Hong Kong Black Christmas

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Sep 12, 1941

Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements

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Nov 16, 1941

Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

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Dec 8, 1941

36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river

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Dec 11, 1941

Evacuation of New Territories

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Dec 12, 1941

Evacuation of Kowloon

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Dec 13, 1941

Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

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Dec 17, 1941

Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal
defenses

Hong Kong On Fire

Dec 17, 1941

Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses

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Dec 18, 1941

Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

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Dec 19, 1941

Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

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Dec 20, 1941

HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

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Dec 23, 1941

Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

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Dec 25, 1941

Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

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Dec 25, 1941

Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender

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Dec 25, 1941

Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

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Jan 10, 1942

Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

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Jan 15, 1942

Over the month10,000 women are raped

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Jan 24, 1942

Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.

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Feb 14, 1942

The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong. People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)

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Apr 21, 1942

Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

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Jul 20, 1942

The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

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Sep 16, 1942

Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

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Jan 20, 1943

Police recruited to be Kempeitai

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Jan 21, 1943

Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians

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Apr 17, 1943

Food rationing begins

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Jun 8, 1943

Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

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Aug 6, 1945

the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously

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Aug 9, 1945

Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,

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Aug 15, 1945

Japan finally surrenders.

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Aug 30, 1945

Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy. The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.

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Sep 1, 1945

Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

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Sep 6, 1945

British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender. Mark Young resumes as Governor.

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Sep 30, 1946

General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.