Danielle’s Chronology

200 BC China united under Chin (Qin) dynasty

1842 Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War

1851-1864 “Taiping Rebellion” 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 “Open Door” policy

1900 Boxer anti-foreign rebellion

1902 Missionary interests buy large tract on Kikung for summer retreat

1909 “Sister”Danielle accepts Norwegian Missionary Society call to China as a nurse

1909 Hans accepts call to China from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America

1911 Manchu Dynasty overthrown

1913 Hans and Danielle meet on Jigong after 11 years separation

1913 Hans and Danielle married on Jigong — build Suiping mission 1913-1918

1914 ASK “American School Kikungshan” established as school for missionary children

1915 Gerhard Nesse born

1917 Henry Nesse born

1922 Arthur Nesse born

1927 Foreigners evacuated China and Chiang took unified China under “Kuomingtang”

Nesse family to US via Russia and Norway. Return to China in fall of 1928

1931 Japan takes over Manchuria

1932 Danielle dies in Xinyang, buried on Jigong. Summer trip to US. Gerhard and Henry stay in US. Art returns to schol at at ASK on Kuling.

1934-1945 “Long March” Communists retreat from South China to remote Shanxi

1937 Japan-China war starts — continues through end of WW II 1945

1941 Pearl Harbor

1942-1945 Hans “interned” by Japanese in Wuhan. Returns to US in 1946.

1948 Hans returns to China and resumes work in Xinyang

1945-1949 Communists defeat Nationalists who retreat to Taiwan

1951 Hans expelled by Communists, dies in Norway enroute from China to US

1951-1953 Communists purge propertied classes, 5-10 million killed, redistribute land to peasants

1957-1958 “Great Leap Forward” farm collectivization and industrialization, 20 million starve

1966- 1969 “Cultural Revolution”

1972 Nixon visits China to initiate cultural, diplomatic and business relations

1976 Mao and Chou die

1979 China-US relations “normalized”. Pinyin replaced Wade Giles for English-Chinese

1980 Deng becomes China’s premiere