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Aug 29, 1557
The Portuguese set up a trading base on nearby Macau
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Hong Kong, the name means fragrant harbor, was founded by British Naval officers in the 17th century as a western trading post for tea.
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The British East India Company establishes offices in Guangzhou. Britain immediately starts to import Opium, causing massive addiction to the drug in China
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Jardine Matheson was founded as a trading house in Hong Kong.
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Obscure oil paintings show a sophisticated irrigation system on the Island
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The British captured Hong Kong from China.
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The First Opium War breaks out. The war is caused by the Chinese seizing an estimated half tonne of British imported opium and burning it
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Preliminary cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom
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The Convention of Chuenpi ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain from China as part of the concessions from the Opium War. It became a capitalist bastion as opposed to the rest of China. The British won the first Opium War and forced China to open
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Cession of Hong Kong Island, founded as a crown colony of the United Kingdom
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Second Opium Wars
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Cession of Kowloon (south of Boundary Street)
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Lease of the New Territories (including New Kowloon)
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Great Hong Kong Typhoon
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Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong begins after the Battle of Hong Kong
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End of Japanese Occupation
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First goverment count of Hong Kong Taxi
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Shek Kip Mei fire
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Hong Kong flu
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Ocean Park
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Garley building fire
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The Hong Kong film "Beyond Hypothermia" with Wu Chin Lin was produced.
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Disneyland
