715 Incident

When

15 Jul 1927

Kind

Coup

Coordinates

39.90° N, 116.41° E

Description

event in which Wuhan Government leader Wang Jingwei ordered a purge of Communists in July 1927

July 1927 purge of communists in Wuhan

The July 15 Incident, known by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the July 15 counter-revolutionary coup, and as the Wuhan–Communist split by the Kuomintang (KMT), occurred on 15 July 1927. Following growing strains in the First United Front between the KMT government in Wuhan and the Chinese Communist Party, and under pressure from the rival nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, Wuhan leader Wa…

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