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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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1842-08-04 · 南京
1842年8月4日,砵甸乍率領大批艦船與士兵往北攻打中國沿海及沿江城鎮,同日抵達南京城外。
On 4 August 1842, Pottinger led a large fleet and troops north to attack China's coastal and riverside towns, arriving outside Nanjing on the same day.
The Treaty of Nanking stipulated that the Qing court must cede Hong Kong Island in perpetuity to the British monarch and his successors to possess and govern, and that the British side might also enact its own laws, whereby Hong Kong Island formally became a British cession.
On 29 August 1842, the Chinese negotiators Qiying and Yilibu, together with the British representative Pottinger, signed the Treaty of Nanking on board the anchored British warship HMS Cornwallis on the Yangtze River at Xiaguan, Nanjing.
China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanking on 29 August 1842 aboard the British warship HMS Cornwallis, whose Article III provided for the cession of Hong Kong Island to Britain.