200 BC China united under Chin (Qin) dynasty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1842 Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1851-1864 “Taiping Rebellion\u201d Suppressed by Manchus with help from the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1881 Danielle and Hans born in Bremnes, Finaas, Norway (Island near Bergen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1898-1909 Hans to US, carpenter, Great Lakes Seaman, college and seminary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1899 US \u201cOpen Door\u201d policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1900 Boxer anti-foreign rebellion<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1902 Missionary interests buy large tract on Kikung for summer retreat<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1909 \u201cSister\u201dDanielle accepts Norwegian Missionary Society call to China as a nurse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1909 Hans accepts call to China from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1911 Manchu Dynasty overthrown<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1913 Hans and Danielle meet on Jigong after 11 years separation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1913 Hans and Danielle married on Jigong — build Suiping mission 1913-1918<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1914 ASK \u201cAmerican School Kikungshan\u201d established as school for missionary children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1915 Gerhard Nesse born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1917 Henry Nesse born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1922 Arthur Nesse born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1927 Foreigners evacuated China and Chiang took unified China under \u201cKuomingtang\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nesse family to US via Russia and Norway. Return to China in fall of 1928<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1931 Japan takes over Manchuria<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1932 Danielle dies in Xinyang, buried on Jigong. Summer trip to US. Gerhard and Henry<\/strong> stay in US. Art returns to schol at at ASK on Kuling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1934-1945 \u201cLong March\u201d Communists retreat from South China to remote Shanxi<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1937 Japan-China war starts — continues through end of WW II 1945<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1941 Pearl Harbor<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1942-1945 Hans \u201cinterned\u201d by Japanese in Wuhan. Returns to US in 1946.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1948 Hans returns to China and resumes work in Xinyang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1945-1949 Communists defeat Nationalists who retreat to Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1951 Hans expelled by Communists, dies in Norway enroute from China to US<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1951-1953 Communists purge propertied classes, 5-10 million killed, redistribute land to peasants<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1957-1958 \u201cGreat Leap Forward\u201d farm collectivization and industrialization, 20 million starve<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1966- 1969 \u201cCultural Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1972 Nixon visits China to initiate cultural, diplomatic and business relations<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1976 Mao and Chou die<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1979 China-US relations \u201cnormalized\u201d. Pinyin replaced Wade Giles for English-Chinese<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1980 Deng becomes China\u2019s premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 200 BC China united under Chin (Qin) dynasty 1842 Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War 1851-1864 “Taiping Rebellion\u201d Suppressed by Manchus with help from the west. 1881 Danielle and Hans born in Bremnes, Finaas, Norway (Island near Bergen 1898-1909 Hans to US, carpenter, Great Lakes Seaman, college and seminary 1899 US \u201cOpen Door\u201d policy 1900… Continue reading Danielle’s Chronology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}