Hong Kong handover: timeline
Twenty years ago today, Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule
1842: Hong Kong was ceded “in perpetuity” – for good – to Britain after China lost the first opium war. This is how the Manchester Guardian told its readers the news.
1860: Peace was short lived though. A second opium war, and another defeat for China, saw the British take the Kowloon peninsula.
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