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Hong Kong in the 1930s. In 1898, the British sought to extend Hong Kong for defence. After negotiations began in April 1898, with the British Minister in Beijing, Sir Claude MacDonald, representing Britain, and diplomat Li Hongzhang leading the Chinese, the Second Convention of Peking was signed on 9 June.
Reunification of Hong Kong" [12] (Chinese: 香港回歸) was used by a minority of pro-Beijing politicians, lawyers and newspapers during Sino-British negotiations in 1983 and 1984, [13] and gradually became mainstream in Hong Kong by early 1997 at the latest.
Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
Hong Kong–United Kingdom relations are the international relations between the post-colonial Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 to 1941 and again from 1945 to 1997 when sovereignty was handed over to China.
British Hong Kong — former British colony in Hong Kong from 1841 to 1997, excluding the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (1941−1945). The main article for this category is British Hong Kong . Subcategories
The Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire in 1842 through the Treaty of Nanjing, ending the First Opium War. Hong Kong then became a British crown colony. [2] Britain also won the Second Opium War, forcing the Qing Empire to cede Kowloon in 1860, while leasing the New Territories for 99 years from 1898. [3] [4]
Britain acquired Hong Kong Island in 1842, Kowloon Peninsula in 1860, and leased the New Territories rent-free [1] in 1898.. The Convention between the United Kingdom and China, Respecting an Extension of Hong Kong Territory, [2] commonly known as the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory or the Second Convention of Peking, was a lease and unequal treaty signed between Qing China ...
(23:59:00-23:59:47 Hong Kong Time/16:59:00-16:59:47 London Time) – Exactly one minute before midnight the Flag of the United Kingdom and the flag of British Hong Kong were slowly lowered to the British national anthem "God Save the Queen", symbolising the end of British colonial rule in Hong Kong as very final and last time. A hiatus of ...