Timeline Friday 28 February 1947

Events on Friday 28 February 1947 1

• 1947 February 28 Incident Uprising in Taiwan is violently suppressed A confrontation over contraband cigarettes in Taipei on 27 February 1947 set off an island-wide uprising against the Kuomintang administration on 28 February. Nationalist troops sent from the mainland crushed it in March, killing thousands of people. The massacre was followed by decades of martial law.