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Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.
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Hong Kong Island
Second largest island in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), as of 2023. It is the second largest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
First Opium War
1839–1842 war between Britain and China
The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Chinese Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the opium trade by seizing private…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)