Hong Kong History Research
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A living archive of Hong Kong history, focused on 1841 to today. Most pages are still AI drafts (tagged ai-draft) that are being checked against primary sources, scholarship and photographs; sourced articles come from specialist historians and archives. Updated automatically every 3 hours.
The Full Story, Era by Era
A chronological backbone from prehistory to today. These pages are AI drafts written from general knowledge (tagged ai-draft) and are replaced or corrected as sourced material arrives.
| Era | Period |
|---|---|
| Prehistory and early settlement | to 214 BCE |
| Imperial frontier: Qin to Tang | 214 BCE-960 |
| Song and Yuan: salt, pearls and clans | 960-1368 |
| Ming and Qing coast: pirates, the Great Clearance, forts | 1368-1800 |
| Canton trade and the First Opium War | 1800-1842 |
| The early colony | 1842-1860 |
| Kowloon and the Victorian colony | 1860-1898 |
| The New Territories lease and the early 20th century | 1898-1918 |
| Interwar Hong Kong: strikes, boycotts and growth | 1919-1941 |
| Battle of Hong Kong and the Japanese occupation | 1941-1945 |
| Postwar recovery, refugees and industrialisation | 1945-1966 |
| Riots and the MacLehose reforms | 1966-1982 |
| Sino-British negotiations and the transition | 1982-1997 |
| The early HKSAR | 1997-2008 |
| Political contention and protest | 2008-2020 |
| The National Security Law era | 2020-present |
Browse by Era (sourced articles)
| Era | Key Events |
|---|---|
| 1841–1860 | British acquisition, First Opium War |
| 1941–1945 | Japanese Occupation, Battle of Hong Kong |
| 1967 | Leftist Riots |
| 1984 | Sino-British Joint Declaration |
| 1997 | Handover, establishment of HKSAR |
| 2019 | Protests |
Browse by Topic
Colonial Administration · WWII & Japanese Occupation · 1997 Handover · Daily Life · Architecture & Heritage · Japanese Occupation
Full Archive
- 📅 Timeline — dated historical events, sorted chronologically
- ⚖️ Angles — analysis, photographs, and perspectives
- 👤 People and 📍 Places — AI-drafted reference pages
- ❌ Needs correction — drafts where a search fact-check found an error
Sources: HK History Centre · Gwulo Old HK · Battle for HK · Industrial History HK · Historical Photos HK