History of Hong Kong

By Adelineyu

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

    It was at 10:30 pm.

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

    It was at 3:25pm.
  • Winston Churchill realized that Hong Kong is in danger

    Winston Churchill realized that Hong Kong is in danger

    they decides to send reinforcements
  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

    So HMCS Prince David was one of three Canadian National Steamships passenger liners that were converted for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)
  • 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

    It happened at 8am.

  • Evacuation of New Territories

    The flag of imperial Japan is flying in the New Territories.
  • Evacuation of Kowloon

    Evacuation of Kowloon

    The flag of imperial Japan is flying in the Kowloon.
  • Japanese demand surrender

    Japanese demand surrender

    surrender is ignored

  • Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage

    the island's northern coastal
    defenses
  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler

    Grenadiers Retake mount Butler

    with heavy casualties

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

    Brigadier John Kel­burne Law­son was killed in action dur­ing the defence of Hong Kong.
  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

    Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

    That day is christmax eve.
  • Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

    Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

    It happened at 6am.
  • Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

    it happened at 5am.

  • police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • 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

  • Over the month10,000 women are raped

    Raping of local women was common in those days

  • police recruited to be Kempeitai

    Hong Kong police were recruited to become Japanese military police

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

    Unemployed were deported to China

  • Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians

    Governor, British soldiers and civilians were kept in prison-of-war or internment camps

  • 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)

    Local resident Cai Guo Liang acted as commander

  • streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese

    For example,Queens Road was one of those.

  • food rationing begins

    Each family was given a rationing license to get very little food
  • The British Army Aid Group was formed.

    The British Army Aid Group was formed.

    It's formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.
  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

    Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

    Hospitals were occupied by Japanese troops, they are turned to military hospital or forced to close

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

    The atomic bomb on Hiroshima has shocked the world

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,

    The second bomb has caused Japan to surrender

  • 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

    British control over Hong Kong was restored

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

    British government moved quickly to regain control over Hong Kong

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

    Control over the colony was quickly re-established by the British government

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

    Japanese war criminal was deserved to be executed