The Crown Colony · event 5 of 9

1894

The plague. Bubonic plague breaks out in Tai Ping Shan, killing over 2,500 people. The government demolishes the entire district; Blake Garden marks the cleared ground.

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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