Tiananmen Square protests
- Tiananmen Square protests
Tiananmen Square has been the central point for several major historical protests, with their most commonly referred to Chinese name in parentheses.
* Tiananmen Square protests of 1919 (The May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy)
* Tiananmen Square protests of 1976 (The April Fifth Tiananmen Incident)
* Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 (The June Fourth Movement, or the 1989 Movement for Democracy)
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