Timeline: Modern Metapolis in China | Timetoast

Jan 25, 1841

Britains TOOK HK

Britain took HK because China lost the war!
Oct 7, 1856

2ND OPIUM WAR
Dec 25, 1941

Sir Mark Young surrendered to Japan
Period: 1945 to Jul 1, 1997

Modern Metropolis and the return to China
Dec 25, 1953

Shek Kip Mei

Shek Kip Mei got a fire and lots of people were homeless because lots of people were poor so they made wooden houses!So after that day the goverment decided to make houses for poor people!
Sep 1, 1962

Typhoon Wanda!

Typhoon Wanda was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in Hong Kong. It was the 59th disturbance in the record-breaking 1962 Pacific typhoon season, forming in August east of the Philippines.
Jul 1, 1997

HK was given back to China.

Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong.