Lastly, Yuan's use of violence ( such as Song's assassination ) dashed the Kuomintang's hope of achieving reforms and political goals through electoral means.

He became disillusioned after seeing Chiang's officers starve their troops and by the Kuomintang's corruption.

One common belief from the pro-blue camp in Taiwan is that Lee Teng-hui favored the unpopular Vice President Lien Chan over the highly popular Soong in a deliberate effort to sabotage the Kuomintang and was secretly supporting Chen, despite the fact that Lee is supposed to favor Kuomintang's own nominee Lien.

** Though more popular and consistently ranked higher in the polls, James Soong failed to gain the ruling Kuomintang's ( KMT ) nomination over incumbent Vice President Lien Chan.

The Kuomintang's revolutionary ideology in the 1920s incorporated unique Chinese Socialism as part of its ideology.

Acting on these ideas, the Communist International became less revolutionary and more willing to compromise with " reactionary " forces, for example by advising its Chinese section to back the Kuomintang's efforts to unify China.

He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy, and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925.

The Kuomintang's alliance with the Green Gang allowed it to ignore the borders of the foreign concessions.

Military and political classes on the Kuomintang's Three principles of the people were added.

As a result, he was subsequently appointed to the leadership of the Kuomintang's Peasant Training Institute, also becoming the Director of the Party's Propaganda Department.

* May 3 – Jinan Incident, an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan, China.

The 2000 presidential election marked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party.

300 " Khampa bandits " were enlisted into the Kuomintang's Consolatory Commission military in Sichuan, where they were part of the effort of the central government of China to penetrate and destabilize the local Han warlords such as Liu Wenhui.

300 " Khampa bandits " were enlisted into the Kuomintang's Consolatory Commission military in Sichuan, where they were part of the effort of the central government of China to penetrated and destabilize the local Han warlords such as Liu Wenhui.

Finally, Yuan had himself elected president to a five-year term, publicly labelled the Kuomintang a seditious organization, ordered the Kuomintang's dissolution, and evicted all members from Parliament.

When the Republic of China government was relocated to Taipei in 1949 as a result of the Kuomintang's ( KMT ) defeat by the Chinese Communist Party forces in the Chinese Civil War, the provincial administration remained in place under the claim that the ROC was still the government of all of China even though the opposition argued that it overlapped inefficiently with the national government.

Military and political classes on the Kuomintang's Three principles of the people were added.

In 1937 it was created the Revolutionary Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee ( 中共中央革命军事委员会, Zhōng ​ gòng ​ zhōng ​ yāng Gé ​ mìng ​ jūnshì Wěi ​ yuán ​ huì ) after the Chinese Soviet Republic's armed forces were integrated into the Kuomintang's army for the anti-Japanese war, and it later evolved into the Central Military Commission after the Party's 7th Congress in 1945.

A series of political, economic and military missteps led to the Kuomintang's defeat and its retreat to Taiwan in 1949, where it established an authoritarian one-party state that considered itself to be the sole legitimate ruler of all of China.

On the other hand, political freedom was considerably curtailed because of the Kuomintang's one-party domination through " political tutelage " and often violent means in shutting down anti-government protests.

The 2000 presidential election marked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party.

Though more popular and consistently ranked higher in the polls, the outspoken former Taiwan Governor James Soong failed to gain the Kuomintang's nomination.

They were, however, unable to hold back the advance of the Kuomintang's Jiangxi units and lost Ninggang and two neighbouring counties.

It opposed the Kuomintang's political monopoly in the Republic of China government.

Becoming a major general at age 28, he later became member of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee, mayor of Shanghai and president of Tongji University, governor of Hubei province and foreign minister.

His last official position was chairman of the Presidium of the Kuomintang's Central Advisory Committee. Pope Paul VI receives Special Envoy Chang in 1965

* Revolution of 1930: Second military overthrow of government, in which President Washington Luís was replaced by Getúlio Vargas, who became the Provisional President.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

After the takeover of the Republican government by Yuan Shikai and the failed Second Revolution in 1913, Chiang, like his KMT comrades, divided time between exile in Japan and the havens of the Shanghai International Settlement.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

* 1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

The First Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electrical power generation.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

Here, Goebbels discovered his talent as a propagandist, writing such tracts as 1926's The Second Revolution and Lenin or Hitler.

* 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, as well as in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of the regime that won the war, Hitler, Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression ( backed by the USSR ) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Second Spanish Republic itself.

The June Days Uprising during the Second Republic was an attempt by the left to assert itself after the 1848 Revolution, but only a small portion of the population supported this.

* Brush, Stephen G., The History of Modern Science: A Guide to the Second Scientific Revolution, 1800 – 1950, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1988

Traditional conflict of law rules were widely perceived as too rigid and unresponsive to the needs of a highly mobile society undergoing the Second Industrial Revolution.

In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.

In 1889, on the centennial of the French Revolution of 1789, the Second International was founded, with 384 delegates from 20 countries representing about 300 labour and socialist organisations.

" Technology " rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution.

French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine L ' Observateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed priests and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively.

The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government lasting since the Revolution of 1848.

They occurred at the core period of the Second Industrial Revolution.

* January 2 – American Revolution – Second Battle of Trenton: George Washington's army fights the Second Battle of Trenton, New Jersey.

* October 7 – American Revolution – Second Battle of Saratoga: Battle of Bemis Heights: British General John Burgoyne is defeated by American troops.

* March 23 – American Revolution: Patrick Henry, a delegate to the Second Virginia Convention after the Virginia House of Burgesses was disbanded by the Royal Governor, delivers his " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!