The September 18th Incident refers to a pivotal event in Chinese history that occurred on September 18, 1931. This incident marked the beginning of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, a region in northeastern China.
On that day, Japanese militants, allegedly without orders from the Japanese government, blew up a section of the South Manchurian Railway near Mukden (now Shenyang). They used the incident as a pretext to launch a military invasion


