ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Hong Kong </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="Hongkong"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2004-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> History of Hong Kong <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xhongkong.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xhongkong.html"> <img src = "../banners/banhongkong.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histatlas/china/haxhongkong.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Atlas <BR> Hong Kong </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on November 29th 2004, last revised on November 14th 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Hong Kong </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1839-1842 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First Opium War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1841 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> British occupation of Hong Kong Island </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1842 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Treaty of Nanjing; China formally ceded Hong Kong island to Britain in perpetuity </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1844 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Oriental Bank first bank to open in Hong Kong </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1844 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Land Registration Ordinnance </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1845 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Colonial Court established </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1856-1860 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Second Opium War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1860 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Beijing Convention; China ceded Kowloon to Britain in perpetuity </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1862 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First postage stamps for Hong Kong issued </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1864 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First Hong Kong coins were minted </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1867 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hope Dock opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1869 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Opening of the Suez Canal; route to Britain shortened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1870 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Licences to casinos (opened in 1867) withdrawn </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1871 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Hong Kong estimated at 124,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1880 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First Chinese member elected to the Legislative Council </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1894 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Bubonic plague epidemic </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1898 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Britain leased the New Territories from China for a period of 99 years </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1898-1904 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Land survey </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1901 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : Population of Hong Kong 297,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1903 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First tramway lines opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1910 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hong Kong University founded </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1911 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : Population of Hong Kong 366,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920es </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Emergence of a manufacturing industry </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1921 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : Population of Hong Kong 625,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1924 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Kai Tak Airport taken into operation </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1928 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Radio Hong Kong went on air </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1931 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : Population of Hong Kong 849,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1935 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Currency reform : Hong Kong Dollar introduced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1940 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Hong Kong estimated at 1,400,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1941-1945 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Japanese Occupation </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1949 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Communist victory in China's Civil War. Large number of refugees entered Hong Kong </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1949 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Britain, PRC established diplomatic relations </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1957 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Radio Television Hong Kong broadcast first tv program </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1960 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Hong Kong estimated at 3,064,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1962 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Kai Tak became International Airport </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1966-1967 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Cultural Revolution in the PRC caused unrest in Hong Kong </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1969 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hang Seng Index (at Hong Kong Stock Exchange) introduced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1975 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Establishment of Hong Kong Museum of History </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1976 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> The PRC rejected a British request to extend the 1898 lease of the New Territories </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1980 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Hong Kong estimated at 5,039,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1982 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> British PM Margaret Thatcher visited PRC </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1984 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Britain, PRC signed Joint Declaration which envisioned transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong for 1997 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1989 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hong Kong residents demonstrated in support of the Tienanmen Square protesters </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1990 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hong Kong Basic Law passed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1992 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten announced political reforms, rejected by PRC </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1996 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : Population of Hong Kong 6,218,000 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1997 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Hong Kong transferred to PRC; declared Special Administrative Zone </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1998 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Kai Tak Airport closed; Hong Kong International Airport (Chek Lap Kok) opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> SARS crisis </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align="center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? "/" + file : file; referer = (document.referrer) ? document.referrer : ""; document.write("<script type=\"text/javascript\" "); document.write("src=\"" + path_to_counterfile + "?chCounter_mode=js&status=" + cstatus + "&visible=" + visible); document.write("&seite=" + file + "&referer=" + referer + "&res_width=" + screen.width + "&res_height=" + screen.height + "\"></" + "script>"); //--> </script> <!-- End of CH Counter --> <BR> </div> </body></html>