War & the Refugee City · event 1 of 9

25 December 1941

The surrender. Hong Kong falls to Japan after eighteen days of fighting, on Christmas Day. The occupation lasts three years and eight months and the population falls from 1.6 million to 600,000.

The War & the Refugee City era

  1. 25 December 1941
  2. 1945
  3. 1949
  4. 25 December 1953
  5. 1966
  6. 1967
  7. 1972
  8. 1974
  9. 1979

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