The Crown Colony · event 6 of 9

1898

The New Territories lease. Britain leases the land north of Kowloon for 99 years, to 30 June 1997 — the date that will determine everything afterwards. The clans resist in the Six-Day War and lose.

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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