23 chronicle entries dated 21 January, spanning 21 years. Each records only time, place and people or organisations, with the source file and page number. Entries from volumes not yet published are not filled in, and no nearby date is substituted.
同一日日子相同、年份唔同 —— 唔一定同一件事。 · 志錄大事 · 全年份索引 · 呢日嘅 JSONSame calendar day, different years — not necessarily the same event.
涉及地點香港、香港,九龍、粉嶺、九龍大坑西、九龍寨城、廣州、西貢海下灣、元朗Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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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)
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/1860#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/2016#〈條目編號〉
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On 21 January 1860, the Board of Education was formed by reorganisation of the Royal School Committee, and all government schools in Hong Kong came under its sole management.
On 21 January 1880, as Gibb returned to England on leave, leaving a vacancy for an unofficial member of the Legislative Council, Governor Hennessy arranged for Ng Choy (Wu Ting-fang) to fill the seat temporarily, making Ng Choy the first Chinese ever to hold the position.
On 21 January 1938, the Governor of Hong Kong in Council, invoking section 16 of an emergency regulations ordinance of 1931, ordered the sealing off of the Hong Kong Seamen's Union.
On 21 January 1942, the Hong Kong Military Administration announced the implementation of the district administration system, dividing Hong Kong and Kowloon into several districts, establishing a district office in each district, and appointing Chinese to serve as heads.
On 21 January 1949, representatives of labour and management signed an agreement together, reaching consensus on the resumption of work by drivers and year-end pay, ending a strike that had lasted 124 days.
On 21 January 1951, Luen Wo Hui in Fanling was officially opened, becoming the first modern market with a covered structure in Hong Kong after the end of the Second World War.
On 21 January 1957, a fire was recorded in the Tai Hang Sai squatter area in Kowloon, burning down more than 20 huts, killing two people and affecting over 100 residents.
On 21 January 1963, the British Government stated that it did not accept China's claim to jurisdiction over Kowloon Walled City, but at the same time issued instructions to suspend the demolition.
On 21 January 1979, the first leg of the inaugural Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup football match kicked off at Yuexiu Shan Football Stadium in Guangzhou, with the Guangdong team eventually defeating its opponent 1-0.
Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the earliest co-produced film between the two places released in Hong Kong was Shaolin Temple, directed by Zhang Xinyan and starring Jet Li.
On 21 January 1986, Governor Youde authorised the Independent Commission Against Corruption to conduct a full investigation into corruption involving 26 problem public housing blocks, exempting it from the 1977 Governor's amnesty.
The Wilson Trail, opened on 21 January 1996, starts at Stanley Gap Road on Hong Kong Island and extends north to Nam Chung in the New Territories, with a total length of 78 kilometres divided into ten sections.
On 21 January 1998, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department sank an old concrete barge at Hoi Ha Wan in Sai Kung to launch an artificial reef programme.
The initial phase of the artificial reef programme placed reefs in Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park and Yan Chau Tong Marine Park to improve fish habitats and enhance fisheries resources.
On 21 January 2003, the School of Chinese Medicine of the University of Hong Kong held a graduation ceremony for the first cohort of graduates of its Bachelor of Chinese Medicine programme.
The archive holds 36501 entries, of which 8766 are dated to an exact day — those are the only ones used here. Entries dated only to a month or a year are never forced into a day. Coverage reflects published volumes only; missing years are not filled in.