Timeline of Hong Kong history
The following is a timeline of the history of Hong Kong.
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Imperial China
| Date | Ruling entity | Events | Other people/events |
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| 221 BC | Qin Dynasty | First records of the territory in Chinese history | |
| 206 BC | Han Dynasty | Inhabitants in Ma Wan Island | |
| 25 AD | 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 | |
| 1661 | Qing Dynasty | Kangxi Emperor orders the Great Clearance, which requires the evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong. What is now the territory of Hong Kong became largely wasteland during the ban.[1] | |
| 1669 | The coastal ban is lifted | ||
| 1685 | 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 | ||
| 1839 | First Opium War (1839–42) |
Colonial Hong Kong
British Crown colony
| Date | Governor | Events | Other people/events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1841 | Charles Elliot | Convention of Chuenpi Commodore James Bremer at Possession Point | |
| 1842 | Henry Pottinger | Treaty of Nanking | |
| 1843 | Formation of the Legislative Council and Executive Council | Ying Wa College, world's first Anglo-Chinese school relocated to Hong Kong | |
| 1844 | |||
| 1847 | John Francis Davis | Building of Kowloon Walled city | |
| 1848 | |||
| 1851 | 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 Street, Establishment of Diocesan Girls' School | ||
| 1861 | British acquired Kowloon Peninsula | Frederick Stewart modernise HK education | |
| 1865 | Establishment of HK Shanghai Bank | ||
| 1866 | Richard Graves MacDonnell | Four big families of Hong Kong (est.) | |
| 1868 | The Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, ordered four customs stations to be established in waterways surrounding Hong Kong and Kowloon at Fat Tong Chau, Ma Wan, Cheung Chau and Kowloon Walled City. It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government.[2] These stations ceased to operate in 1899 after the lease of the New Territories to Britain.[3] | ||
| 1872 | Tung Wah Hospital established | ||
| 1874 | Arthur Kennedy | 1874 Hong Kong Typhoon | Founding of the Universal Circulating Herald |
| 1877 | Arthur Kennedy | ||
| 1882 | John Pope Hennessy | ||
| 1883 | George Bowen | ||
| 1887 | 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 | ||
| 1899 | Six-Day War | ||
| 1904 | Henry Arthur Blake | Peak Reservation Ordinance | |
| 1906 | 1906 Hong Kong typhoon | ||
| 1907 | Matthew Nathan | ||
| 1908 | 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon | ||
| 1912 | Frederick Lugard | Establishment of the Republic of China, Qing Dynasty overthrown | |
| 1915 | Establishment of St. Paul's Co-educational College | ||
| 1918 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire Gresson Street shootout | ||
| 1919 | Francis Henry May | ||
| 1921 | Praya East Reclamation Scheme | ||
| 1922 | Seamen's strike of 1922 | ||
| 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 | Canton-Hong Kong strike | ||
| 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 |
Japan
| Date | Governor | Events | Other people/events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Geoffry Northcote, Mark Aitchison Young | Japanese occupation of Hong Kong begins after the Battle of Hong Kong | Pearl Harbor incident, U.S. enters World War II |
| 1942 | Rensuke Isogai | ||
| 1945 | Hisakazu Tanaka | End of Japanese occupation | US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, World War II ends, United Nations formed |
| 1946 | Mark Aitchison Young |
British Crown colony
| Date | 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 | ||
| 1955 | Kashmir Princess assassination attempt | ||
| 1956 | Hong Kong 1956 riots | ||
| 1957 | RTV a first terrestrial television station | Asian Flu | |
| 1958 | Robert Brown Black | ||
| 1960 | Four Asian Tigers (est.) Typhoon Mary | ||
| 1962 | Typhoon Wanda | ||
| 1964 | David Clive Crosbie Trench | ||
| 1966 | Hong Kong 1966 riots Visit of Princess Margaret in March[4] | Cultural Revolution in China | |
| 1967 | Hong Kong 1967 riots TVB a second terrestrial television station | ||
| 1968 | Hong Kong flu | ||
| 1971 | Murray MacLehose | 6-year free Primary education funded | Typhoon Rose |
| 1972 | Small House Policy 1972 Hong Kong landslides | PRC request HK and Macau off United Nations list | |
| 1974 | Independent Commission Against Corruption established Home Ownership Scheme introduced | ||
| 1976 | 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 | ATV replacing RTV | |
| 1983 | Black Saturday | ||
| 1984 | Sino-British Joint Declaration and the proposal of One country, two systems | ||
| 1985 | Braemar Hill murders | ||
| 1987 | David Wilson | Black Monday | |
| 1989 | More than 1 million people marched for three consecutive Sundays in Hong Kong, including 1.5 million on May 28. | Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests | |
| 1990 | Basic Law proclaimed | ||
| 1991 | STAR TV a first satellite television station | ||
| 1992 | Chris Patten | United States-Hong Kong Policy Act | |
| 1993 | Cable TV Hong Kong a first pay television station Lan Kwai Fong stampede | ||
| 1996 | Garley Building fire Phoenix Satellite Television a first satellite television station based in Hong Kong | ||
| 1997 | Tsing Ma Bridge opened. Hong Kong transferred to the People's Republic of China. |
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See also
References
- Hong Kong Museum of History: "The Hong Kong Story" Exhibition Materials Archived 2009-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Civil Engineering and Development Department, Kowloon Development Office, "Agreement No. CE 35/2006(CE). Kai Tak Development Engineering Study. Further archaeological excavation report", p. 8, August 2009
- Antiquities and Monuments Office: Site of Chinese Customs Station
- Yanne, Andrew; Heller, Gillis (2009). Signs of a Colonial Era. Hong Kong University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-962-209-944-9.
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