Marco Polo Bridge incident

When

7 Jul 1937 – 9 Jul 1937

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

39.85° N, 116.21° E

Description

1937 initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

Initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a three-day battle that began on 7 July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japanese and Chinese forces exchange fire near Beijing, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der „Zwischenfall an der Marco-Polo-Brücke“ in Peking – eine von Japan provozierte Schießerei zwischen chinesischen und japanischen Soldaten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident du pont Marco Polo, point de départ de la seconde guerre sino-japonaise”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “инцидент у моста Лугоуцяо, вторжение японских войск в Китай, начало японо-китайской войны (1937—1945)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “cerca de Pekín sucede el Incidente del Puente de Marco Polo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “蘆溝橋事變爆發；日軍在蘆溝橋附近演習，夜11時藉口搜查失縱哨兵，突砲轟宛平城；國軍第二十九軍第三十七師馮治安部吉星文團奮起抵抗，雙方互有傷亡”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “盧溝橋事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Second Sino-Japanese War7 Jul 1937 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000,000