Hong Kong profile - Timeline | hong kong history
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A chronology of key events:
1842 - China cedes Hong Kong island to Britain after the First Opium War. Over the decades, thousands of Chinese migrants fleeing domestic upheavals settle in the colony.
1860 - The Convention of Peking cedes Kowloon formally to Britain.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Hong Kong was already a busy port in the 1890s, when this picture was taken after the passing of a damaging typhoon1898 - China leases the New Territories together with 235 islands to Britain for 99 years from 1 July.
1937 - With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Hong Kong becomes a refuge for thousands of mainland Chinese fleeing before the advancing Japanese.
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