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Imperial China
221 BCE-1841: Hong Kong is ruled by Imperial China
221 BCE: the first time Hong Kong was recorded in Chinese history. This was also the time of the Qin Dynasty.
206 BCE: inhabitants on Ma Wan Island. Then the time of the Han Dynasty.
901 AD: Punti settlement
1075: Song Dynasty
1513: Ming Dynasty. Jorge Álvarez (a Portuguese explorer) was the first to reach China by sea.
1661: Qing Dynasty. The Kangxi Emperor orders the Great Clearance, which required the evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong. Modern-day Hong Kong Island became largely wasteland during the ban.
1669: Coastal Ban is lifted
1685: Kangxi Emperor opens a limited trade between Canton and the rest of China.
1757: British East India Company monopolizes opium production beginning with India.
1793: Anglo-Chinese relations
1839: First Opium War
221 BCE-1841: Hong Kong is ruled by Imperial China
221 BCE: the first time Hong Kong was recorded in Chinese history. This was also the time of the Qin Dynasty.
206 BCE: inhabitants on Ma Wan Island. Then the time of the Han Dynasty.
901 AD: Punti settlement
1075: Song Dynasty
1513: Ming Dynasty. Jorge Álvarez (a Portuguese explorer) was the first to reach China by sea.
1661: Qing Dynasty. The Kangxi Emperor orders the Great Clearance, which required the evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong. Modern-day Hong Kong Island became largely wasteland during the ban.
1669: Coastal Ban is lifted
1685: Kangxi Emperor opens a limited trade between Canton and the rest of China.
1757: British East India Company monopolizes opium production beginning with India.
1793: Anglo-Chinese relations
1839: First Opium War
Crown British Colony
1841: Convention of Chuenpee brings the First Opium War to an end
1842: Treaty of Nanking marks the end of the Opium War
1847: the building Kowloon Walled City
1851: Taiping Rebellion
1856-1860: Second Opium War
1860: Convention of Peking is the combination of three treaties between the Qing Dynasty and the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. This resulted in the British ruling Kowloon south of Boundary Street.
1861: the British acquire the Kowloon Peninsula
1865: establishment of HK Shanghai Bank
1866: the four big families of Hong Kong are established; two of which remain to this day
1868: The Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi ordered four customs stations to be established in waterways surrounding Hong Kong and Kowloon. It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government. These stations stopped operating in 1899 after the lease of the New Territories to Britain.
1874: Hong Kong Typhoon
1887: Western medical science reaches Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese
1888: the Peak Tram is established
1894: Third Pandemic of the Bubonic Plague kills over 12 million people in China and India alone.
1898: Second Convention of Peking results in the British ruling New Territories and New Kowloon.
1906: 1906 Hong Kong Typhoon was a major natural disaster that resulted in death count that reaches 5% of Hong Kong’s population.
1908: 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon resulted in major loss of property as well as the sinking of the passenger steamer SS Ying King.
1912: Qing Dynasty is overthrown and the Republic of China is formed.
1918: Happy Valley Racecourse fire ended in over 590 deaths which now has the highest number of casualties in Hong Kong history.
1922: Seamen’s strike of 1922, 30,000 Chinese seamen from Hong Kong and Canton (now Guangdong) went on strike for higher wages.
1925: Canton-Hong Kong Strike comprised of nearly all of the inhabitants of the colony leaving and making their way to Guangdong as there were rumors of the colonial government planning to poison Hong Kong’s water supply.
1937: Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937 killed nearly 11,000 people and is one of the worst natural disasters in Hong Kong history.
1841: Convention of Chuenpee brings the First Opium War to an end
1842: Treaty of Nanking marks the end of the Opium War
1847: the building Kowloon Walled City
1851: Taiping Rebellion
1856-1860: Second Opium War
1860: Convention of Peking is the combination of three treaties between the Qing Dynasty and the United Kingdom, France, and Russia. This resulted in the British ruling Kowloon south of Boundary Street.
1861: the British acquire the Kowloon Peninsula
1865: establishment of HK Shanghai Bank
1866: the four big families of Hong Kong are established; two of which remain to this day
1868: The Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi ordered four customs stations to be established in waterways surrounding Hong Kong and Kowloon. It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government. These stations stopped operating in 1899 after the lease of the New Territories to Britain.
1874: Hong Kong Typhoon
1887: Western medical science reaches Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese
1888: the Peak Tram is established
1894: Third Pandemic of the Bubonic Plague kills over 12 million people in China and India alone.
1898: Second Convention of Peking results in the British ruling New Territories and New Kowloon.
1906: 1906 Hong Kong Typhoon was a major natural disaster that resulted in death count that reaches 5% of Hong Kong’s population.
1908: 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon resulted in major loss of property as well as the sinking of the passenger steamer SS Ying King.
1912: Qing Dynasty is overthrown and the Republic of China is formed.
1918: Happy Valley Racecourse fire ended in over 590 deaths which now has the highest number of casualties in Hong Kong history.
1922: Seamen’s strike of 1922, 30,000 Chinese seamen from Hong Kong and Canton (now Guangdong) went on strike for higher wages.
1925: Canton-Hong Kong Strike comprised of nearly all of the inhabitants of the colony leaving and making their way to Guangdong as there were rumors of the colonial government planning to poison Hong Kong’s water supply.
1937: Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937 killed nearly 11,000 people and is one of the worst natural disasters in Hong Kong history.
Japanese Occupation
1941: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong begins after the Battle of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the Pearl Harbor Incident occurred and the U.S. enters World War II.
1945: Japanese occupation ends when the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the United Nations formed.
1941: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong begins after the Battle of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the Pearl Harbor Incident occurred and the U.S. enters World War II.
1945: Japanese occupation ends when the U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the United Nations formed.
British Crown Colony
1949: the People’s Republic of China is formed
1960: the Four Asian Tigers is established (made up of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)
1966: Hong Kong 1966 riots and the Cultural Revolution in China
1968: Hong Kong flu pandemic killed an estimated one million people worldwide. Hong Kong had the first record of the outbreak as the population density was around 500 people per acre.
1997: Hong Kong is transferred to People’s Republic of China and is the first Special Administrative Region (SAR) formed.
1949: the People’s Republic of China is formed
1960: the Four Asian Tigers is established (made up of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan)
1966: Hong Kong 1966 riots and the Cultural Revolution in China
1968: Hong Kong flu pandemic killed an estimated one million people worldwide. Hong Kong had the first record of the outbreak as the population density was around 500 people per acre.
1997: Hong Kong is transferred to People’s Republic of China and is the first Special Administrative Region (SAR) formed.
People’s Republic of China
1999: Hello Kitty Murder - A nightclub hostess was kidnapped and imprisoned by three men. They held her in No. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon for a month. They beat and tortured daily her over a debt dispute over 20,000 HKD (2,560 USD). The apartment building was demolished in 2012. After her painful month of torture, her body was disposed of in pieces. Her head was stuffed into a Hello Kitty doll and her body and limbs were disposed of separately. They could still recover some of her teeth and an organ by the time they found her body.
2003: SARS outbreak held a 9.6% fatality rate according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
2009: Swine flu pandemic in Hong Kong. By November 25, 2009, there were a reported 32,301 confirmed cases of swine flu in the city.
2014: the Umbrella Revolution took place from September 26 to December 15 as a common man's protest against the mainland's insistence of only allowing political candidates that have been approved by Beijing.
2015: TODAY
1999: Hello Kitty Murder - A nightclub hostess was kidnapped and imprisoned by three men. They held her in No. 31 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon for a month. They beat and tortured daily her over a debt dispute over 20,000 HKD (2,560 USD). The apartment building was demolished in 2012. After her painful month of torture, her body was disposed of in pieces. Her head was stuffed into a Hello Kitty doll and her body and limbs were disposed of separately. They could still recover some of her teeth and an organ by the time they found her body.
2003: SARS outbreak held a 9.6% fatality rate according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
2009: Swine flu pandemic in Hong Kong. By November 25, 2009, there were a reported 32,301 confirmed cases of swine flu in the city.
2014: the Umbrella Revolution took place from September 26 to December 15 as a common man's protest against the mainland's insistence of only allowing political candidates that have been approved by Beijing.
2015: TODAY
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