* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

In a pairing of great political significance, Chiang was Sun's brother-in-law: he had married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, Sun's widow, on December 1, 1927.

Shanghai capitalists did briefly support him out of fear of communism in 1927, but this support eroded in 1928, when Chiang turned his tactics of intimidation on them.

For some, Chiang was a national hero who led the victorious Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Warlords in 1927, achieving Chinese unification, and who subsequently led China to ultimate victory against Japan in 1945.

Chiang also crushed and dominated the merchants of Shanghai in 1927, seizing loans from them, with the threats of death or exile.

After being attacked by a warlord friendly to Chiang, Wang's leftist government disintegrated later in May 1927, and Chiang's troops began an organized purge of Communists in territories formerly controlled by Wang.

The Communist Party of China ( CCP ), founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu with Soviet support, initially collaborated with the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ( KMT ), founded by the revolutionary republican Sun Yat-sen. After the unexpected death of Sun in March 1925, a power struggle within the KMT favored Chiang Kai-shek, whose Northern Expedition forces succeeded in wresting control of large areas of China from local warlords, establishing a unified government in Nanjing in April 1927.

This initial period of cooperation to unify China and end the unequal treaties broke up in April 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek struck out against the Communists.

In April 1927, however, Chiang Kai-Shek purged the KMT leftists and Communists from the Central Government and expelled his Soviet advisers.

In 1927 Wuhan became the seat of a government established by left-wing elements of the Kuomintang, led by Wang Jingwei ; this government was later merged into Chiang Kai-shek's government in Nanjing.

In 1927 Chiang Kai-shek married Soong May-ling, a sister of Sun's widow Soong Ching-ling, and subsequently he could claim to be a brother-in-law of Sun.

* 1927 to 1932: Leading Communist forces participating in the Northern Expedition, conflict with Chiang Kai-shek leading to the April 12 Incident and massacre of Communists, conflict with Comintern leading to expulsion from Communist Party.

In early 1927, shortly before Chiang captured Shanghai and moved the capital to Nanjing, Wang's faction declared the capital of the Republic to be Wuhan.

Chiang Kai-shek occupied Shanghai in April 1927, and began a bloody suppression of suspected communists known as the " White Terror ".

Jiangsu changed hands several times, but in April 1927 Chiang Kai-Shek established a government at Nanjing ; he was soon able to bring most of China under his control.

In March 1927, during the Nanjing Incident, he refused to agree to an ultimatum prepared by other foreign powers threatening retaliation for the actions of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang troops for their attacks on foreign consulates and settlements.

His was one of the few Nationalist units free from serious Communist influence and was therefore employed by Chiang Kai-shek for the Shanghai Massacre of 1927.

Despite the superficial unification of China in 1927 under the rule of the Kuomintang ( KMT ) under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, warlordism remained a problem until the victory of the Communist Party of China in 1949.

His was one of the few Nationalist units free from serious Communist influence and was therefore employed by Chiang Kai-shek in the Shanghai Massacre of 1927.

However, Chiang quickly reversed the tables in the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by massacring the Communist party in Shanghai midway in the Northern Expedition.

In 1927, Wang Jingwei attempted to establish a left-leaning Kuomintang government in Wuhan that threatened Chiang Kai-shek's leadership.

They supported Chiang Kai-shek's purge of the communists in 1927.

After Chiang Kai-shek turned against the CPC in 1927, Chen fled to his hometown, but soon returned to Shanghai and secretly continued his work as a labor unionist.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

Fulham's first season in Division Two turned out to be the highest that the club would finish for twenty-one years, until in 1927 – 28 when the club were relegated to the 3rd Division South, created in 1920.

After composing music for the Diaghilev-produced ballets Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ), Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism, a development culminating in his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex ( 1927 ).

In 1927, King Oliver turned down a regular booking for his group as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club ; the offer passed to Ellington.

However, in what came to be known as the " Tidworth Incident ", he turned down the command of the Experimental Mechanized Force which was formed in 1927.

On 1 January 1927, he turned out for the NSW second team.

The designation, assigned as part of the 1927 state highway renumbering covered the current alignments of most of U. S. Route 1 from Trenton ( including its business loop ) to where Route 26 turned onto Livingston Avenue.

In 1927, this flirtation with socialism turned more radical when he signed on as active member of the Japan Communist Party.

In 1927 an important chapter in Suzuki's life was turned.

A series of searches turned up a few more individuals over the next decade, but the last confirmed sighting was on 14 September 1927.

He opposed calls from his own party to promote government-developed hydroelectricity projects, and viewed the provincially owned railways as a burden to the government, though they finally turned a profit in 1927.

There he struck up a what turned out to be a lifelong friendship with Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, who frequently mentions him in his book, American Songbag ( 1927 ).

O ’ Dwyer supported his opinion by asserting that Beach became a " politician " who was " rarely missing an opportunity to mingle with the Wright tide that had turned against Whitehead, notably after Whitehead's death in 1927.

In 1927 the Kuomintang had turned on the Chinese communists, which led to a review of the policy on forming alliances with the national bourgeoisie in the colonial countries.

The Shanghai massacre of 1927 and the Night of the Long Knives of 1934, in which the leader of a political party turned against and liquidated a particular section or group within the party, are commonly called " purges " while mass expulsions on grounds of ethnic unreliability, such as the Crimean Tatars and the Japanese-American internment are not.

In 1927 Joynson-Hicks turned his fire on the proposed new version of the Book of Common Prayer.

The cast stayed in the same hotel at Mountain Lake Resort in Pembroke, Virginia, and also at the 1927 Lake Lure Inn & Spa in Lake Lure, N. C. Rehearsals quickly turned into disco parties involving nearly every cast member, even non-dancers such as Jack Weston.

The railroad tunnel was ' holed ' through on July 7, 1927, and formally turned over completed to the D & SL on February 26, 1928.

In 1931, in need of money, he turned professional and joined the fledgling pro tour, which had begun only in 1927.

Sheet music for Irene ( musical ) | IreneHarry Austin Tierney ( May 21, 1890 – March 22, 1965 ) was a successful American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene ( 1919 ), Broadway's longest-running show of the era ( 620 performances ), Kid Boots ( 1923 ) and Rio Rita ( 1927 ), one of the first musicals to be turned into a talking picture ( and later remade starring Abbott and Costello ).

* Günter Guillaume ( 1927 – 1995 ), a close aide to West German chancellor Willy Brandt who turned out to be a spy for East Germany's secret service