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The following is a timeline of the history of Hong Kong: Seven years after the first flight of a heavier-than-air controlled aeroplane in 1903, planes were already flying in Hong Kong. ... Alternative meanings: Timeline is a 1999 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel. ... This article details the history of Hong Kong. ...

Year	Hong Kong	China	Britain	World
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
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 Britan via the Convention of Peking
1860	Britain rules Kowloon south of Boundary Street
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 Peiping (renamed back to Peking, now Beijing)
1952	Grantham Training College built
1945	First resettlement estate built
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
1997	Hong Kong transferred to the People's Republic of China; first Special Administrative Region government formed

A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links Union Flag / Union Jack: Flag of the United Kingdom For more information, see Court of the Lord Lyon, Flags. ... The World in plate carrée projection The World In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is Age of Man. ... Punti refers to the local inhibitants in Hong Kong. ... A free port (porto franco) or free zone (US: Foreign-Trade Zone) is a port or area with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. ... Legislative Council Building The Legislative Council of Hong Kong (立法會, abbreviated LegCo) is the legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Executive Council (ExCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China is an organ in the Executive branch of the political structure of Hong Kong. ... The Kowloon Walled City (九龍城寨, originally known as 九龍寨城) was an interesting anomaly in Hong Kongs colonial history. ... Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. ... Sheung Wan is an area in Hong Kong, located in the north of Hong Kong Island, in Central and Western district. ... Hong Kong Island (香港島, colloquially the Island side) is the island where the colonial settlement of the Hong Kong territory, Victoria City, was founded. ... Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street in Kowloon, Hong Kong, Historically it marked the boundary between the southern part of Kowloon, ceded by Qing China to Great Britain in 1860, and the northern part of Kowloon ( New Kowloon), which remained part of China until it was leased... The Convention of Peking (October 18, 1860), also known as the First Convention of Peking, was a treaty between the Qing Government of China and the British Empire, and between China and France, and China and Russia. ... In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon (九龍, Mandarin: Jiulong, lit. ... The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Traditional Chinese: 香港大學; Simplified Chinese: 香港大学; pinyin: XiānggÇŽng Dàxué) is an English-language medium university and the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong SAR. Its motto is the Latin phrase Sapientia et Virtus (明德格物 ), meaning wisdom and virtue or sometimes cited as Foresight & Social... National motto: None Official language Mandarin Chinese Capital and largest city Taipei President Chen Shui-bian Premier Frank Hsieh Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 138th 35,980 km² 2. ... Nanjing (Chinese: 南京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Nan-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Nanking), is the capital of Chinas Jiangsu province and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and culture. ... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qÄ«ng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing... The Imperial Japanese Navy made its attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: Immense human sacrifice, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons - the atom bomb being the ultimate. ... Main keep of Hiroshima Castle The city of Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japans islands. ... Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) Nagasaki  listen? (長崎市; -shi, literally long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, was created for the brick tomb, accompanied by an exhibition hall located adjacent to it. ... Home Ownership Scheme (居者有其屋計劃), is a housing programme in Hong Kong, selling of apartment flats at a price lower than the market, with subsidies on the land value by the government. ... The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong (The Joint Declaration), was signed by the Prime Ministers of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the United Kingdom (UK) governments on December 19, 1984 in Beijing. ... This is a list of articles about the fundamental constitutional laws, known as Basic Laws, of various jurisdictions. ... Tung Chee Hwa Tung Chee Hwa (Traditional Chinese: 董建華; Simplified Chinese: 董建华; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: dung2 gin3 wa4; Mandarin Pinyin: DÇ’ng Jiànhuá) (born July 7, 1937, or the 29th day of the 5th month in the Chinese calendar) was the first elected Chief Executive (July 1, 1997–March 12, 2005... Chief Executive may refer to: Chief Executive of Hong Kong Chief Executive of Macau Chief Executive Officer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A Special Administrative Region (SAR) (Simplified Chinese: 特别行政区; Traditional Chinese: 特別行政區; pinyin: tèbié xíngzhèngqÅ«; Cantonese IPA: /tɐk6piːt6 hɐŋ4tsɪŋ3kʰɵy1/; Jyutping: dak6bit6 hang4zing3keoi1; Yale: dahkbiht hàhngjingkeÅ«i) is a political subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

See also

• History of Hong Kong