Timeline of Hong Kong history
This article is part of a series on the
History of Hong Kong
Timeline
Prehistoric
Imperial
(221 BC – 1800s)
Bao'an County and Xin'an County
British Hong Kong
(1841–1941, 1945–1997)
Colonial
(1800s–1930s)
Convention of Chuenpi
Treaty of Nanking
Convention of Peking
Convention for the Extension of
Hong Kong Territory
Japanese occupation (1941–1945)
(1940s)
1950s
1960s
(
1967 riots
)
1970s
1980s
1990s
Retrocession to China
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
(since 1997)
2000s
2010s
2020s
2019–20 protests
COVID-19 pandemic
National security law (
2020
,
2024
)
2021 electoral reform
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