The Crown Colony · event 3 of 9

1860

Kowloon is ceded. The Convention of Peking adds the Kowloon peninsula south of Boundary Street after the Second 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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