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In 1842 Hong Kong was born from the Qing dynasty government, was defeated in the first opium war in 1842, When China cedes Hong Kong Island to Britain after the first opium war.
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The second opium war was a war between British, French and Qing dynasty of China when they fight for a drug called opium.
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China leases the new territories together with 235 Islands to Britain for 99 years from July first.
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With the sudden Sino-Japanese war ,Hong Kong becomes a refuges for thousands to mainland China.
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Japan occupies Hong Kong,Food shortages make many Hong Kong residents to move out of mainland China.Population drops from 1.6m in 1941 to 650,000 by the end of the Second World War.
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Britain re-establishes civil government.Hundreds of thousands Residents return
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Hong Kong enjoys economic revival based on light industries.
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Social discontent and labor disputes,Rife among poorly-paid workforce.
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Living conditions improve and social unrest subsides.
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Serve riots breakout ,by followers of China Culture.
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Hong Kong is officially an "Asian-Tiger" -one of the highly developed economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
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Britain and China begin talks on the future of Hong Kong.
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Britain and China sign joint Declaration under the conditions which Hong Kong will return to Chinese rules and regulation in 1997.Under the "one country, two systems".for 50 years after the Handover.
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The massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square leads to calls for the introduction of further democratic safeguards in Hong Kong.
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Beijing officially conforms Hong Kong's post-handover
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Chris Patten becomes last British governor of Hong Kong, to see the country's handover.
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Hong Kong stock market crashes.
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Elections held for new government
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Both China and Hong Kong are hit by the Sars virus-Severe acute respiratory a group of symptoms .Measures are enforced to stop the disease spreading.
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Beijing says it will allow Hong Kong to elect its own leader in 2017 and their own law in 2020.
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The umbrella movement is a political movement that emerged during the Hong Kong democracy protests of 2014.
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The typhoon made a lot of destruction the damage was 4.1 billion.
