Hong Kong colonialism

By Exue

  • Lin Zexu became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton

    He ordered the foreign traders to surrender their opium stock.

  • Expeditionary force was placed under Chief Superintendent of Trade, Charles Elliot.

  • Convention of Chuenpee

  • Elliot announced the conclusion of preliminary arrangements.

    The arrangements included the cession of Hong Kong Island and its harbour to the British Crown.

  • The Union Flag was raised on Hong Kong.

  • Treaty of Nanjing

    The cession was fromally ratified.

  • A French expeditionary force joined the British.

    They joined the British to avenge the execution of french missionary Fr. Auguste Chapdelaine.

  • The Convention of Peking - Kowloon Peninsula was occupied

  • Second Convention of Peking

    granted a 99 year lease of the rest of Kowloon south of the Shenzhen River and 230 islands

  • The British formally took possession.