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March

 * March 15: Demosistō held a sit-in protest event at the Central Government Complex on 15 March, marking the beginning of the protests.
 * March 31: The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) launched its first protest march against the bill on 31 March, from Wan Chai to the Central Government Complex in Admiralty. Organisers claimed 12,000 people took part in the march, while police put the peak figure at 5,200.

April

 * April 28: The CHRF held a second protests against the extradition bill. While police estimated 22,800 protesters, organisers claimed 130,000 participants. The latter figure was the highest since the estimated 510,000 that organisers claimed joined the annual 1 July protest in 2014.

May

 * May 10: Rallies in the Legislative Council in opposition to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance amendment and in solidarity with an overnight stay in the conference room of the Legislative Council pro-democracy members, about 1,000 people attended.
 * May 11: A fight broke out in Hong Kong's legislature on Saturday as pro-democracy lawmakers and those loyal to China discussed the Extradition law, after the House Committee, with a pro-Beijing majority, removed Democratic Party's James To, the most senior member, from his position of presiding member, and replaced him with the third most senior member, pro-Beijing Abraham Shek of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).

June

 * June 6: Legal professionals concerned about the extradition bill also staged a silent march. In black attire, lawyers, legal academics and law students marched from the Court of Final Appeal to the Central Government Offices.
 * June 9: Before the government tabled the extradition bill's second reading in the Legislative Council on 12 June, the CHRF had called Hong Kong people to march against the bill on 9 June through an approximately 3 km (1.86 mi) route from Victoria Park to the Legislative Council in Admiralty. It was the largest protest Hong Kong has seen. CHRF convenor Jimmy Sham said that 1.03 million people attended the march, while the police put the crowd at 240,000 at its peak. Protesters who stayed near the Legislative Council Complex then clased with the police.
 * June 10: Despite the sizable protests, Carrie Lam responded by acknowledging that there were "clearly still concerns" over the bill but continued to push for its second reading on Juen 12.
 * June 12: Lam scheduled to held the second reading of the bill. Since the LegCo is controlled by the pro-Beijing camp, it is almost certain that the bill will be passed.
 * A genreal strike had been called for 12 June, the day of the planned resumption of the second reading of the extradition bill.
 * Protesters attempted to stall the second reading of the extradition bill by surrounding the LegCo Complex. Police deployed tear gas, beanbag rounds and rubber bullets against the protesters. They also fired tear gas at a peaceful, authorized rally held by the CHRF near the CITIC Tower, nearly causing a stampede, and deployed the Special Tactical Squad (STS). Police Commissioner Stephen Lo called the June 12 incident a "riot", though the police faced criticisms from democrats and human rights organisations for the excessive amount of force it has utilized during that day and the lack of visible identification for the STS.


 * June 14: Following an interview of Carrie Lam on TVB in the morning of 12 June in which she described herself as the mother of Hongkongers and that she would not have tolerated her children's violent protests, 6,000 people participated in a three-hour sit-in at Chater Garden in Central in the evening to protest against Lam, as they condemned her for being Hong Kong people's mother but willingly "attacked" their "children" with "tear gas, rubber bullets or bag bombs."
 * June 15: Carrie Lam announced that she would "suspend" the bill. On the same day, Marco Leung Ling-kit, a 34-year-old man, suicided in protest of Lam's decision and police brutality on June 12. The pro-democracy camp feared the "suspension" of the bill was merely a tactical retreat and demanded a full withdrawal of the bill.
 * June 16: The CHRF held another rally on Hong Kong Island. The CHRF claimed the final turnout at "almost 2 million plus 1 citizens", which set the record of the largest protest in Hong Kong history. The police said that there were 338,000 marchers on the original route at its peak. Following the massive march, Lam apologized to Hong Kong's citizens and promised to "sincerely and humbly accept all criticism and to improve and serve the public", though she did not comply to the protester's demands and withdraw the bill.
 * June 21-24: Protesters began blockading and surrounding government buildings including the Revenue Tower. Protesters also surrounded the Police Headquarters in Wan Chai to protest against the Force's excessive use of force on June 12. The police took no action to disperse the protesters, who left at night.
 * June 26-28: Protests occurred outside 19 foreign consulates in Hong Kong. Around 1,500 protesters during the day visited the consulates of countries expected to attend the G20 Osaka summit, handing out petitions to raise awareness of the movement in hopes of putting pressure on China. Thousands of protesters then assembled at Edinburgh Place at night.
 * June 28: Some of the G20 demonstrations also protested against the Hong Kong government's prospective surrender of a strip of land in Central Harbourfront to the People's Liberation Army on 29 June.

July

 * July 1:
 * At the annual flag-raising ceremony in the morning outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, police used pepper spray and batons to disperse protesters. The ceremony was moved indoors after authorites feared that it would be disrupted by protesters.
 * The annual July 1 march held by the CHRF claimed a record turnout of 550,000 while police placed the estimate around 190,000.
 * At night, hundreds of protesters stormed the legislature after breaking through the glass walls and metal doors of the building. Protesters caused extensive damage by ransacking the premises, damaging portraits of former pro-Beijing presidents of the Legislative Council, and smashing furniture. Protesters spray-painted slogans, hung up signs and erected barricades. During the occupation, 25-year-old student Brian Leung Kai-ping presented a new 10-point manifesto calling for greater freedom and democracy, and increased autonomy from Beijing.


 * July 2: During Carrie Lam's press conference at 4 o'clock in the morning, she acknowledged the peaceful and orderly march but strongly condemned the "violence and vandalism in the storming of the Legislative Council building". However, she did not withdraw the bill.


 * July 5: On Friday evening, a second mother's rally occurred at Chater Garden in Central. According to organisers, about 8,000 were in attendance, while police cited 1300 in attendance.
 * July 6: On 6 July, people marched in a protest organised by the Tuen Mun Park Sanitation Concern Group. The protest aimed at condemning mainland Chinese middle-aged women singers and dancers, also known by the nickname "dai ma" (大媽), and the elderly men who gave these women "donations" for the noise disturbance and annoyances they have caused in Tuen Mun Park.
 * July 7: The first anti-extradition bill protest in the Kowloon side of Hong Kong was held on 7 July in Tsim Sha Tsui. The march began in Tsim Sha Tsui and ended in West Kowloon station. Protesters marched along Nathan Road and Canton Road, which mainland tourists frequent because of the presence of a long string of luxury stores. The protest was aimed at giving a good impression to these visitors, hoping to raise their awareness of the issues and support for their cause. At night, the police and the protesters clashed in Mong Kok. The police actions were criticised for refusing to exhibit an identification number or warrant card, and assaulting the journalists.
 * July 10: Tension in Yau Tong after a few youngsters constructed a makeshift Lennon Wall on a pillar outside the Yau Tong MTR exit.
 * July 13: A protest was organised in Sheung Shui for opposing mainland Chinese parallel trading, with 30,000 attendees claimed by the organiser. Protesters clashed with the police. During the skirmishes, a number of dispensaries were vandalised by the protesters because they were thought to be complicit in the mainland Chinese parallel trading. The police's action startled a teenager and nearly caused him to fall off from a bridge. Legislator Andrew Wan was also hit by a police baton.
 * July 14
 * Journalists and others in the media industry held a silent march from Admiralty to the Police Headquarters, then on to the Chief Executive Office to protest against police attacks on the press.
 * In the afternoon, the first anti-extradition bill protest in the New Territories side of Hong Kong was held on 14 July in Sha Tin. The organiser claimed more than 115,000 marchers, while police estimated around 28,000. Following the end of the march, the police and the protesters began clashing with each other. At night, the police drove the protesters to New Town Plaza, and then kettled them inside alongside bystanders and shoppers by blocking all entrances and exits. Police's tactics that day was heavily criticised.


 * July 15:
 * Following the Sunday night clashes with police at New Town Plaza, about 100 demonstrators and local residents gathered at the mall to petition property owner Sun Hung Kai Properties about their responsibility and participation in the previous night's events.
 * In the evening, a dozen hunger strikers (many of whom have been on strike for over 12 days), along with 2,400 protesters marched from Admiralty Centre to the Chief Executive's official residence – Government House. Carrie Lam did not show up.


 * July 17: A group of seniors, dressed in white, marched from Chater Garden to the Central Government Complex on 17 July 2019 to stand in solidarity with the youths and the student protesters.
 * July 21:
 * The CHRF held its fourth mass march against the extradition bill on Hong Kong Island. The CHRF claimed that 430,000 people attended the protest, while the police put the figure at 138,000. Some protesters advanced beyond the police-mandated endpoint for the protest and clashed with the police in Sheung Wan, in which they surrounded the Hong Kong Liaison Office in Sai Ying Pun, threw eggs and black ink at the building, and defaced the Chinese national emblem outside the Office. The police used five rounds of rubber bullets and 55 canisters of tear gas and 24 sponge grenades to disperse the protesters.
 * In the evening, as scuffles in Sheung Wan were taking place, men wearing white shirts and armed with iron bars and wooden clubs gathered in Yuen Long and indiscriminately attacking people and damaging cars on the street. They were reportedly targeting those wearing black, the dress code for the democracy rally on Hong Kong Island, but also made attacks on journalists and bystanders, including a woman holding a child and a pregnant woman. They then appeared at Yuen Long railway station and indiscriminately attacked people in the concourse, on the platform and inside train compartments. 24,000 emergency calls were placed regarding the incidents that night but the police failed to respond, with officers being dispatched nearly 40 minutes after the attack. The hundreds that turned up at a police station near Yuen Long to report the incident found the door shuttered. Overnight, the police confronted the mobsters in Nam Pin Wai Village but made no arrests. Protesters accused the police of colluding with the local traids, and lawmaker Junius Ho's alleged involvement in the attacks prompted protesters to trash his office in Tsuen Wan on the following day. These attacks appear to repeat the pattern of Triad attacks seen during the 2014 Umbrella Movement, when there was also a lack of timely police response


 * July 26: A sit-in, organised in the arrival hall of Hong Kong International Airport by airline industry workers, airport staff, and the Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants' Union, aimed to engage with arriving tourists and raise awareness about the on-going democracy movement. Thousands of protesters gathered in the arrival halls of Terminal 1
 * July 27: Despite a police ban on the rally, thousands turned up on 27 July to protest the violent mob attack in Yuen Long the previous Sunday. The police refused to authorize the protests. To disperse the protesters, the police fired tear gas in a primarily residential area and in the evening, the stand-offs between the protesters and the police escalated into violent clashes inside Yuen Long station.
 * July 28: Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Chater Garden and marched on the streets towards Causeway Bay and Sai Wan in defiance of police restrictions. At night, the stand-off evolved into violent clashes. Police fired numerous rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and pepper spray to disperse protesters. According to the police, the protesters have threw bricks, set fire to items, and used a "Y-shaped catapult" to shoot metal balls at police.
 * July 30:
 * Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the Kwai Chung Police Station after news spread that a majority of the 49 people arrested during confrontations with police on Sunday at Sheung Wan would be charged with rioting – an offence punishable by ten years in prison. One police officer who had been surrounded was seen pointing a gun loaded with beanbag rounds at protesters, and was subsequently hailed as a "hero" by mainland netizens.
 * Similar solidarity protests occurred that night at Tin Shui Wai police station, where hundreds had gathered to support two young people who were arrested during an altercation at a Lennon Wall. During the demonstration, fireworks were launched out of a moving vehicle into the assembled crowd.


 * July 31: Demonstrators gathered at the Eastern District Court to support the 44 people due to face rioting charges.