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Hong Kong History Events

By karinayau

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

  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

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

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

  • Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

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

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

    Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

  • Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

  • Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

  • Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender

  • Over the month10,000 women are raped

  • 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.

  • Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians.

  • 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)

    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)

  • streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • food rationing begins

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

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

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

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

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan finally surrenders.

    Japan finally surrenders.

  • Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on • 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.

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

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

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