• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
• Foreign Minister: Zhang Qun until March 4, then Wang Chonghui

January edit

• January 14 – Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai.
• January 19 – Hunan University was changed to National Hunan University, and the Ministry of Education appointed Pi Zongshi as the principal.^[1]
• January 28 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines, arrived in Shanghai and departed the next day.

July to December edit

• 7–9 July – Marco Polo Bridge Incident
• early July-early August – Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
• August – Operation Chahar
• August–December – Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation
• August–November – Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation
• 13 August – 26 November – Battle of Shanghai
• 1 September – 9 November – Battle of Taiyuan
• 13 September – 11 November – Battle of Xinkou
• 24 September – 25 September – Battle of Pingxingguan
• 26 October- 1 November – Defense of Sihang Warehouse

• Han Dingxiang
• Liu Caipin
• Zhou Chaochen
• Yu Xiaosong

• January 8 – Pamela Werner
• July 28 – Zhao Dengyu, Tong Linge
• October 15 – Hao Mengling
• November 21 – Gao Zhihang
• December 1 – Rao Guohua
• December 25 – Xiong Xiling

• List of Chinese films of the 1930s