In the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, a person born on February 29 legally attains the age of 18 on March 1 in the relevant year.

With the authorisation of the Central People ’ s Government of the PRC, Hong Kong also concluded 12 bilateral agreements with foreign states on air services, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance and visa abolition during the year.

For example the largest ferry operator in the world, Turbojet ( Hong Kong ) still operate 20 + year old Boeing Jetfoils because they remain the industry benchmark for passenger comfort in rough seas.

In Hong Kong, Schools Music Festival is held every year for school students to compete in different music classes.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.

The STDM introduced western-style games and modernised the marine transport between Macau and Hong Kong, bringing millions of gamblers from Hong Kong every year.

This virus was first detected in Hong Kong in early 1968, and spread to the United States later that year.

Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, and the same year the British government published a review of the Dependent Territories.

Just a year later, UNHCR was tasked with dealing with Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, while also responding Algerian refugees who had fled to Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of Algeria's war for independence.

* May – The bubonic plague breaks out in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong ( by the end of the year, the death toll is 2, 552 people ).

However, it is believed that the year might be in 1375, not in the Yuan Dynasty, but in the 8th year of Emperor Hong Wu.

These range from small churches in Poland, Brasil or Hong Kong to key basilicas at Lourdes and Fatima with millions of pilgrims per year.

By the year 600, there were major build ups of silt on the bottom of the Hong Gou canal, obstructing river barges whose drafts were too deep for its waters.

In 1995 Kevin Bishop and Annabel Roberts spent four months bicycling the entire route of the Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou and on to Hong Kong from September to December of that year, taking photographs and collecting information.

* This is the year that the Hong Kong MTR South Island Line east section is expected to be completed.

Hong Kong and Egypt have most days of holidays per year.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange raised 30. 9 billion in 2011 as the top course for the third year in a row, while New York raised 30. 7 billion.

As Vietnam descended into armed conflict — rival factions clashed with each other and also with the remaining French — Bảo Đại left Vietnam after a year in his " advisory " role, living in both Hong Kong and China.

A prominent example is Chu Hai College, which the Hong Kong SAR government officially recognized its academic degree programmes in May 2004, and registered as an " Approved Post-secondary College " with the Hong Kong SAR government since July of the same year.

A 2012 Wall St. Journal editorial stated, " One reason the U. S. economy isn't creating enough jobs is that it's not creating enough employers ... For the third year in a row the world's leading exchange for new stock offerings was located not in New York, but in Hong Kong ...

In addition, national yo-yo contests, without regionals, are held every year by Mexico, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, France, Germany, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Australia.

* The men's record is held by Dan Magness of England, a 25 year old professional freestyler, who kept a regulation football aloft for 26 hours using just his feet, legs, shoulders and head ; he completed the feat-which took place in Hong Kong, in June 2010.

A year later, the couple had their first child, Kong Li ( 孔鯉 ), both of whom Confucius was to abandon to develop his ideologies.

The ape reappeared the following year in the sequel Donkey Kong Junior, where Donkey Kong is taken captive and locked in a cage by the renamed Mario, while Donkey Kong Junior sets out to rescue him.

However, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire interprets events and sources differently, believing that Alboin married Chlothsind when already a king in or shortly before 561, the year of Chlothar's death.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.

Over a year later, on May 29, 1975, the University Board of Trustees authorized a change in policy to admit " students of any race ," a move that occurred shortly before the announcement of the Supreme Court decision in Runyon v. McCrary ( 427 U. S. 160 ), which prohibited racial exclusion in private schools.

Italy and Britain ratified the Stabilization and Association Agreement shortly thereafter, while the ten EU countries that were admitted to membership that year ratified it en masse at a European Summit.

The memoir was diary entries, poems, letters, drawings, personal photos, and lyric compositions spanning from Love's childhood up until the year 2006, shortly after her release from a six-month rehab sentence.

The term started to get its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's second civil war, making himself the first Dictator in more than a century ( during which the office was ostensibly abolished ) as well as de facto eliminating the time limit and need of senatorial acclamation, although he avoided a major constitutional crisis by resigning the office after about one year due to poor health, dying shortly after.

Eiffel had been working on the project for little more than a year when the company suspended payments of interest on 14 December 1888, and shortly afterwards was put into liquidation.

In 1849, shortly after the revolutions of the previous year, Molinari published two works: an essay, " The Production of Security ", and a book, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, describing how a market in justice and protection could advantageously replace the state.

Radek was part of the Left Opposition from 1923, writing his famed article ' Leon Trotsky: Organizer of Victory ' shortly after Lenin's stroke in January of that year.

In August of that year he was wounded in the neck, and shortly after he took pilot training lessons.

It was planned for Jones to appear with the Penguins the following year but he suffered a stroke while rehearsing with the group, and died shortly thereafter.

William assumed power in Normandy, and shortly after the battle promulgated the Truce of God throughout his duchy, in an effort to limit warfare and violence by restricting the days of the year on which fighting was permitted.

Zoom left the group shortly thereafter in 1986, the same year in which the feature-length documentary film, X: The Unheard Music was released.

Elected shortly after the death of Agatho, Leo was not consecrated for over a year and a half.

There is no evidence to suggest that they engaged in a sexual relationship until very shortly before their marriage ; Henry's love letters to Anne seem to suggest that their love affair remained unconsummated for much of their seven year courtship.

A year after publishing a collection of brief lives, Portraits in Miniature ( 1931 ), Lytton Strachey died ; shortly afterwards Carrington shot herself.

Later that year he began work on Mahogany ( 1975 ), starring Diana Ross, but was fired by Motown head Berry Gordy shortly after production began.

However, the Dow began an upward trend shortly after the attacks and quickly regained all lost ground to close above the 10, 000 level for the year.

Averroes was not reinstated until shortly before his death in the year 1198 AD.

The following year, British runner Paula Radcliffe set the women's world record in 2: 15: 25 ( later briefly downgraded to " world best " by the IAAF as it was achieved in a mixed race, but restored to the title of " world Record " shortly thereafter ).

As his final work, the book was published shortly after his death in March 1982 following a series of strokes, although it was written the previous year.

After the Labour Party lost the general election later that year, he was made chairman of Bevan's ' Keep Left ' group, but shortly thereafter he distanced himself from Bevan.

Sometime shortly before the year 1160 he was inspired by a series of events, firstly, after hearing a sermon on the life of St. Alexius, secondly, when rejection of transubstantiation was made a capital crime, thirdly, the sudden and unexpected death of a friend during an evening meal.

The work was finished the following year and was premiered shortly after.

Amnesty International reported that at least 100 Falun Gong practitioners were believed to have been killed in the 2008 calendar year, either in custody or shortly after their release.