HK on FIRE

By facebooker_100001105088674

  • Winston sends reinforcements

    Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements.
  • Canadian troops arive

    Canadian troops arive

    Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • Japanese airforce attack Kai Tak

    36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan river

  • Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

  • Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastaldefenses

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

  • Grenadiers Retake mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

    HK Comanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanely

  • Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

    Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

  • Japanese attack st. Stephens hospital

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

  • Over the month10,000 women are raped

  • Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. Theexchange rate was fixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.

  • police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • the HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the GuangdongPeople's anti-Japanese Guerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)

  • streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese.

  • Internment of most 'white' Allied civilians

  • food rationing begins

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride.

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

    the US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killingover 70,000 instantaneously.

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,

    Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,

  • 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 apublic holiday in Hong Kong until 1967.

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

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

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

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

    General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on theafternoon of.

A list shows items. A timeline shows sequence.

Use Timetoast to make dates, milestones, and turning points easier to understand in a clear visual format. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.

Build your timeline