Yunnan timeline
| 4th century BCE onwards | Dian kingdom, around the centre of today’s Yunnan province |
| 2nd century BCE | Interest in trade through Yunnan fromHan emperor Wudi (140–87 BCE) |
| Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) | Nanzhao kingdom rules over today’sYunnan |
| Song dynasty (960–1279 CE) | Dali kingdom succeeds Nanzhao |
| 1253 | Conquest leads to incorporation ofDali’s territory into the Mongol empire(Yuan dynasty in China) |
| 1274 | Formation of administrative province of Yunnan |
| Ming dynasty (1368–1644) | Further consolidation into the empire |
| Qing dynasty (1644–1911) | Growing Qing interest in Yunnan, motivated partly by natural resources |
| 1856–1873 | The ‘Panthay’ Rebellion in Yunnan |
| 1870s onwards | European incursions into Yunnan, and beginnings of industrialisation |
| 1903–1910 | Construction of French-built railway from Hanoi to Kunming |
| 1909 | Establishment of military academy in Kunming contributes to 1911–1912 Xinhai revolution which established the Republic of China |
| 1938–1946 | Yunnan plays an important role in supplying the wartime Chinese government in Chongqing |
| 1942 | Japanese occupation of Burma leads to incursions into western Yunnan |
| December 1949 | Yunnan falls peacefully to the Chinese Communist Party |
| March 1950 | People’s Liberation Army’s Second Field Army enters Yunnan |
| 1950s | Han migration into Yunnan, land reform in ethnic minority areas not completed until 1958 |
| 1964–1971 | Third Front programme brings some heavy industry to Yunnan |
| 1966, 1970 | Opening of Kunming-Guiyang and Kunming-Chengdu railways (respectively) |
| 1979 | New provincial leadership following Deng Xiaoping’s ‘reform and opening up’ policies of December 1978 |
| 1992 | Yunnan included in new round of China’s ‘opening up’ |
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