Historical Timeline

A source-controlled chronology of pro-democracy activity, political reform, repression, organization-building and public memory from the 1976 April Fifth Movement to the present.

• 1976 April Fifth Movement
• 1978–1979 Democracy Wall
• 1986 Student Movement
• 1989 Democracy Movement
• 1990s movement and organizations
• 2000–2009
• 2010–2019
• 2020–present

Event pages will distinguish contemporaneous evidence, later recollection, disputed interpretation and editorial synthesis.