1. The name of the land that Britain took over in Hong Kong was called the New Territories.
2. Britain obtained a 99 year lease on the Lantau Island and the Adjecent Northern Islands.
3. They used it for textile exports and trading. They also found cheap labour and wanted the land for cemetary and military use.
4. Hong Kong made The New Territories an official colony in 1983.
5. In 1894 the Third deadly pandemic of the bubonic plague spread from China to Hong Kong killing from 50 000 - 100 000 people.
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