Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery

Appendices

1. Time Line of Hong Kong History 1839 High Commissioner Lin Tse-hu appointed to stamp out the drugs trade in Canton. 1840 The beginning of the First Opium War. 1841 Treaty of Nanking. The treaty ports of Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai opened for international commerce. Hong Kong ceded to the British. Sir Henry Pottinger, first governor. 1843 Governor, Sir John F. Davis. Queen’s Road laid out. 1845 The establishment of the Ice House Company. The China Mail first published. P. & O. Steam Navigation Co. established monthly mail route. 1846 The Hong Kong Club opened. 1848 Governor, Sir George Bonham. Opening of the gold fields in the Sacramento Valley, California. American whalers began refitting in Hong Kong. 1849 Defeat of the pirate fleets of Chui Apou and Shap-ng-tsai. Opening of St. John’s Cathedral. 1851 The Cricket Club established. 1852 The Taiping Rebellion refugees started to arrive in Hong Kong. 1853 The beginning of regulated coolie emigration. 1854 Governor, Sir John Bowring. U.S. Squadron under Commander Matthew C. Perry arrived on the way to Japan. 1857 The beginning of the Second Opium War. Establishment of the Aberdeen Docks. 1858 The Treaty of Tientsin signed, legalizing opium sales in China. 1859 Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson. 1860 The sacking of the Summer Palace in Beijing. Convention of Peking ratified, formalizing lease of the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island to Britain in perpetuity. 1861 Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce founded. The Botanical Gardens laid out. Appendices Lim_txt.indd 543 28/12/2010 4:17 PM 544 1864 Gas street lighting introduced. 1865 The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation founded. 1866 The Hong Kong Mint opened. Governor, Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell. 1867 The blockade of Hong Kong by Chinese customs cruisers. 1868 Mint closed. Tung Wah Hospital founded. 1869 Visit of Duke of Edinburgh and royal opening of City Hall. 1870 Completion of submarine telegraphic link to China. 1872 Governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy. 1873 Major typhoon. 1874 Rev. James Legge appointed professor of Chinese at Oxford University. 1877 Governor, Sir John Pope Hennessy. Ng Choy, first Chinese barrister admitted to the bar. 1878 Secular system of education introduced to government schools. Grant-in-aid schools to have freedom of religious instruction. 1879 First rickshaw. Appointment of Ng Choy as unofficial member of the Legislative Council. 1881 Publication of Chadwick’s report on sanitary conditions in Hong Kong. 1884 Sino-French War sparked riots in the colony. 1887 Governor, Sir George William des Voeux. College of Medicine for the Chinese. Sun Yat Sen became an early student. 1888 Peak tram. 1890 Duke of Connaught laid foundation stone for Sir Catchick Paul Chater’s praya reclamation. 1891 Governor, Sir Willam Robinson. 1892 Gas lighting introduced to Kowloon. 1894 Outbreak of bubonic plague. 1898 The Convention of Peking. Ninety-nine-year lease of New Territories to Britain. Governor, Sir Henry Blake. 1900 British Expeditionary Force against the Boxers. 1904 Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan. Electric tramways on Hong Kong Island. 1907 Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard. Appendix 1 Lim_txt.indd 544 28/12/2010 4:17 PM 545 1906 Worst typhoon in Hong Kong’s history. 1910 Opium divans in Hong Kong closed. First car seen in Hong Kong. 1911 Kowloon-Canton railway opens. First aeroplane flight. 1912 Abdication of Puyi, the last emperor of the Ching dynasty. Supreme Court Building (now the Legislative Council Building). Opening of the University of Hong Kong. Governor, Sir Francis Henry May. 1918 Happy Valley racecourse fire. End of First World War. 1919 Governor, Sir Reginald Stubbs. 1922 Seamen’s strike in Hong Kong. 1925 Death of Sun Yat Sen. Chiang Kai-shek became leader of the Kuomingtang. The general strike and boycott in Hong Kong. 1925 Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi. 1932 The Japanese annexation of Manchuria. 1935 Governor, Sir Alexander Caldicott. The Long March ending at Yan’an. 1937 Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote. The beginning of the Japanese invasion in China with the capture of the Marco Polo Bridge. 1939 The beginning of the Second World War in Europe. 1941 Governor, Sir Mark Young. 1942 Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. Surrender of British Forces to the Japanese. 1945 Surrender of Japanese forces. British rule resumes. 1947 Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham. 1949 Founding of the People’s Republic of China headed by Mao Tse-tung. 1958 Governor, Sir Robert Black. 1964 Governor, Sir David Trench. 1967 The beginning of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution. Riots and explosive...