Portal:China/Anniversaries/December/December 13

Events

• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
• 1937 – Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks worth of raping and murdering hundreds of thousands civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.

Births

• 1678 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
• 1939 – Eric Flynn, Chinese-Welsh actor and singer (d. 2002)