Timeline of Hong Kong history
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| 221 BC | First records in Chinese history of the territory now known as Hong Kong | ||||
| AD 901 | Puntis begin to settle in Hong Kong | ||||
| 1550 | Hong Kong Village built | ||||
| 1841 | Hong Kong becomes a free port | ||||
| 1842 | Britain rules Hong Kong Island. 155 years of colonial rule starts | ||||
| 1843 | The Legislative Council and the Executive Council formed | ||||
| 1847 | The Kowloon Walled City built | ||||
| 1852 | First reclamation project begins in Sheung Wan on Hong Kong island | China cedes Kowloon south of Boundary Street to Britain via the Convention of Peking | |||
| 1860 | Britain rules Kowloon south of Boundary Street | ||||
| 1898 | Britain rules New Territories and New Kowloon | ||||
| 1912 | First university in Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, opened | The Republic of China set up in Nanking; the Qing Dynasty overthrown | |||
| 1926 | First Chinese unofficial member appointed to the Executive Council | ||||
| 1941 | Japan rules Hong Kong | Pearl Harbor incident; U.S. enters World War II | |||
| 1945 | Japanese rule in Hong Kong ends | U.S drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends; United Nations formed | |||
| 1948 | Social Welfare Department formed | ||||
| 1949 | The People's Republic of China established in Beijing (Peking) | ||||
| 1952 | Grantham Training College built | ||||
| 1945 | First resettlement estate built | ||||
| 1953 | December 25: major fire in Shek Kip Mei destroyed all the makeshift homes of the immigrants from Mainland China that had fled to Hong Kong, leaving 53,000 people homeless. | ||||
| 1955 | Han Tomb discovered in Lee Cheng Uk | ||||
| 1961 | Government Low Cost Housing Programme introduced | ||||
| 1962 | Sir Robert Black College built | Cuban Missile Crisis | |||
| 1967 | Wireless television broadcast begins | First heart transplant performed in South Africa | |||
| 1971 | Six-year free primary education introduced | ||||
| 1976 | Home Ownership Scheme introduced | ||||
| 1978 | Nine-year free education introduced | Open-door policy begins in mainland China | |||
| 1984 | Sino-British Joint Declaration signed | ||||
| 1990 | Basic Law proclaimed | ||||
| 1996 | Tung Chee Hwa elected as the first Chief Executive | ||||
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| 1998 | Kai Tak International Airport closed; replaced by Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok | ||||
| 2003 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak killing nearly 300 | ||||
| 2005 | Tung Chee Hwa resigned; Donald Tsang elected as the 2nd Chief Executive of HKSAR | ||||
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