Timeline of Hong Kong history

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


Contents

Date Ruling entity Ruler of Hong Kong 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 (estimated)
901 AD Tang Dynasty 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

Date Ruling entity HK Governor Events Other people/events
1839 Qing Dynasty First Opium War
1841 Charles Elliot Convention of Chuenpeh
1842 British Crown Colony,
United Kingdom		 Henry Pottinger Treaty of Nanking
1843 Formation of the Legislative Council and the Executive Council
1844
1847 John Francis Davis Building of Kowloon Walled city
1848
1851 Samuel George Bonham Taiping Rebellion
1854
1855 John Bowring
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 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
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 University of Hong Kong opened Establishment of the Republic of China, Qing Dynasty overthrown
1919 Francis Henry May
1924 Reginald Edward Stubbs Land allocation for Kai Tak Airport
1925
1926 Cecil Clementi First Chinese member appointed to Executive Council
1930 William Peel
1933 Founding of Kowloon Motor Bus
1935 Andrew Caldecott

Date Ruling entity HK Governor Events Other people/events
1941 Japan Geoffry Alexander Stafford 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, WW II ends, United Nations formed
1946 British Crown Colony,
United Kingdom		 Mark Aitchison Young
1947 Founding of Hong Kong Taxi
1948 Alexander Grantham HK Social Welfare Department formed
1949 Establishment of People's Republic of China

Date Ruling entity HK Governor Events Other people/events
1953 British Crown Colony,
United Kingdom		 Alexander Grantham Shek Kip Mei fire
1956 Hong Kong 1956 riots
1957 Asian Flu
1958 Robert Brown Black
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
1976 Murray MacLehose Home Ownership Scheme introduced
1978 Chinese Economic Reform begins in China
1979 Establishment of Mass Transit Railway
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

Date Ruling entity HK Chief Executive Events Other people/events
1997 People's Republic of China Chris Patten Hong Kong transferred to the People's Republic of China and became the 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
2003 SARS outbreak
2005 Donald Tsang

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