Timeline

February 2019 – Hong Kong’s Security Bureau submits a paper to the city’s legislature proposing amendments to extradition laws that would provide for case-by-case extraditions to countries, including mainland China, beyond the 20 states with which Hong Kong already has treaties.

March 31 - Thousands take to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against the proposed extradition bill.

April 3 – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s government introduces amendments to Hong Kong’s extradition laws that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial.

April 28 – Tens of thousands of people march on Hong Kong’s city assembly building, the Legislative Council, to demand the scrapping of the proposed amendments to the extradition laws.

May 11 – Scuffles break out in Hong Kong’s legislature between pro-democracy lawmakers and those loyal to Beijing over the extradition bill.

May 21 – Lam says her administration is determined to push the bill through the legislature.

May 30 – Hong Kong introduces concessions to the extradition bill, including limiting the scope of extraditable offences. Critics say they are not enough.

June 6 – More than 3,000 Hong Kong lawyers take to the streets dressed in black in a rare protest march against the extradition law.

June 9 - More than half a million take to the streets in protest.

June 12 – Police fire rubber bullets and tear gas during the city’s largest and most violent protests in decades. Government offices are shut for the rest of the week.

June 15 – Lam indefinitely delays the proposed extradition law.

July 1 - Protesters storm the Legislative Council on the 22nd anniversary of the handover from British to Chinese rule, destroying pictures and daubing walls with graffiti.

July 9 - Lam says the extradition bill is dead and that government work on the legislation had been a “total failure”.

July 21 - Men, clad in white T-shirts and some armed with poles, flood into rural Yuen Long station and storm a train, attacking passengers and passers-by, including members of the media, after several thousand activists surrounded China’s representative office in the city earlier in the day, and clashed with police.

July 30 - Forty-four activists are charged with rioting, the first time this charge has been used during these protests.

Aug. 9 - China’s aviation regulator demands Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific suspend personnel who have taken part in the protests. The airline suspends a pilot, one of 44 charged with rioting the month before, the next day.

Aug. 14 - Police and protesters clash at Hong Kong’s international airport after flights were disrupted for a second day. The airport resumed operations later that day, rescheduling hundreds of flights.

Aug. 21 - China’s biggest e-commerce company Alibaba delays its up to $15 billion listing in Hong Kong, initially set for late August.

Sept. 2 - Lam says she has caused “unforgivable havoc” by igniting the political crisis engulfing the city and would quit if she had a choice, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters of remarks she made to a group of businesspeople.

Sept. 3 - Lam says she had never asked the Chinese government to let her resign to end the city’s political crisis, responding to the Reuters report.

Sept. 4 - Lam announces formal withdrawal of controversial extradition bill. Critics say it is too little, too late.

Sept. 7 - Police fire tear gas for a second consecutive night after fending off airport protests.

Sept. 8 - Security forces fire tear gas to disperse protesters in upmarket Causeway Bay shopping district.

Sept. 17 - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam pledges to hold talks with the community to try to ease tensions.

Sept. 22 - Hong Kong police fire tear gas to break up pro-democracy demonstrators who trashed fittings at a railway station and shopping mall.

Sept. 26 - Hong Kong protesters trap city leader Carrie Lam in a stadium for hours after she holds her first “open dialogue” with the people.

Oct. 1 - City rocked by the most widespread unrest since the start of the protests, as China’s Communist Party rulers celebrate 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.

Oct. 4 - Carrie Lam invoked the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to impose an anti-mask law to ban wearing face masks in public gatherings, attempting to curb the ongoing protests. The enactment of the law was followed by continued demonstrations as they showed up in various districts in Hong Kong, blocking major thoroughfares, vandalizing shops perceived to be pro-Beijing and paralyzing the MTR system.

Oct. 14 - Thousands of protesters rallied at Chater Garden to support the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which was subsequently passed unanimously by the US House of Representatives.

Oct. 20 - Jimmy Sham was attacked allegedly by South Asians. Some ethnic minorities stood in solidarity with the protesters outside the mansion. The gates of the mosque were sprayed with blue-dyed water by a water cannon truck during police clearance, an act that was condemned by the Muslim community in Hong Kong.

Nov. 2 - A mostly peaceful but unapproved protest at Victoria Park saw police quickly responding by employing tear gas. Over 70 were injured over the weekend, including one man hospitalized in critical condition.

Nov. 3 - Police and protesters engaged in violent conflicts inside Cityplaza and New Town Plaza after some protesters allegedly vandalized some shops. Near Cityplaza, politician Andrew Chiu had his ear bitten off by a Chinese main lander who had reportedly knifed three other people. The attacker was then set upon by protesters.

Nov. 9 - Police arrested and charged six pro-democracy lawmakers (while summoning one more lawmaker) for their roles in a 11 May scuffle over the earlier proposed extradition bill. The lawmakers posted bail and were released.

Nov. 11 - In response to Alex Chow's death, protesters planned a city-wide strike , and disrupted transport and traffic in the morning. That morning, police fired live rounds in Sai Wan Ho in eastern Hong Kong Island, in addition to tear gas rounds and pepper spray; a 21-year-old man was wounded after being shot by police, and was sent to hospital. In Kwai Chung, a traffic police officer rammed his motorcycle into a crowd of protesters, resulting in 2 injuries. In addition, a protester poured a flammable liquid onto a person and lit him on fire in Ma On Shan due to vocal arguments. For the first time, during a standoff on 11 November, police shot numerous rounds of tear gas, sponge grenades and rubber bullets into the campuses of universities. The students from Chinese University of Hong Kong confronted the police for two consecutive days

Nov. 12 - Clashes occurred at the university campus, with police firing tear gas and projectiles into the campus, while protesters put up road blocks and threw bricks and petrol bombs. On 11 and 12 November, there were also rare weekday protests in Hong Kong's central business district, including flash mobs during lunchtime. The clashes between police and protesters resulted in businesses closing early.

Nov. 14 - Foreign students have started fleeing Hong Kong as political unrest paralyzed parts of the city for a fourth day in a row. Police fired tear gases at a group of protesters near Polytechnic University in the morning. In the evening, student demonstrators blocked campus entrances in preparation for further clashes with police. Protesters set tollbooths on fire in tunnels connecting Kowloon and Hong Kong.

Nov. 15 - The fifth consecutive day of the AntiELAB protest in Hong Kong. Most of the demonstrators were moved out from Chinese University of Hong Kong. Noon, there is one lane on back and forth of the Tolo Highway were opened. At 8 pm, the lanes of Tolo Highway closed again by the protesters. At 10 pm, some people gathered at Nathan Road and built a "Brick wall" in the middle of the street.

Nov. 16 - The "Hong Kong Pride Parade" was held from 2~6pm at Edinburgh Place. Due to the issued of Letter of Objection by the police, it held as a public meeting, which does not like the demonstration past few years. In the evening, demonstrators gathered at Polytechnic University. They fight against riot police with the petrol bomb and tear gases.

Nov. 17 - Polytechnic University had been a battlefield. In the morning, demonstrators gathered at Polytechnic University. Police fired several tear gases and stand facing with the demonstrators. At 1pm, two "Specialised crowd management vehicles" arrived Chatham Road South, launched water canon to try to drive the demonstrators out. Night fell, Police surrounded Polytechnic University.

Nov. 18 - There were a lot of demonstrators still in the campus and they were trying to leave in the morning. They failed to break though the police line for several times. In addition, The High Court ruled that the Anti-mask Law is unconstitutional. Some representative of secondary school principal arrived Polytechnic University. They pointed out that they were in coordination with the police, such as students under 18 will not be arrest, but the police reserve the right to pursue.

Nov. 19 - Several protesters have attempted to escape from the besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University via underground sewers. Around 300 agreed to exit PolyU in the morning under the escort of former Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang and secondary school principals.