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The opium war started when the Chinese using ropes for estimated 1,000 kilograms of British imported opium and burning it.the war lasted from 1839–1842.
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In the mid-1850s, the European powers and the United States seek to keep negotiating their formal agreements with China. This effort was led by the British who seeked the opening of all of China to their merchants, an ambassador in Beijing,laws of the opium trade, and the action of trying to free a state of imports from taxes. Unwilling to keep granting demands to the West, the Qing government of Emperor Xian Feng refused these requests.
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The Chinese find themselves on the losing side again and are forced to give up the Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutter’s Island,Hong kong to the British.
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Britain forces more granted demands from the failing Qing Dynasty, gaining a 99-year lease of the New Territories. This lease will end in 1997.
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Japan invades China resulting in a flood of refuges heading for Hong Kong swelling the population to around 1.5 million
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After attacking Pearl Harbour, the Japanese army invades Hong Kong. The colony resists the invasion for two weeks. Western citizens, including the governor, are interned in Stanley, while Chinese citizens are brutally killed in large numbers.
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As Japan surrenders to the Allies, they surrender Hong Kong, returning it to British ownership.
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China's organisation community defeats the nationalist in control of China.The civil war drives hundreds of thousand to flee to Hong Kong.
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The British knowing that the 99 years lease of New Territories are over,they ask to renew.Deng refuses,and demands that the British return all of Hong Kong to China.
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Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets Deng Xiaoping as Margaret Thatcher's special envoy. Deng tells him after 1997 China will rule Hong Kong under a "one country, two systems" policy.
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The British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and China's premier, Zhao Zi-yang, sign the Joint Declaration requiring Britain to transfer authority of Hong Kong to China at midnight June 30 1997. Britain had Hong Kong for 50 years after 1997.
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Hong Kong officially becomes a special administrative region of China.After the agreement of Hong Kong Being Handed over to China after Britain had it, the Britain and China government has resolved that China will have Hong Kong from then on.
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n Hong Kong the Standby Signal No. 1 was hoisted at 10.45 a.m. on 13 September when York was about 650 km to the southeast. It was hot with a few showers. Local winds were mainly moderate northerly on 14 September. But as York intensified into a severe tropical storm and headed towards the coast of Guangdong.
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After the handover everybody celebrates because they are not part of a British colony anymore so everyone was very happy that they were an independent country again, instead of being part of Britain.
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The Chinese president, Jiang Ze-min, urges the government of Hong Kong to do a better job for its people as the territory marks the fifth anniversary of its handover from British control.
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Hong Kong suffers a deadly outbreak of the SARS virus which kills 300 people.SARS: Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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Tung Chee Hwa is forced to resign after popular protest. Donald Tsang, a local man who worked in the colonial government, replaces him.
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It was the first No. 10 Hurricane Signal in Hong Kong since Typhoon York in September 1999. Hurricane force winds were recorded over the southwestern part of Hong Kong during the passage of Vicente.
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Thousands of people have rallied in Hong Kong to protest against the jailing of three important pro-democracy activists. The three were found guilty of unlawful assembly last year for their role in the "Umbrella Movement" civil disobedience movement in 2014, demanding full democracy.
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Typhoon Hato, which swept through Hong Kong.It was the first Number 10 signal since 2012. Businesses and flights were disrupted, schools and offices closed, and some villages and estates near the shore suffered flooding.
