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Hong Kong legal scholar and pro-democracy activist Benny Tai is fired from his tenured position as associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, due to his prior arrest for coordinating the Umbrella Revolution. Tai in a Facebook post called it the "end of academic freedom" in the city.
2020-07-28

Voters in Hong Kong go to the polls for a Legislative Council election, the first major election since the 2014 pro-democracy street protests. Several young pro-independence candidates win seats in the election.
2016-09-4

Pro-democracy protesters peacefully return to the streets of Hong Kong for the first time since the end of Occupy Central protests in December.
2015-02-1

Authorities start clearing the main protest site in Hong Kong following a recent court order for protesters to vacate the site in Admiralty area.
2014-12-11

Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators clash with police in the Mong Kok district as they try to reclaim their former protest site.
2014-11-29

Hong Kong authorities start clearing away barricades in the district of Mong Kok. [http:--www.miamiherald.com-news-nation-world-article4086855.html (AP via "Miami Herald")]date=August 2019
2014-11-25

The Hong Kong Police Force stages a dawn raid at the protest site in the suburb of Mong Kok.
2014-10-17

Hong Kong government says it has called off a meeting on 10 October 2014 with student leaders of the pro-democracy movement.
2014-10-9

Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters.
2014-09-28

Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.
2014-09-28