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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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《香港志·自然》自然資源與生態 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology
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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
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On 6 March 1841, the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty rebuked Britain for occupying Hong Kong and issuing false proclamations without authorisation, and appointed the military officers Yang Fang and Yishan to go south to Guangzhou and mobilise troops to retake Hong Kong Island.
In March 1842, the British Plenipotentiary in China, Pottinger, submitted a report mentioning that a group of propertied Chinese merchants originally from Guangzhou and Macau had moved to settle in Hong Kong.
On 4 January 1843, the British government by Order in Council moved the Criminal and Admiralty Court for China, established in Canton in 1833, to Hong Kong; the court had jurisdiction over Hong Kong Island and a 100-mile zone of the Chinese mainland and coast, hearing criminal cases of British subjects in the area.
The Chinese Repository was first published in Guangzhou on 31 May 1832; it later moved to Hong Kong for printing in 1844 and ceased publication in December 1852.
In 1846, Li Ji, owner of the Jilong ginger candy factory in Guangzhou, moved his production facilities to Hong Kong, becoming the first ginger candy manufacturer in the territory.
On 19 October 1848, Jardine Matheson and Dent & Co., together with several foreign firms in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, jointly funded the formation of the Hong Kong and Canton Steam Packet Company, Hong Kong's first steamship enterprise; the following spring it launched a regular service between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, but ceased operations in 1854.
From 1853 to 1855, the United States Navy conducted bird surveys in the vicinity of Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou; the records were compiled by the American ornithologist John Cassin and published.
On 14 April 1853, the Hong Kong firm Turner & Co. chartered the "Emigrant", which set sail from Whampoa in Guangzhou carrying 250 Chinese labourers, some of whom died during the voyage.
On 8 October 1856, the Arrow incident broke out in Guangzhou, after which anti-British sentiment among Hong Kong Chinese ran high, and workers in many trades stopped work one after another and returned to their places of origin.
On 8 October 1856, a Chinese sailing vessel named the Arrow was seized at Whampoa in Canton by Qing naval forces on suspicion of smuggling; the vessel had previously been registered in Hong Kong, and the incident later became the pretext for the British attack on Canton and triggered the Second Opium War.
In 1858, two occupation proposals were endorsed by the British government: Major General Stubbins, commander of the British forces in Guangzhou, advocated taking Stonecutters Island; Captain Hall of the warship 'Calcutta' proposed taking the Kowloon peninsula.
According to an 1859 account by nuns, dying infants in the Canton hospital were taken to Hong Kong, and one franc was paid for each infant transported.
On 20 March 1860, the British Consul in Canton, Harry Parkes, together with the Governor-General of Liangguang, Lao Chongguang, completed the signing of the Lease of Kowloon, also known as the Lao Chongguang-Parkes Agreement, which provided that the British side, for 500 taels of silver per year, obtained the lease of the Kowloon Peninsula from the southern end of Kowloon Battery to the northern end of Stonecutters Island, together with Stonecutters Island.
On 21 March 1860, with Guangzhou then under the control of the Anglo-French forces, the British Consul in Guangzhou, Parkes, demanded that the Governor-General of Liangguang, Lao Chongguang, sign a Kowloon lease document he had drafted in advance, and Lao Chongguang was forced to comply.
From October 1860 to June 1898, the Kowloon Inspection Office of Xin'an County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Qing dynasty, continuously administered the area of present-day the New Territories.
The Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company completed its registration on 20 October 1865 and operated shipping services connecting Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.
In 1882, eleven Methodist believers from Guangzhou and Foshan arrived in Hong Kong and opened a school on Wellington Street; by 1884 the school had become a gospel hall named the Wesleyan Church.
In October 1890, the number of observation stations in the "Meteorological Records of the China Coast" increased to 17, covering places including Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nagasaki and Vladivostok.
On 13, 16 and 21 March 1895, Wong Wing-sheung, Tse Tsan-tai, Yeung Ku-wan, Sun Yat-sen and others held secret meetings at the Hon Hang Hong to discuss a plan to attack the city of Guangzhou.
On 31 October 1895, only two days after arriving in Hong Kong following the failure of the Guangzhou uprising, Sun Yat-sen left Hong Kong for Japan together with Chan Siu-bak and Zheng Shiliang in order to avoid extradition to the Qing government by the Hong Kong authorities.
In 1897, among the Guangdong-born Chinese in Hong Kong, those from Guangzhou Prefecture made up 79.3%, with Panyu, Dongguan, Nanhai, Xin'an and Xinhui accounting for 13.9%, 13.7%, 11.4%, 11.0% and 9.3% respectively.