Timeline of Hong Kong history
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The following is a timeline of the history of Hong Kong.
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 | |
| 1521 | Battle of Tunmen | ||
| 1562 | Battle of Sincouwaan | ||
| 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 | far east
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| 1793 | Anglo-Chinese relations
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| 1839 | Battle of Kowloon | First Opium War (1839–42) |
Colonial Hong Kong
British Crown colony
| Date | Governor | Events | Other people/events | |
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| 1841 | Charles Elliot | Possession Point |
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| 1842 | Henry Pottinger | Treaty of Nanjing |
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| 1843 | Formation of the Legislative Council and Executive Council | Ying Wa College, world's first Anglo-Chinese school relocated to Hong Kong | ||
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| 1847 | John Francis Davis | Building of Kowloon Walled city | ||
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| 1851 | George Bonham | Taiping Rebellion | ||
| 1853 | Chinese serial |
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| 1855 | John Bowring | First proposal of Praya Reclamation Scheme Battle of Ty-ho Bay |
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| 1856 | Second Opium War | |||
| 1859 | Hercules Robinson | |||
| 1860 | Convention of Peking, British rules Kowloon south of Boundary Street, Establishment of Diocesan Girls' School |
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| 1861 | British acquired Kowloon Peninsula | Frederick Stewart modernise HK education | ||
| 1865 | Establishment of HK Shanghai Bank |
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| 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] |
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| 1872 | Tung Wah Hospital established | |||
| 1874 | Arthur Kennedy |
1874 Hong Kong Typhoon |
Founding of the Universal Circulating Herald | |
| 1877 | Arthur Kennedy |
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| 1882 | John Pope Hennessy | |||
| 1883 | George Bowen | |||
| 1887 | William Des Vœux | Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese |
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| 1888 | Founding of Peak Tram | |||
| 1891 | William Robinson |
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| 1894 | Bubonic Plague |
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| 1899 | Six-Day War | |||
| 1904 | Henry Arthur Blake | Peak Reservation Ordinance |
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| 1906 | 1906 Hong Kong typhoon | |||
| 1907 | Matthew Nathan | |||
| 1908 | 1908 Hong Kong Typhoon |
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| 1910 | Opening of Kowloon–Canton Railway | |||
| 1912 | Frederick Lugard | Establishment of the overthrown
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| 1918 | Happy Valley Racecourse fire Gresson Street shootout |
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| 1919 | Francis Henry May | |||
| 1921 | Praya East Reclamation Scheme | |||
| 1922 | Seamen's strike of 1922 |
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| 1923 | Reginald Edward Stubbs |
HK university speech |
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| 1924 | Land allocation for Kai Tak Airport | |||
| 1925 | Canton-Hong Kong strike |
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| 1926 | Cecil Clementi | First Chinese member appointed to Executive Council | ||
| 1928 | First pre-RTHK radio broadcast |
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| 1930 | William Peel | |||
| 1933 | Founding of Kowloon Motor Bus | |||
| 1935 | Andrew Caldecott | |||
| 1937 | Great Hong Kong Typhoon of 1937 |
British Crown colony
| Date | Governor | Events | Other people/events |
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| 1947 | First government count of Hong Kong Taxi |
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| 1948 | Alexander Grantham | HK Social Welfare Department formed | |
| 1949 | Establishment of People's Republic of China
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| 1953 | Shek Kip Mei Fire |
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| 1955 | Kashmir Princess assassination attempt | ||
| 1956 | Hong Kong 1956 riots |
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| 1957 | RTV a first terrestrial television station | Asian Flu
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| 1958 | Robert Brown Black |
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| 1960 | Four Asian Tigers (est.) Typhoon Mary |
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| 1962 | Typhoon Wanda | ||
| 1964 | David Clive Crosbie Trench |
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| 1966 | Cultural Revolution in China | ||
| 1967 | TVB a second terrestrial television station |
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| 1968 | Hong Kong flu |
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| 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 |
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| 1976 | Home Ownership Scheme introduced | ||
| 1978 | Chinese Economic Reform begins in China | ||
| 1979 | Establishment of Mass Transit Railway |
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| 1980 | United front in Hong Kong (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. | 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | |
| 1990 | Basic Law proclaimed | ||
| 1991 | STAR TV a first satellite television station |
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| 1992 | Chris Patten |
United States-Hong Kong Policy Act | |
| 1993 | stampede | ||
| 1996 | Garley Building fire Phoenix Satellite Television a first satellite television station based in Hong Kong |
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| 1997 | Tsing Ma Bridge opened. Hong Kong transferred to the People's Republic of China. |
HKSAR
| Date | Chief Executive | Events | Other people/events |
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| 1997 | Tung Chee Hwa |
First crisis. | Asian Financial Crisis
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| 1998 | Kai Tak International Airport replaced by Hong Kong International Airport
First post-handover elections |
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| 1999 | Hello Kitty murder Flight 642 crash |
PRC bans Falun Gong cult | |
| 2001 | Director of Immigration v Chong Fung Yuen | ||
| 2003 | SARS outbreak, 1:99 Concert Leslie Cheung suicide CEPA Demonstration against Article 23 Harbour Fest Murder of Robert Kissel Death of Anita Mui |
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| 2005 | Donald Tsang | WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference |
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| 2006 | Opening of Ngong Ping 360 Demolition of Star Ferry Pier The Bus Uncle |
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| 2007 | MTR–KCR merger 2007 HK Island by-election |
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| 2008 | Mong Kok acid attacks Demolition of Queen's Pier |
Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign
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| 2009 | 2009 flu pandemic in Hong Kong |
Xinjiang journalist attack
Artistes 88 Fund Raising Campaign Release of Bitcoin, the world first successful decentralized cryptocurrency | |
| 2010 | CE and LegCo selection document |
Opposition to the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Express Rail Link
Artistes 414 Fund Raising Campaign Manila hostage crisis | |
| 2011 | 2011 Fa Yuen street fire |
Free Ai Weiwei street art campaign | |
| 2012 | Early 2012 Hong Kong protests Moral and National Education controversy Hong Kong plastic disaster Lamma Island ferry collision |
Hong Kong mainland China driving scheme | |
| 2013 | CY Leung |
Vallejos v. Commissioner of Registration 2013 Hong Kong dock strike |
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| 2014 | 2014 Hong Kong Protests (Umbrella Revolution) |
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| 2015 | HKU pro-vice-chancellor selection controversy |
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| 2016 | Hong Kong LegCo candidates' disqualification controversy |
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| 2017 | Carrie Lam | Imprisonment of Hong Kong democracy activists | |
| 2018 | Opening of Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section Tai Po Road bus accident Opening of the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge Victor Mallet visa controversy Typhoon Mangkhut |
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| 2019 | protests ) |
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| 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic National Anthem Ordinance passed National Security Law passed Opening of Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link | ||
| 2021 | Tuen Ma Line 2021 Hong Kong legislative election |
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| 2022 | John Lee Ka-chiu | Hong Kong recorded more than 2.6 million COVID-19 cases.[5] | South East Asia countries
Release of ChatGPT |
| 2023 | 2023 Hong Kong electoral changes |
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
- ISBN 978-962-209-944-9.
- ^ "Number of notifiable infectious diseases by month in 2022". Center for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong Government. Archived from the original on 2023-02-10.