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The Selling of Opium
During 1800s the British found Hong Kong to be the perfect place to unload the Opium they had brought from India -
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The First Opium War
After negotiations failed to stop Britain from selling Opium to the Chinese a war began, this was known as the First Opium War -
The Treaty of Nanjing
The Treaty of Nanking or Nanjing was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China. This gave Britain control over the Hong Kong Islands -
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The Second Opium War
The Second Opium War was a war pitting the British and the French against the Qing Dynasty of China -
99 Year Lease
In 1898, Britain was granted an additional 99 years of rule over Hong Kong under the Second Convention of Peking. In September 1984, after years of negotiations, the British and the Chinese signed a formal agreement approving the 1997 turnover of the island in exchange for the Chinese to preserve Hong Kong’s capitalist system -
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Japenese Rule
During World War 2, on the same day that the Japenese launched their attack on Pearl Harbour, they launched an attack on Hong Kong which the British surrendered after an 18-day battle. Of the 1.6M people that lived there, over 1M had fled or were deported by the time the Japenese was defeated after the second World War -
The Chinese Civil War
During 1949 China was in civil war, many of Shanghai's capitalist class to flee to Hong Kong making Hong Kong into a thriving manufacturing plant. -
The Korean War
During the Korean War, the west blocked all trade with foreign countries, to recover, the capitalists of Hong Kong switched to high tech electronics. -
Shek Kip Mei Fire
A fire swept through a shantytown in New Kowloon leaving over 53,000 people homeless -
The Handover
During 1997, Hong Kong went from British rule back to China on a 1 Country, 2 Sytems policy. -
Article 23
Article 23 allowed police or any high government official to burst into your home and arrest you for any suspicious items found inside. Over 500,000 people of Hong Kong took to the streets and started protesting. -
The Umbrella Revolution
The Umbrella Revolution successfully stopped China from importing local education into Hong Kong schools. This was called The Umbrella Revolution because people used umbrella's to shield themselves from the tear and pepper spray used.
