Oracle
In what year was Hong Kong handed over from the United Kingdom to China?
Answer
1,997
1997 uint256
- answer
- the four-digit calendar year, as a number
- source
- Answer from a reputable public source you actually read (Britannica, an official government or parliament site, or a major news archive) and name it.
- missing
- If you cannot establish the fact from a source, report that; do not guess.
- subject
- The question is about a documented fact of politics. The pinned chain and window of this request only timestamp it; the answer is not a reading taken at the pinned block.
- sources
- commonslibrary.parliament.uk, assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, britannica, "hong kong" (https://www.britannica.com/place/hong-kong): sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china on 1 july 1997, britannica, 'hong kong' (britannica.com/place/hong-kong) — states sovereignty was handed over from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., commonslibrary.parliament.uk, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopaedia britannica (britannica.com), article "hong kong", which states the handover of sovereignty from the united kingdom to china occurred on july 1, 1997, encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (britannica.com), read entry stating sovereignty over hong kong transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997, encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (britannica.com), which states hong kong was returned to chinese sovereignty on july 1, 1997, ending british colonial rule., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (britannica.com), which states hong kong's sovereignty was transferred from the united kingdom to china on 1 july 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (britannica.com/place/hong-kong): sovereignty transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997, encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (britannica.com/place/hong-kong): sovereignty transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" (entry on the 1997 handover); bbc news archive on the july 1, 1997 hong kong handover ceremony, encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" / "transfer of hong kong sovereignty": hong kong was returned by the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article, history section: hong kong's transfer of sovereignty from the united kingdom to china occurred on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article, history section: https://www.britannica.com/place/hong-kong — states the transfer of sovereignty from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china occurred on 1 july 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article, history section: sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china on 1 july 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article, section on the 1997 handover: the transfer of sovereignty over hong kong from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china took place on 1 july 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article, section on the 1997 transfer of sovereignty: hong kong was handed over from the united kingdom to china on 1 july 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, "hong kong" article: sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, 'hong kong' (britannica.com/place/hong-kong): sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, 'hong kong' article (https://www.britannica.com/place/hong-kong): 'on july 1, 1997, sovereignty over hong kong was transferred to china.', encyclopaedia britannica, 'hong kong' article, 1997 handover section (https://www.britannica.com/place/hong-kong), encyclopaedia britannica, 'hong kong' — states that sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997, ending 156 years of british colonial rule., encyclopaedia britannica, article "hong kong" (britannica.com/place/hong-kong), which states sovereignty over hong kong passed from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, article "hong kong", section on the transfer of sovereignty: https://www.britannica.com/place/hong-kong (transfer of sovereignty from the united kingdom to china on july 1, 1997), encyclopaedia britannica, article "hong kong": hong kong was returned to china on july 1, 1997, ending british colonial rule., encyclopaedia britannica, article "hong kong": sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china on july 1, 1997., encyclopaedia britannica, article 'hong kong', section 'transfer of sovereignty': hong kong was returned to chinese sovereignty on july 1, 1997, ending 156 years of british colonial rule under the terms of the 1984 sino-british joint declaration., encyclopaedia britannica, entry 'hong kong', states that sovereignty over hong kong was transferred from the united kingdom to the people's republic of china on 1 july 1997., gov.uk, british consulate general hong kong: https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-consulate-general-hong-kong, gov.uk, six-monthly report on hong kong: 1 january to 30 june 2024 (states handover in 1997): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/six-monthly-report-on-hong-kong-january-to-june-2024/six-monthly-report-on-hong-kong-1-january-to-30-june-2024, history.com editors, ‘hong kong returned to china’ (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-1/hong-kong-returned-to-china), hong kong 1997 yearbook, 'the handover and related ceremonies': https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, hong kong 1997 yearbook, ‘the handover and related ceremonies’: https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, hong kong constitutional and mainland affairs bureau, the joint declaration: https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/jd2.htm, hong kong constitutional and mainland affairs bureau, the joint declaration: https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/joint2.htm, hong kong government information services, daily information bulletin (july 1, 1997): https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/dib/0701.htm, hong kong government yearbook 1997, ‘the handover and related ceremonies’: https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, hong kong government, constitutional and mainland affairs bureau, the joint declaration: https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/jd2.htm, hong kong government, constitutional and mainland affairs bureau, the joint declaration: https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/joint2.htm, hong kong government, the joint declaration (https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/jd2.htm), hong kong sar government, the joint declaration: https://www.cmab.gov.hk/en/issues/joint2.htm, hong kong yearbook 1997, 'the handover and related ceremonies' (hong kong government): https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, hong kong yearbook 1997, 'the handover and related ceremonies' (https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm), hong kong yearbook 1997, 'the handover and related ceremonies': https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration — https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration — https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/ (states that on 1 july 1997 the uk transferred sovereignty over hong kong to the prc), house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration — https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/ (states the uk transferred sovereignty over hong kong to the prc on 1 july 1997)., house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration, https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, house of commons library, ‘hong kong: the joint declaration’ (states uk transferred sovereignty on 1 july 1997): https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/; corroborated by hong kong yearbook 1997, ‘the handover and related ceremonies’: https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm, house of lords library, hong kong handover: 20 year anniversary (30 june 2017), https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/lln-2017-0037/, lordslibrary.parliament.uk, the hong kong yearbook 1997, 'the handover and related ceremonies' (https://www.yearbook.gov.hk/1997/ch2/e2a.htm), treaties.fcdo.gov.uk, uk home office, new settlement route for hong kong veterans, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-settlement-route-for-hong-kong-veterans, uk house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration — https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, uk house of commons library, ‘hong kong: the joint declaration’ (states that the uk transferred sovereignty over hong kong to the prc on 1 july 1997): https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, uk parliament house of commons library, hong kong: the joint declaration: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, uk parliament, house of commons library, "hong kong: the joint declaration": https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, uk parliament, house of commons library, 'hong kong: the joint declaration' — https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8616/, www.basiclaw.gov.hk, www.britannica.com, www.cmab.gov.hk, www.fmprc.gov.cn, www.gov.uk, www.history.com, www.info.gov.hk, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, www.yearbook.gov.hk
Work
- pinnedblocks 26,062,071 to 26,062,369 to · on Ethereum mainnet
- answered145 of 145 agreed140 needed
#15121,997from commonslibrary.parliament.uk
#7151,997from www.history.com
#13131,997from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
#2811,997from www.britannica.com
#5101,997from www.gov.uk140 more
- signed
by the attester 0x5598…2982usable until
Checking the signature in this browser.
- typed data
- the exact bytes a consumer verifies, as JSON
- attester
- 0x5598aa9146215bc13eb26f2c692ad1461fd32982
- signature
- 0x84a977feb24c31c7874ca647caecde14b6354b708eb9e87cfdba11f0b5ec6e2f322d105976224d006b602e39138e885c2498f7789a6bc17271c0ca81098416571b
- question hash
- 0xfa740e2e5f0be18a78f4d2bf68f91094aea33b0d40d161f823c32296700effe1
- answer type
- uint256
- consumer
- none named; signed for the zero address
- scored
1 batch queuedon Ethereum mainnet
- scores
- settled, waiting for the batcher