1976 Tiananmen incident information

1976 Tiananmen incident
1976 Tiananmen incident
Simplified Chinese	四五天安门事件
Traditional Chinese	四五天安門事件
Literal meaning	5 April Tian'anmen incident
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	sìwǔ Tiān'ānmén shìjiàn
Wade–Giles	ssu4 T'ien1-an1-men4 shih4-chien4
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	sei3ng5 Tin1ngon1mun4 si6gin6

Tiananmen incident
Tiananmen incident
Part of the Cultural Revolution
	Crowds of mourners gathering in Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976
Date	April 4–5, 1976
Location	Tiananmen Square
Caused by	Death of Zhou Enlai; Discontent with the Cultural Revolution
Parties
People's Liberation Army; Militia Groups	Mourners ; Protestors
Lead figures
	Jiang Qing; Hua Guofeng No centralized leadership
Number
Unknown	100,000
Casualties
Death(s)	Unknown
Arrested	40

The Tiananmen incident or the April 5 Tiananmen incident (Chinese: 四五天安门事件) was a mass gathering and protest that took place on April 4–5, 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The incident occurred on the traditional day of mourning, the Qingming Festival, after the Nanjing incident, and was triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai earlier that year. Some people strongly disapproved of the removal of the displays of mourning, and began gathering in the Square to protest against the central authorities, then largely under the auspices of the Gang of Four, who ordered the Square to be cleared.

The event was labeled "counterrevolutionary" immediately after its occurrence by the Communist Party's Central Committee and served as a gateway to the dismissal and house arrest of then–Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, who was accused of planning the event, while he insisted that he was nearby only for a haircut.^[1] The Central Committee's decision on the event was reversed after the Cultural Revolution ended, as it would later be officially hailed as a display of patriotism.

^ Teiwes, Frederick C.; Sun, Warren (2007). The end of the Maoist era : Chinese politics during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972–1976. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. p. 490. ISBN 978-0765621993. OCLC 568038301.

[1] Teiwes, Frederick C.; Sun, Warren (2007). The end of the Maoist era : Chinese politics during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972–1976. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. p. 490. ISBN 978-0765621993. OCLC 568038301.

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