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Selling of Opium
Opium is a type of drug that you find from poppy flowers. Opium is normally found in India and when the British invaded Hong Kong and most of the people in hong kong got addicted to it and traded a lot of money to get opium. -
The First Opium War
The Opium War was one of the wars against Great Britain and China it be gan in 1839 – 1842. The Chinese government didn't want opium to come into China. Too many people were getting addicted to the opium drug. the Chinese sent a letter to the British government asking them to stop the traders. When the traders continued to sell the drug, the Chinese seized over 20,000 chests of opium from the traders. Soon, fighting broke out between the two sides and the First Opium War started. -
The Second Opium War
The second Opium war started in October 8, 1856 – October 18, 1860, The French paired up the British in this war against China. The war started when the British placed more demands on the Chinese including authorize the opium trade and opening all of China for trade with British companies. When the Chinese government said no, tensions increased between the two countries. -
HK acquired by Britain
Britain acquired HK island and then in 1860 took over Kowloon. This gave them they obtained it for them selfs.It was acquired from China.It was founded as a crown colony of Britain. -
The End of the Opium wars
The end of the Opium wars ended tragically when the British won the wars. -
Hong Kong is Leased to Britain
In 1898, HK was leased to Britain for 99 years. They took over the New Territories and it was leased for 1997.It became part of the The British Empire -
WW2 Black Christmas
the Japanese attacked HK in WW2.
The attack of Hong Kong by the JAPANESE was on the same morning as the attack of Pearl Harbor. It was a significant event because it is one of the most well known events because it was one of Hong Kong’s Most DARK times of HK.
Sadly Japan won and ruled for 3 years 8 months they did the most terrible things to the Hong Kong residents -
Japan surrenders WW2
On Sep 02 1945, The Japanese surrender (which ended world war 2).The British Navy arrived to re-establish British rule in HK. Now HK is part of the crown colony. -
The Handover of Hong Kong
The British handed over Hong Kong after 99 years in July 1, 1997. -
The Umbrella Revolution
Joshua Wong, a 17 year old student started to protest to the government for a fair election for Chief Executive. Soon almost 90% of Hong Kong's population went to protest against CY Leung.During the protest the government ordered the police to get the protesters to back off with some very aggressive methods such as: pepper spray, tear gas to hurt the protesters eyes or they used battens to bash people. But the protesters had no weapons so they used was goggles and umbrellas to protect themselves -
Chinese national anthem booed by people of Hong Kong
In a Football match against Hong Kong and booed Lebanon and when the Chinese national anthem started the people of Hong Kong
started to boo the national anthem.
