Timeline of Hong Kong history

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The following is a timeline of the history of Hong Kong.

Contents

[edit] Imperial China Era

Date Ruling Entity Events Other people/events
221 BC Qin Dynasty First records of the territory in Chinese history
206 BC Han Dynasty Inhabitants in Ma Wan Island
25 AD Tang Dynasty Building of Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb (est.)
901 AD Punti settlement
1075 Song Dynasty Founding of Li Ying College
1163 Salt fields in Hong Kong first officially managed
1277 China's Imperial court found refuge in Silvermine Bay on Lantau Island during the Battle of Yamen
1513 Ming Dynasty Jorge Álvares arrives in Tuen Mun
1685 Qing Dynasty Kangxi Emperor opens limited trade on a regular basis starting with Canton
1757 British East India Company pursued a monopoly on opium production beginning with India in the far east
1793 Anglo-Chinese relations
1818

[edit] Colonial Hong Kong

[edit] Qing Dynasty

Date Emperor Events Other people/events
1839 Daoguang Emperor First Opium War

[edit] British Crown Colony

Date HK Governor Events Other people/events
1841 Charles Elliot Convention of Chuenpeh
1842 Henry Pottinger
(First HK Governor)		 Treaty of Nanking
1843 Formation of the Legislative Council and Executive Council

Ying Wa College, world's first Anglo-Chinese school relocated to HK
1844
1847 John Francis Davis Building of Kowloon Walled city
1848
1851 Sir George Bonham Taiping Rebellion
1853 Chinese serial
1854
1855 John Bowring First proposal of Praya Reclamation Scheme
1856 Second Opium War
1859 Hercules Robinson
1860 Convention of Peking,
British rules Kowloon south of Boundary st
1861 British acquired Kowloon Peninsula Frederick Stewart modernize HK education
1865 Establishment of HK Shanghai Bank
1866 Richard Graves MacDonnell
1872 Tung Wah Hospital established
1877 Arthur Edward Kennedy
1882 John Pope Hennessy
1883 George Ferguson Bowen
1887 George William Des Vœux Western medical science reaches Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese
1888 Founding of Peak Tram
1891 William Robinson
1894 Third Pandemic of Bubonic Plague
1898 Second Convention of Peking,
British rules New Territories and New Kowloon
1904 Henry Arthur Blake Peak Reservation Ordinance
1907 Matthew Nathan
1912 Frederick Lugard Establishment of the Republic of China,
Qing Dynasty overthrown
1919 Francis Henry May
1921 Praya East Reclamation Scheme
1923 Reginald Edward Stubbs Sun Yat-sen proclaimed his anti-corruption revolutionary ideas came from Hong Kong during HK university speech
1924 Land allocation for Kai Tak Airport
1925
1926 Cecil Clementi First Chinese member appointed to Executive Council
1928 First pre-RTHK radio broadcast
1930 William Peel
1933 Founding of Kowloon Motor Bus
1935 Andrew Caldecott
1937 Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937

[edit] Japan

Date HK Governor Events Other people/events
1941 Geoffrey Northcote,
Mark Aitchison Young		 Japan begins the 3 years and 8 months occupation,
Battle of Hong Kong		 Pearl Harbor incident,
US enters World War II
1942 Isogai Rensuke
1945 Hisaichi Tanaka End of Japanese Occupation US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
World War II ends,
United Nations formed
1946 Mark Aitchison Young

[edit] British Crown Colony

Date HK Governor Events Other people/events
1947 First government count of Hong Kong Taxi
1948 Alexander Grantham HK Social Welfare Department formed
1949 Establishment of People's Republic of China
1953 Shek Kip Mei fire
1956 Hong Kong 1956 riots
1957 Rediffusion Television, first subscription TV station Asian Flu
1958 Robert Brown Black
1960 Four asian tigers (est.)
1964
1966 David Clive Crosbie Trench Hong Kong 1966 riots Cultural Revolution in China
1967 Hong Kong 1967 riots, TVB made first over-the-air TV broadcast
1968 Hong Kong flu
1971 6-year free Primary education funded
1972 PRC request HK and Macau off United Nations list
1976 Murray MacLehose Home Ownership Scheme introduced
1978 Chinese Economic Reform begins in China
1979 Establishment of Mass Transit Railway
1980 PRC United Front strategy (est.)
1982 Edward Youde
1983 Black Saturday
1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the proposal of One country, two systems
1987 David Wilson Black Monday
1990 Basic Law proclaimed
1992 United States-Hong Kong Policy Act

[edit] People's Republic of China

Date HK Chief Executive Events Other people/events
1997 Chris Patten Hong Kong transferred to the People's Republic of China, first Special Administrative Region government formed.

Tsing Ma Bridge opened.

Beginning of mass poultry disposal as part of Bird Flu crisis		 Asian Financial Crisis
1998 Tung Chee Hwa Kai Tak International Airport replaced by Hong Kong International Airport
1999 Right of Abode

Hello Kitty murder
2001
2003 SARS outbreak,
Demonstration against Article 23
2005 Donald Tsang WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference
2007 Anson Chan vs Regina Ip in HK Island by-election
2008 Edison Chen photo scandal HK holds 2008 Olympics Equestrian event

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