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People:
Confucius (obviously): 551-479 BCE
Zengzi (major student of Confucius): 500 (I think)-? BCE (can probably be Googled if you need his year of death; don't recall it off the top of my head).
Xun Xi (major Confucian philosopher). Not sure of his lifespan, but he lived during the Warring States period (400s-221 BCE)
Zhu Xi (major Confucian philosopher). Lived during the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Events:
First Emporer, Qin Shi Huang, killed Confucian philosophers (among others) who protested his commands to destroy old records, but I don't remember the exact year.
Han Dynasty (202 BCE-220 BCE, but there was a multi-decade break from Han rule in the middle) accepts legalism in principle.
Earliest known copy of the Analects - 55 BCE (very fragmented)
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