Timeline Saturday 23 July 1921

Events on Saturday 23 July 1921 1

• 1921 Chinese Communist Party founded Delegates convene the party's first congress in Shanghai A small group of delegates, including Mao Zedong, held the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. The party began with only a few dozen members but would go on to rule mainland China after 1949. The meeting is now commemorated as the party's founding date.