Britain Claims Hong Kong
February 10, 1841
Captain Elliot and Chinese official Qishan agreed, in a preliminary convention during the First Opium War, to cede Hong Kong Island to Britain. Both governments repudiated the deal as too generous. The island was occupied anyway. The Treaty of Nanking would make it official, and a fishing village was born that would become a great city.
In context
Also in 1841 (3 other events on record)
- Elphinstone's Catastrophe · Central Asia · War
- Harrison Dies in Office · North America · Politics
- Whig Party Collapse · North America · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Politics
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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