18 Mar 1926
China
China
25 Jun 1926
China
China
8 Apr 1928
China
China
- Yan Xishan led Nationalist-aligned Shanxi Province troops into Beiping, China during the Northern Expedition. ww2dbase [Yan Xishan | Beiping | CPC]
6 Mar 1933
China
China
- Troops of the Chinese 620th and 621st Regiments ambushed Japanese troops near Beiping, China, slowing the advance but failing to stop it. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
7 Mar 1933
China
China
- Troops of 16th Brigade of Japanese 8th Division attacked Gubeikou Pass of the Great Wall north of Beiping, China, but the attack was repulsed by the Chinese 67th Corps. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
12 Mar 1933
China
China
- Zhang Xueliang resigned his position as the head of the Beiping Military Committee. ww2dbase [Zhang Xueliang | Beiping | CPC]
13 Mar 1933
China
China
- He Yingqin was named the head of the Beiping Military Committee. ww2dbase [He Yingqin | Beiping | CPC]
21 Mar 1933
China
China
- Japanese troops captured Yiyuankou Pass of the Great Wall near Beiping, China. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
8 Apr 1933
China
China
- The Chinese 29th Corps was evacuated from Xifengkou Pass of the Great Wall near Beiping, China. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
20 May 1933
China
China
- Chinese troops began to withdraw from all Great Wall gates near Beiping, China. ww2dbase [First Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
31 Jan 1934
China
China
- Chinese artifacts and treasures (19,557 pieces in total, packed in 6,066 crates, transported in five groups) began to be relocated from the Exhibition Office of Ancient Artifacts, the Yiheyuan, and the Hanlin Yuan Imperial Academy in the Beiping area for Shanghai due to the threat of Japanese aggression. ww2dbase [Beiping | CPC]
7 Jul 1935
China
China
- Joseph Stilwell was made a military attaché to China and Siam; he was to be based in Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | Beiping | CPC]
6 Jul 1937
China
China
- Japanese troops conducted a night-time exercise near the border of China and the Japanese-sponsored puppet nation of Manchukuo in northeastern China. The Japanese authorities failed to give the Chinese notice, thus the Chinese guards regarded the Japanese troops as invaders and fired a number of rifle shots at them. At 2300 hours, the Japanese troops fired back, but would very soon pull back. Japanese Major Kiyonao Ichiki reported one of his men was missing after the brief fire fight, suspecting that he was captured by the Chinese. Before midnight, demands for the return of the missing soldiers were being sent to Chinese military headquarters. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
7 Jul 1937
China
China
- Even though the missing Japanese soldier suspected to have been captured by the Chinese near Beiping turned up, none of the Japanese officers at the regimental level were informed. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
8 Jul 1937
China
China
- At 0330 hours, four Japanese mountain gun crews and a machine gun company were ordered to prepare for an invasion of China. At 0500 hours (still 7 Jul 1937 for the western world on the other side of the International Date Line), the Japanese opened fire, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe held a cabinet meeting in an attempt to find a solution to de-escalate the situation, but the Japanese Army was working in the opposite direction, planning to move the Japanese Chosen Army and Kwantung Army units to the contested region. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
26 Jul 1937
China
China
- A Japanese brigade, supported by aircraft, attacked the Guanghua Gate of the Beiping, China city wall. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
28 Jul 1937
China
China
- Troops of the Japanese 20th Division and three independent combined brigades, with air support, launched an offensive against Beiping, China. Discouraged, Chinese General Song Zheyuan, head of the Hebei-Chahar Political Council and the commanding officer of the 29th Route Army, announced defeat and withdrew from the city of Tianjin. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
- Zhao Dengyu was killed in battle at Nanyuan near Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Zhao Dengyu | Beiping | CPC]
4 Aug 1937
China
China
- The Chinese 29th Brigade under General Liu Ruzhen withdrew from Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
18 Aug 1937
China
China
- Japanese Army General Masakazu Kawabe entered Beiping, China and proclaimed himself the military governor of the city. ww2dbase [Lugou Bridge Incident and Second Battle of Hebei | Beiping | CPC]
1 Sep 1937
China
China
- In China, under the command of Itagaki Seishiro, Japanese 5th Division and 11th Mixed Brigade marched from Beiping toward Chahar and Shanxi Provinces. ww2dbase [Battle of Shanxi | Beiping | CPC]
28 Feb 1938
China
China
- US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. C. James organized a unit of 200 men at Beiping, China; the unit was to be deployed shortly after to relieve the US Army troops based in Tianjin, China. ww2dbase [Beiping | CPC]
23 Mar 1940
China
China
- Eiji Nishimura was named the head of Unit 1855, a Japanese Army medical unit for human experimentation, in Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Eiji Nishimura | Beiping | CPC]
19 Nov 1941
China
China
- During this month, the excavated fossils of the Peking Man were packed up at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Beiping Union Medical College, and the US Marines stationed in China, who already received orders to be withdrawn, were supposed to bring the bones back to the United States for safekeeping. During the hurried transit between Beiping and the port of Qinghuangdao, the boxes vanished, and had not been found to this day. ww2dbase [Beiping | CPC]
10 Oct 1945
China
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China
- Hiroshi Nemoto surrendered the Japanese North China Area Army at a ceremony at the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beiping, China. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Japan's Surrender | Beiping | CPC]
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18 Feb 1946
China
China
16 Mar 1946
China
China
25 Nov 1946
China
China
- The city government of Beiping, China renamed a road in honor of Zhao Dengyu. ww2dbase [Zhao Dengyu | Beiping | CPC]
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