Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate wasfixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen.
Hong Kong is in danger and has been sent reinforcements
Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert
36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield
8am
Units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun Shan River
8am
Evacuation of New Territories
Evacuation of Kowloon
HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses
Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island
22:30 hrs
Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties
HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured
Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley
Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort
5:00am
Japanese attack St. Stephens’s College
6:00am
Mt Cameron captured and Maltby calls for Governor Young to surrender
3:15pm
Over the month10,000 women are raped
Police recruited to be Kempeitai
The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-JapaneseGuerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁)
Food rationing begins
The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride
Public utilities handed over to Japanese control,Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland
The US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000instantaneously
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 a publicholiday in Hong Kong until 1967
Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender;Mark Young resumes as Governor
General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.
