Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937 · Event
A missing Japanese soldier — who had gone to relieve himself — leads to a firefight outside Beijing; Chiang chooses to resist and full-scale war begins.
On these timelines: China, Japan, Master, World War II
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- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
Around 1937
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)