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Events in the year 1928 in China.

Incumbents

• President – Zhang Zuolin, Tan Yankai, Chiang Kai-shek
• Premier – Pan Fu, Tan Yankai
• Vice Premier – Feng Yuxiang

Events

February

• 7 February – Tan Yankai became the first Chairman of the Nationalist Government.

March

• 26 March – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).

April

• 30 April – Beiyang government troops withdrew from Jinan.

May

• 3 May – Jinan Incident, an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

June

• 4 June – Huanggutun Incident (Japanese assassination of the Chinese head of state Generalissimo Zhang Zuolin).^[6]

July

• 1 July – Zhang Xueliang announced an armistice with the Kuomintang and proclaimed that he would not interfere with the re-unification.
• 3 July – Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Beijing and met the representative from the Fengtian clique to discuss a peaceful settlement.
• 8 July – Looting of the Eastern Mausoleum.
• 25 July – The United States recalls its troops from China.

October

• 8 October – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission) of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China.

December

• 29 December – Chinese reunification.^[7]

Births

• 1 August – Shen Daren, Chinese politician (d. 2017)
• 18 August – John Liu Shi-gong, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
• 20 October – Li Peng
• Sun Shenlu
• Zhao Baotong

Deaths

• 30 March – Xia Minghan
• 3 May – Cai Gongshi
• 3 June – Li Yuanhong
• 4 June – Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng
• 14 October – Chen Jue