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World War Two Hong Kong Occupation
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Event 32
Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements. -
Event 4
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert. -
Event 1
36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese -
Event 5
Evacuation of New Territories. -
Event 6
Evacuation of Kowloon. -
Event 17
Japanese demand surrender (surrender ignored) -
Event 20
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses. -
Event 18
Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island. -
Event 10
Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties -
Event 13
HK commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured. -
Event 25
Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely. -
Event 19
Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital -
Event 21
Mt Cameron Captured and Malty calls for Governor Young to surrender. -
Event 16
Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort. -
Event 22
Over the month10,000 women are raped -
Event 11
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. -
Event 26
Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland -
Event 24
Police recruited to be Kempeitai -
Event 27
Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese. -
Event 7
Food rationing begins, -
Event 28
The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride. -
Event 31
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) -
Event 14
Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians -
Event 23
Public utilities handed to Japanese control. -
Event 30
The US dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 immediately. -
Event 2
Another atomic bomb dropped by the US over Nagasaki. -
Event 15
Japan finally surrenders. -
Event 29
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 -
Event 12
Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on the 30'th of August. -
Event 8
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor. -
Event 3
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governor -
Event 9
General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of September 30'th 1946