The Crown Colony · event 2 of 9

1842

The Treaty of Nanking. Hong Kong Island is ceded in perpetuity at the end of the First Opium War.

The The Crown Colony era

  1. 26 January 1841
  2. 1842
  3. 1860
  4. 1888
  5. 1894
  6. 1898
  7. 1904
  8. 1911
  9. 1925–26

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