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1517 Portuguese
merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials through an interpreter at Pearl River estuary and landed at Hong Kong.
1841 Charles Elliot of Britain
and Kei Sin of Qing signed the Convention of Chuenpeh. A navy official Edward Belcher led a fleet to land Hong Kong.
1841 The United Kingdom
occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500.
1842 British Empire
annexes Hong Kong
1894 outbreak of bubonic plague
in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong. The disease killed a total of 2,552 people in the territory that year
1906 Typhoon with tsunami
kills an estimated 10,000 persons in Hong Kong.
1941 World War II: British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong.
1947 Philippine plane crashes in Hong Kong with $5 million worth of gold and money
1962 Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, at least 130 die and more than 600 are wounded.
1967 British
troops and Chinese
demonstrators clash on the border of China
and Hong Kong during the Hong Kong Riots.
1972 RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
1977 Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.
1977 Hong Kong police forces attack the ICAC headquarters.
1984 November 25 – An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
1984 The United Kingdom
and the People's Republic of China
sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
1984 The People's Republic of China
and United Kingdom
sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
1989 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnam
ese refugees.
1992 The trial of 14 South Vietnamese
accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese
begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).
1997 The first book in the award winning ''Harry Potter'' series by J. K. Rowling is published.
assumes sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong.]]
1997 The United Kingdom
hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
.
1997 Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza
strain.
1999 Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 crashes in Hong Kong.
2000 The first known case of the ILOVEYOU worm is found on computers in Hong Kong. It is considered one of the most destructive worms ever.
2004 Thousands of people in Hong Kong take to the streets to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre
.
2005 Tung Chee Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, resigns.
2005 The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigns for participating in the Chief Executive Election last July. As a result, Henry Tang and Michael Suen become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.
2005 Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy law
s are unconstitutional.
2005 Some 250,000 people in Hong Kong protest for democracy.
2005 The World Trade Organization
6th ministerial conference concludes in Hong Kong with a limited trade deal being ratified.
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