1937
Capital
Moves the Nationalist government’s wartime center inland toward Chongqing as Japanese armies advance.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Chungking in China. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Moves the Nationalist government’s wartime center inland toward Chongqing as Japanese armies advance.
Chunking surrenders to the Communists
The Nationalist government moves from Guangzhou to Chongqing as Communist forces capture more of southern China.
Provenance
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