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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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《香港志·自然》自然資源與生態 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology
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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
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On 29 November 1900, Blake Pier held its opening ceremony, officiated by Governor Blake, marking its completion and commencement of operation that day.
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, urban residents of Hong Kong Island mainly lived in Central, Sheung Wan and Sai Ying Pun in the City of Victoria.
On 10 January 1901, the Qing government sent an assassin to Gage Street in Central, who attacked Yang Quyun, the first president of the Hong Kong Xingzhonghui, at his residence, and he died of his wounds the next day.
On 15 March 1904, the Li Sing Technical School opened in Hong Kong, admitting 40 students in its first intake, with its premises in Central, Kwong Kam-lung as principal and Li Ki-tong, third son of Li Sing, bearing the costs; it was Hong Kong's first industrial education institution.
The Guangzhou Kwong Sang Hong cosmetics factory opened a branch in Central in 1905, and its registered trademark Two Girls became the earliest beauty and cosmetics brand in Hong Kong.
On 1 November 1907, a venue named the Victoria Cinema began operation on Des Voeux Road Central in Central, Hong Kong, specialising in film screenings and being one of the rare fixed screening venues in the territory at the time.
In 1910, a trading venue jointly established by the gold and silver industry opened in Central, later named the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society, mainly dealing in physical gold, silver and foreign currency.
On 28 October 1911, St Paul's Church in Central was completed and opened, with its construction planned jointly by Chinese architect Lam Wu and Anglican Reverend Stewart.
On 23 March 1912, the American-born Chinese Li Yuk-tong proposed the establishment of the Bank of Canton, with its head office in Central, and it was the first bank in Hong Kong to be entirely funded by Chinese capital.
On 10 October 1918, the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong held the inauguration ceremony of its headquarters and Central Building in Central, which had a swimming pool with adjustable hot and cold water and an elevated saucer-shaped running track, making it Hong Kong's first indoor sports venue.
On 26 July 1919, as a typhoon halted work, 300 coolies seized white rice from several rice shops in Wan Chai, and similar incidents later spread to Causeway Bay, Central and Sai Wan.
In 1923, Pedder Building, designed by Palmer and Turner, was completed and opened; built before the outbreak of the Second World War, it is the only surviving building on Pedder Street in Central.
On 24 May 1923, the Cenotaph in Central was unveiled to commemorate soldiers who died in the First World War, and it was later also used to remember soldiers who fell defending Hong Kong during the Second World War.
On 5 November 1923, the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong and from 1 January 1924 operated passenger ferry services between Central and Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei.
On 1 January 1926, a fire broke out at the Hong Kong Hotel in Central, causing property losses of $2.5 million, and a sailor died during the firefighting effort.
On 19 July 1926, heavy rain affected many places in Hong Kong and Kowloon, causing landslides and flooding, with water several feet deep in parts of Central and Queen's Road East in Wan Chai.
On 30 April 1928, a shooting occurred on Wellington Street in Central, in which the victim was the merchant Li Hysan, and the perpetrator was never found.
In 1931, Hongkong Land completed the Gloucester Hotel in Central; the nine-storey building was then the tallest in Hong Kong, on the site of the north block of the Hong Kong Hotel, which had been destroyed by fire in 1926.
In 1932, Lee Kum Kee Oyster Sauce Factory moved its operating base from Macau to Hong Kong, with its office at Queen's Road Central, mainly selling oyster sauce and shrimp paste.
The Jubilee Street Pier in Central began operations, providing ferry services carrying both passengers and vehicles, and was later renamed United Pier.
The third-generation HSBC building was located at 1 Queen's Road Central, and 17 October 1934 was the date of its foundation stone-laying ceremony, symbolising that the building had been officially completed.
During the Dingchou typhoon of 1937, flooding occurred along the Central waterfront, and nearly 2,000 fishing boats and nearly 30 steamships were grounded or sunk.
In 1938, the Eighth Route Army's Hong Kong office assigned Yang Lin (Qin Bangli) to found Lianhe Hang on Connaught Road Central in Central, undertaking the procurement of military supplies.
In January 1938, the Eighth Route Army's Hong Kong office, headed and run by Liao Chengzhi, was located at 18 Queen's Road Central and operated externally under the name "Yuehua Company".
On 12 August 1944, the Japanese dismantled the bronze statue of Queen Victoria in Statue Square, Central, and removed the pair of bronze lions in front of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and the full-length statue of chief manager Thomas Jackson, later shipping them to Tokyo as war trophies.
On 7 July 1946, the Kuomintang government's party, government and military organs stationed in Hong Kong, together with Hong Kong and Kowloon overseas Chinese associations, held a memorial ceremony at the Entertainment Theatre in Central to mourn the soldiers and civilians who died during the War of Resistance.
On 30 August 1946, the Hong Kong government held the first "Liberation Day" ceremony in front of the Cenotaph in Central and announced that 30 August would be a public holiday each year from that year onwards.
On 18 October 1947, Victoria Harbour hosted its first cross-harbour swimming race after the Second World War, starting from the railway pier at Tsim Sha Tsui Station and finishing at the Victoria Swimming Club in Central.
On 8 June 1948, an exhibition of works by Lingnan painting and calligraphy masters was held at St John's Cathedral in Central, displaying over 100 works by Gao Jianfu, Zhao Shao'ang, Yang Shanshen, Guan Shanyue, and Li Gemin.
In 1950, the Central branch of Chase National Bank of the United States on Queen's Road Central was robbed by six armed men, who took HK$400,000 and US$4,000, making it the first foreign bank in Hong Kong to be robbed at gunpoint.
The Hong Kong Yearbook, published by Wah Kiu Yat Po in 1954, records that Hong Kong Island was historically divided into several districts, covering Central, Sheung Wan, Sai Ying Pun, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Shau Kei Wan, Stanley, Aberdeen and the Peak.
On 1 August 1959, the new Standard Chartered Bank building at Des Voeux Road Central officially opened; at 19 storeys, it was the tallest building in Hong Kong at the time of completion.
From 1961 to 1976, the population of densely populated areas such as Sheung Wan, Central and Wan Chai declined, as pre-war residential buildings in these districts were demolished and redeveloped into commercial buildings.
On 2 March 1962, the new Hong Kong City Hall in Central began service; it was the first multi-purpose public cultural and entertainment building built for the general public in Hong Kong after the Second World War, housing a museum and art gallery, a library and a theatre.
On 22 February 1963, the Hong Kong Government announced the Central District Comprehensive Development Plan, designating the Admiralty Naval Dockyard and the new land formed by Central reclamation as the primary development area.
On 15 April 1963, the Hilton Hotel opened at the junction of Garden Road in Central, with a Chinese restaurant, the Eagle's Nest, and a nightclub, and flourished in the 1970s; it was demolished from 1994 and the site was redeveloped into Cheung Kong Center.
In August 1963 an office was set up at Union Building in Central, run by unofficial members from the Executive and Legislative Councils, for the public to express views or complaints to government departments on matters of public interest.
In September 1963, the Mandarin Hotel in Central opened in stages and came into full service in October of the same year; the hotel was 27 storeys high, funded and built by Hongkong Land, and was then the tallest building in Hong Kong.
On 1 June 1970, an 11-storey multi-storey car park on Rumsey Street in Central opened, with eight of its floors designated for parking and providing 900 parking spaces, making it the facility of its kind with the largest number of parking spaces under the management of the Hong Kong Government at the time.
On 10 April 1971, dozens of people arranged by the Hong Kong Committee for the Defence of the Diaoyu Islands held a demonstration for the defence of the Diaoyu Islands at the Japanese Cultural Centre on D'Aguilar Street in Central, during which they were stopped by police and the site was cordoned off; police dispersed the crowd on grounds of unlawful assembly and traffic obstruction, and arrested 21 people.
Hongkong Land was the developer of the Connaught Centre, construction of which began on 7 October 1971 and which was occupied in December 1972, and the building was subsequently renamed Jardine House on 1 January 1989.
On 28 April 1973, a topping-out ceremony was held for Connaught Centre in Central, a 50-storey building with circular windows that was then the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia.
The Furama Hotel had 32 storeys, was completed and opened on 18 August 1973, held its opening ceremony on 3 December of the same year, had 600 guest rooms, and its revolving restaurant was on the 30th floor.
The route covered twelve underground stations and three elevated stations in total, linking Central with the core residential and manufacturing areas of Kowloon.
In 1976, the shares of Sheung Shui, Southern, Central and Fanling in Hong Kong's population, in ascending order, were 0.5%, 0.5%, 0.4% and 0.4% respectively.
In addition to providing post office boxes and service counters, this General Post Office building also housed a mail sorting centre and a delivery office.
On the morning of 28 October 1977, about 5,000 police officers gathered at Edinburgh Place in Central and then walked to the Police Headquarters in Wan Chai.
All units of Worldwide House were sold out on the first day of sale, involving HK$600 million, setting a new record for single-day pre-sale proceeds in Hong Kong at the time.
World-Wide House was built on the site of the third generation General Post Office in Central, jointly developed by the Mass Transit Railway Corporation and Cheung Kong.
On 12 February 1980, the section between Tsim Sha Tsui Station and Central Station of the Hong Kong MTR officially opened, marking the full completion of the Modified Initial System and being the first local railway line crossing Victoria Harbour.
World-Wide House is located above Central MTR Station; a topping-out ceremony was held on 23 May 1980, and the building was completed and officially opened in December of the same year.
In the early hours of Christmas Day, a riot broke out at Landmark in Central, where over a thousand citizens gathered due to a traffic accident and damaged vehicles, resulting in 11 injuries and 18 arrests.
In the same year, the Hong Kong Government announced the "Territorial Development Strategy", reaffirming the reclamation works at Central and Wan Chai.
On 4 January 1984, the Hong Kong Government published the findings of a reclamation and urban development study, concluding that further reclamation was needed in both Central and Wan Chai.
來源 《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育(香港地方志中心) · p.557
引用名稱作品 《海港填海及市區發展研究》(Harbour Reclamation and Urban Development Study)
On 31 January 1984, four armed robbers robbed an armoured van outside the Central branch of Po Sang Bank, taking 134 million Japanese yen in the vehicle, equivalent to about HK$4.6 million.
On 5 March 1985, the reconstruction of the Chinese Manufacturers' Association Building in Central, the premises of the Chinese Manufacturers' Association, was completed and an unveiling ceremony was held.
On 27 October 1984, Yip Kai-foon and his accomplices, armed with firearms, robbed the Dickson Watch and Jewellery shop in Landmark, Central, taking gold ornaments and watches valued at about $8 million.
On 28 June 1985, One and Two Exchange Square in Central, developed by Hongkong Land, were officially opened, with the two towers having 52 and 51 storeys respectively.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong opened on 2 April 1986, formed by the merger of four exchanges, with offices on the second floor of Exchange Square in Central and trading handled by a computerised automatic order matching system.
On 7 April 1986, HSBC's fourth-generation headquarters building at 1 Queen's Road Central was officially opened, with a height of 178.8 metres, 52 storeys, a cost of HK$5.2 billion and a capacity of 5,000 staff.
The building in Central reached a height of 367.4 metres, had 70 storeys and cost 1.1 billion dollars to build, and was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia at the time of its completion.
On 20 May 1990, the opening ceremony of Standard Chartered Bank's new headquarters building in Central was held; the building is 191 metres tall, has 45 floors in total, and cost HK$600 million.
On 11 July 1990, the Man Po Long jewellery and gold shop in Central was robbed by five armed men and women, with jewellery and ornaments worth about 25 million dollars lost.
On 31 August 1990, the Hong Kong Government published a substantially revised version of the environmental chapter of the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines.
On 11 September 1991, Citybus launched its first franchised bus route 12A, running between the old Macau Ferry Terminal in Central and MacDonnell Road in Mid-levels.
On 15 January 1992, more than 200 performing arts practitioners launched a march against triad violence, setting off from Central and walking to the Police Headquarters in Wan Chai.
On 2 August 1992, Sheung Wan Tai Tat Dei ceased operation, that day being its last day of business, an arrangement made to tie in with the Central and Wan Chai reclamation works.
The first stage of the Central Reclamation Scheme created about 20 hectares of new land for the Airport Railway's Hong Kong Station and to support the expansion of the Central business district.
At midnight on 1 January 1993, about twenty thousand people gathered in Lan Kwai Fong, Central, to welcome the New Year, during which a crowd crush broke out, causing twenty-one deaths and over one hundred injuries.
On the evening of 31 December 1993, New Year's Eve, police officers implemented crowd control arrangements in Lan Kwai Fong, setting the maximum number of people present at five thousand.