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September 1941
Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements. -
November 16 1941
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert. -
December 11 1941
Evacuation of New Territories -
Dec 13 1941
Evacuation of Kowloon. -
December 13 1941
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillary barrage of the island's northern coastel defenses. -
At 22:30 hrs, December 18 1941
Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island. -
Dec 19 1941
Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualities. -
December 20 1941
Hong Kong Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured. -
December 23 1941
Royal refles Retreat to Standley. -
5:00am December 25 1941
Japanese attack Royal refles and capture Standley ford. -
6:00am December 25 1941
Japanese attack St. Stephen's College. -
January 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. -
January 1942
Police recruited to be Kempeitai. -
January 21 1942
Interment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians. -
February 1942
The Hong Kong Kowloon brigage was established from the Guangdong People's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang. -
April 1942
Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese. -
April 1942
Food rationing begins. -
July 1942
The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride. -
By December 1942
Over the month 10,000 women are raped. -
June 1943
Public utilities handed over to Japanese control. Repartriation of Chinese back to the mainland. -
August 6 1945
The US dropped an atomic bomb called the "Enola Gay" on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously. -
August 9 1945
Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
August 15 1945
Japan finally surrenders. -
August 30 1945
Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on. The "30 August" was declared as the "Labour Day", and had been a public holiday in Hong Kong until 1967. -
September 1 1945
Franklin Glimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor. -
September 16 1945
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governer. -
September 30 1946
General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.
