The Crown Colony · event 1 of 9

26 January 1841

The British landing. Royal Navy forces raise the flag at Possession Point on Hong Kong Island. The waterline was where the street of that name now runs, several hundred metres inland after reclamation.

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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