1834-08-21 · 珠江口
清道光十四年八月二十一日,英國派駐中國的首位商務監督律勞卑向本國政府發出書函,提出動用軍事力量奪取位於珠江口東面的香港島。
On the twenty-first day of the eighth month of the fourteenth year of the Daoguang reign of the Qing dynasty, Lord Napier, the first British Superintendent of Trade in China, sent a letter to his government proposing the use of military force to seize Hong Kong Island, located east of the Pearl River estuary.
來源 《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事)(香港地方志中心) · p.122