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Hong Kong history Brendan

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    Opium war

    the people of Hong Kong started to get adicted to opium so they decided to trade it for their tea silk to Britian then the Hong Kong government didn't like the trading their tea and silk so then the opium war started.
  • Treaty of Nanking

    Treaty of Nanking
    The Treaty of Nanking started after the Opium war because the government said that ok you win if you stop giving us opium we'll give you Hong Kong for 99 years.
  • 97 handover started

    97 handover started
    the 97 handover started at the first sptember 1898. china gave hong kong to britain, so between 1898 and 1997 brtain owned hong kong for 99 years.
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    97 handover

    China gave hong Kong to Britain for 99 years because they didn't want Chinese people to trade there silk for opium.
  • japanese ocupation

    japanese ocupation
    the Japanese ocupation started on 1941 on December 25th time was very harsh when Japan took over Hong Kong for example they got very poor food.
  • Japanese surrender

    Japanese surrender
    The Japannese surendered on 2nd september 1945 they started a fight from Hong Kong trying to uprise many people died.
  • 97 handover relised

    97 handover relised
    the 97 handover was relised in 1997 july first. So now hong kong belongs to China