Original: The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , also known as the Tiananmen Square massacre and the June Fourth Incident ( in part to avoid confusion with two prior Tiananmen Square protests ) , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) beginning on 15 April 1989 .
Simplified: The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 is the name for a series of protests that occurred in April and June of that year . China refers to them as the June Fourth Incident , most of the world calls it the Tiananmen Square massacre .