Timeline of Hong Kong history

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

Contents 1 Imperial China Era 2 Colonial Hong Kong 2.1 Qing Dynasty 2.2 British Crown Colony 2.3 Japan 2.4 British Crown Colony 3 People's Republic of China 4 See also 5 External links

[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		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 modernise HK education
1865		Establishment of HK Shanghai Bank
1866	Richard Graves MacDonnell	Four big families of Hong Kong (est.)
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
1918			1918 Shantou earthquake
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		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

[edit] Japan

Date	HK Governor	Events	Other people/events
1941	Geoffry 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
1996		Garley building fire

[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 Flight 642 crash
2001
2003		SARS outbreak, 1:99 Concert 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 Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign Lehman mini-bond crisis ATV management debacle Citizens' Radio raided Mong Kok acid attacks	HK holds 2008 Olympics Equestrian event HK holds 2008 Paralympics Equestrian event
2009		Global financial crisis Hong Kong Macau cultural exchange Mong Kok acid attacks 20th anniversary Tiananmen square incident march Kam Shan Park Macaques killing	Mugabe controversies

[edit] See also

• Political events in Hong Kong since 1997
• History of Hong Kong
• Timeline of Chinese history

[edit] External links

• Hong Kong Timeline at Mtholyoke