The Internationale/Timeline

The following events are divided by countries and areas speaking different languages.

Year	French-related event	Russian-related event	English-related event	Chinese-related event
1816	Eugène Pottier (dies in 1887) is born.
1848	Pierre De Geyter (dies in 1932) is born.
1860			Charles Hope Kerr (dies in 1944) is born.
1871	Eugène Pottier writes in June the original French words of The Internationale, to be sung to the tune of La Marseillaise.
1872		Arkady Yakovlevich Kots (dies in 1943) is born.
1887	Eugène Pottier (born in 1816) dies.
1888	Pierre De Geyter sets the music of The Internationale, which is first publicly performed in July.
1896				Xiao San (dies in 1983) is born.
1899				Qu Qiubai (dies in 1935) is born.
1900			Charles Hope Kerr makes the USA lyrics.
1902		Arkady Yakovlevich Kots makes the initial Russian translation.
1904	Pierre De Geyter's brother Adolphe is induced by the Lille mayor Gustave Delory to claim copyright.
1908				Shen Baoji (dies in 2002) is born.
1914	Pierre De Geyter loses the first copyright lawsuit.
1916	Adolphe De Geyter hangs himself and confesses the false copyright claim in a letter to Pierre.
1918		The Russian SFSR adopts The Internationale as the national anthem.
1922	Pierre De Geyter wins the copyright lawsuit with the letter from Adolphe as new evidence.	The Soviet Union adopts The Internationale as the de facto national anthem.
1923				Qu Qiubai translates on June 15 The Internationale from Russian to Chinese. Xiao San also translates The Internationale from Russian to Chinese.
1926				The National Revolutionary Army of China prints on March 18 a music sheet with three lyrics of The Internationale in Chinese.
1927		Pierre De Geyter is invited to Moscow, Soviet Russia for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, as the Soviet leaders discover his real authorship.
1931				The Chinese Soviet Republic decides its national anthem to be The Internationale.
1932	Pierre De Geyter (born in 1848) dies.
1935				Qu Qiubai (born in 1899) is executed by Kuomintang.
1943		Arkady Yakovlevich Kots (born in 1872) dies.
1944		The Soviet Union changes its national anthem from The Internationale to Hymn of the Soviet Union.	Charles Hope Kerr (born in 1860) dies.
1949				The People's Republic of China is founded on October 1. The Government of the Republic of China, losing the Chinese Civil War, moves its national capital to Taipei, Taiwan. Around this time, the Internationale becomes politically banned in Taiwan.
1957			Billy Bragg (living) is born.	Shen Baoji makes a complete Chinese translation of The Internationale from French.
1983				Xiao San (born in 1896) dies.
1989				In the People's Republic of China, protesters sing The Internationale in the Tiananmen Square protests.
1990			Billy Bragg composes the modern English lyrics of The Internationale.
2000				President Lee Teng-hui's Administration of Taiwan, Republic of China leaves office as the term expires on May 20. Around this time, the Internationale is no longer politically banned in Taiwan.
2002				Shen Baoji (born in 1908) dies.
2005	Le Chant du Monde administering the copyright asks Pierre Merejkowsky, the film director and an actor of Insurrection / résurrection, to pay 1000 euro for whistling The Internationale for seven seconds.
2007	The French Supreme Court confirms in February that the musical copyright extensions for both world wars is in addition to life plus 70 years until year end, based on a 1985 law.
2008			Billy Bragg's modern English version has a copyright permission logged at Wikimedia OTRS, but not compatible with GFDL as commercial use is limited.
2017	The Internationale melody enters the public domain in France in October through copyright expiration.