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200  BC    China united under Chin  (Qin) dynasty 
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1842       Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War 
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1851-1864  "Taiping Rebellion”  Suppressed by Manchus with help from the west. 
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1881      Danielle and Hans born in Bremnes, Finaas, Norway (Island near Bergen)Were school classmates
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1898-1909  Hans to US, carpenter, Great Lakes Seaman, college and seminary 
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1898Hans Immigrated to US at age 16 to Chicago, ILThere was no work for him in Norway
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~ 1889-1904Worked as a carpenterPaul Ekle was a Norwegian man who befriended Hans. Paul was a carpenter
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~ 1898-1904
Worked as a steward in the Great Lakes Steamer lines
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~ 1904-1906
Graduated HS Pleasant View Academy in Ottawa, IL
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~1907-1910
Attended Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN and was ordainedlisted in the 1910 census as a student
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1910Was "sponsored" by a Lutheran Church in Winnebago, IL
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1899       US “Open Door” policy 
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1900      Boxer anti-foreign rebellion 
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1902       Missionary interests buy large tract  on Kikung for summer retreat 
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1909      “Sister” Danielle accepts Norwegian Missionary Society call to China as a nurse in Yiyang (on the Yangtze River)
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1910Hans accepts call to China from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America 
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1911      Manchu Dynasty overthrown 
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1910 - 1913Hans has orientation to Chinese Language, mission Work and preaching centered in Xinyang
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1913      Hans and Danielle, without intervening contact, meet on Jigong after 11 years separation 
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1913      Hans and Danielle married on Jigong
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1913 - 1922Hans and Danielle built Suiping Mission/Church/School
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1914      ASK “American School Kikungshan” established as school for missionary children 
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1915       Gerhard Nesse born 
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1917       Henry Nesse born 
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1918Nesse Family has a furlough to US via Norway
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1922       Arthur Nesse born at Mission Hospital Kioshan, Honan
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1922 - 1924Hans no longer in charge of Suiping Mission but they still lived there
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1924Hans and Danielle moved to Xinyang
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1927       Civil War -- Foreigners evacuated China and Chiang took over and unified China under Kuomingtang” Nesse family to US via Russia and Norway.
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1928Chiang renews China’s relations with the West – Business and missionaries return
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1931       Marco Polo bridge “incident” Japan takes over Manchuria - continues conquest to south
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1932Danielle dies in Xinyang, buried on Jigong.
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1932      Summer trip to US at Hans expense.  Gerhard and Henry stay in US: school at Waldorf Academy and College, Iowa.  Art returns to school at ASK moved to Kuling because Kikung “unsafe” due to communists Gerhardt needed to be in US (for immigration purposes) before he turned 18 for citizenship
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1934-1945  “Long March”  Communists, defeated by Chiang, retreat from South China to remote Shanxi 
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1936Hans had regular furlough in Northfield, MN; GN to St. O last year, HN enters St. O: AN has 1st yr. HS at Northf'l high
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1937Art moves to North Dakota to family of uncle: Hans returns to XinyangHans now has no family living in China
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1937       Japan-China war starts – Chiang forces to Chungking, Communists to Yunnan and make phony alliance vs. Japan U.S. helps China. War become a subset of WW II continues through 1945
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1941       Pearl Harbor, China a U.S. ally
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1942-1945  Hans “interned” by Japanese in Wuhan. Writes “Under Japan’s New Order”
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1946Hans returns to US
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1947"Under Nippon's New Order" is published. Art typed and edited.
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1948      Hans returns to China and resumes work in Xinyang
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1945-1949  Communists defeat Nationalists who retreat to Taiwan 
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1951       Hans expelled by Communists – documents “negotiations” Dies in Norway en route from China to US
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1951-1953  Communists purge propertied classes, 5-10 million killed, redistribute land to peasants 
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1957-1958  “Great Leap Forward” farm collectivization and industrialization, 20 million starve 
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1966- 1969“Cultural Revolution” destroys historical artifacts, educational institutions etc.
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1972       Nixon visits China to initiate cultural, diplomatic and business relations 
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1976       Mao and Chou die 
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1979      China-US relations “normalized”.  Communists adopted a "standard language", (Mandarin) for all china. Pinyin replaced Wade Giles for English-Chinese 
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1981Deng becomes China’s premiere – begins rapprochement with Western powers.
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mid 1980s
China opens to Foreign contact and tourism
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1987Art returns to China: Visits home area
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199XXXMemorial Moongate dedication; dedicated at site of Kikung cemetery; place of Danielle's grave