Short answers, pulled from the story.
Sun Yat-sen established the Revive China Society on the 24th of November 1894 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This organization later evolved into the Kuomintang which was resurrected under its current name on the 10th of October 1919 with headquarters in Canton.
The Shanghai massacre occurred on the 12th of April 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek halted his campaign to prepare a violent break with communist allies. This event marked the expulsion of communists and their Soviet advisers from the Kuomintang and began the Chinese Civil War which lasted until 1949.
From 1949 to 1987 the Kuomintang ruled Taiwan as a one-party state following the February 28 Incident where martial law remained in effect curtailing civil liberties. Over thirty thousand Taiwanese intellectuals activists and people suspected opposing KMT suffered death or disappearance during White Terror period while democratic processes were halted.
Ma Ying-jeou took office as president of the Republic of China on the 20th of May 2008 after winning the presidential election held on the 22nd of March 2008. He won this election against DPP candidate Frank Hsieh by a margin of 17% and also secured a landslide victory in legislative elections that same year.
In July 2014 reports stated total Kuomintang assets reached NT$26.8 billion US$892.4 million with interest earnings of NT$981.52 million for the year 2013. This financial standing made it one of the richest political parties in the world before the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee was set up in August 2016 to investigate those assets.