July 15 Incident
EVENT IN WHICH WUHAN GOVERNMENT LEADER WANG JINGWEI ORDERED A PURGE OF COMMUNISTS IN JULY 1927
Wuhan coup; 715 Incident
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 coalition between the KMT government in Wuhan and the CCP, and under pressure from the rival nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, Wuhan leader Wang Jingwei ordered a purge of communists from his government in July 1927.