Zhang Zuolin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zhang Zuolin

Chinese warlord and politician

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1875

Place of Birth: Haicheng, Liaoning, China

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1928

Profession: politician, warlord

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Zhang Zuolin (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhang Zuòlín; Wade–Giles: Chang Tso-lin) (19 March 1875 – 4 June 1928) was an influential Chinese bandit, soldier and warlord during the Warlord Era in China.
The warlord of Manchuria from 1916 to 1928, and the military dictator of the Republic of China in 1927 and 1928, he rose from banditry to power and influence, only to be thwarted by the excesses of his own ambition and his erstwhile backers, the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Backed by Japan, Zhang successfully influenced politics in the Republic of China during the early 1920s, invaded China proper in October 1924 during the Second Zhili–Fengtian War, and gained control of Peking, including the internationally recognized government, in April 1926.
His appointment as grand marshal of the Republic of China in June 1927 represented the height of his success, but was quickly followed by defeat: the economy of Manchuria, the basis of his power, was overtaxed by his adventurism and collapsed in the winter of 1927; and he was defeated by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in May 1928.
Leaving Beijing in early June to return to Manchuria, he was killed by a bomb planted by infuriated Kwantung officers on 4 June 1928; his brief reign presaged the end of Chinese warlordism by December.