April 26—July 21, 1954: Geneva Conference

China participated in the Geneva conference the first time as one of the top five countries to discuss the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula and restore peace in Indochina.

April 26, 1996: An agreement on strengthening military trust in border areas is signed in Shanghai by the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz and Tajikistan

April 26, 1997: Peng Zhen dies in Beijing at the age of 95

Peng was praised as a great proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding statesman, a committed Marxist, a principal founder of China's socialist legal system, a snappy dresser, and an outstanding leader of the party and the country.

April 26, 2009: Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin and the Taiwan Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung hold talks in Nanjing