The Portuguese set up a trading base on nearby Macau
Hong Kong, the name means fragrant harbor, was founded by British Naval officers in the 17th century as a western trading post for tea.
The British East India Company establishes offices in Guangzhou. Britain immediately starts to import Opium, causing massive addiction to the drug in China
Jardine Matheson was founded as a trading house in Hong Kong.
Obscure oil paintings show a sophisticated irrigation system on the Island
The British captured Hong Kong from China.
The First Opium War breaks out. The war is caused by the Chinese seizing an estimated half tonne of British imported opium and burning it
Preliminary cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom
The Convention of Chuenpi ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain from China as part of the concessions from the Opium War. It became a capitalist bastion as opposed to the rest of China. The British won the first Opium War and forced China to open
Cession of Hong Kong Island, founded as a crown colony of the United Kingdom
Second Opium Wars
Cession of Kowloon (south of Boundary Street)
Lease of the New Territories (including New Kowloon)
Great Hong Kong Typhoon
Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong begins after the Battle of Hong Kong
End of Japanese Occupation
First goverment count of Hong Kong Taxi
Shek Kip Mei fire
Hong Kong flu
Ocean Park
Garley building fire
The Hong Kong film "Beyond Hypothermia" with Wu Chin Lin was produced.
