communist base.

During the rule of the Kuomintang party, the Kuomintang appointed the Muslim warlords of the family known as the Ma clique as the Military Governors of the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia.