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| 1925, March 12 |
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| Having learned in January of his incurable liver cancer, Sun Zhongshan died. Already the new alliance and Soviet expert help were showing signs of success in battles against the militarists. | 1 |
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| May 30 |
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| Following a lockout and demonstration of laborers at a Japanese textile mill in Shanghai, a worker was killed, leading to massive demonstrations of Chinese workers at the International Settlement. The British police fired on the demonstrators, killing 11 and wounding 20. Widespread demonstrations erupted throughout China in the May Thirtieth Movement. | 2 |
| Sentiment against the unequal treaties and against the British, for their deadly actions in Shanghai in May and against laborers in Guangzhou (June 23), found effective expression in a strike and boycott of British goods and ships which lasted 16 months in Guangzhou (until Oct. 1926). | 3 |
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| Aug. 20 |
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| Liao Zhongkai (1878–1925), GMD leader, was murdered. Antileftists within the GMD, upset at the pro-Soviet direction of the party, were suspected. Later, the right wing within the GMD formed a “Western Hills” faction aimed at ridding the party of Borodin and the Communists. | 4 |
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