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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. Hong Kong was already a busy port in the 1890s, when this picture was taken after the passing of a damaging typhoon 1898 - 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. 1941 - Japan occupies Hong Kong. Food shortages impel many residents to flee to mainland China. The population drops from 1.6m in 1941 to 650,000 by the end of the Second World War. 1946 - Britain re-establishes civil government. Hundreds of thousands of former residents return, to be joined over next few years by refugees fleeing the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists i

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 source, 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 typhoon 1898 - 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 re

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