18 chronicle entries dated 12 March, spanning 14 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、新加坡、香港仔隧道、大埔八仙嶺、北京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/1844#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1973#〈條目編號〉
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On 12 March 1844, the Hong Kong government implemented an ordinance regulating merchant ships, providing that British merchant ship owners must not abandon their crew members or refuse to carry them back to Britain, but the ordinance was later disallowed by Queen Victoria.
On 12 March 1948, the Hong Kong Bar Association, a body specifically responsible for regulating the practice of barristers, was officially established.
The inaugural issue of Pat Ku was published on 12 March 1967, covering current affairs commentary, literature, drama and philosophy, and it continued publication until 1978.
On 12 March 1973, the Colonial Secretary issued a reply stating that the Hong Kong Government was conducting urgent and thorough consideration of the question of reopening night flights at Kai Tak Airport.
On 12 March 1973, the Colonial Secretary stated in his reply that the matter of resuming night flight operations at Kai Tak Airport was being studied urgently and carefully by the authorities.
On that day, the northbound tube of the Aberdeen Tunnel was officially opened, operating on a single-tube two-way basis, connecting Wong Chuk Hang and Happy Valley, with a total length of 1.9 kilometres.
The Hong Kong Outstanding Athletes Election had six awardees, namely Chan Lim-chee, Yuko Hasegawa, Hung Chung-yam, and Hui So-hung, Wong Yiu-wing and Cheung Siu-chin.
On 12 March 1996, the Spring Breeze Pavilion was unveiled at Pat Sin Leng to commemorate the teachers Chow Chi-chai and Wong Sau-mei who died in the line of duty.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government enacted the District Councils Ordinance in respect of district council matters, providing for the composition, structure and method of selection of the organisation and the qualifications required of members.
On 12 March 2005, Donald Tsang, in his capacity as Chief Secretary for Administration, took over as Acting Chief Executive, and the Central Government had already approved Tung Chee-hwa's resignation earlier.
On 12 March 2006, the decommissioning ceremony of Victoria Prison was held, marking the formal end of over 160 years of operation of Hong Kong's first prison.
On 12 March 2008, the project profile for the Hong Kong Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was submitted by the Highways Department to the Environmental Protection Department, together with an application for an environmental impact assessment study brief.
On 12 March 2009, the People's Bank of China and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a linkage arrangement between the multi-currency payment systems of the Mainland and Hong Kong.
On 12 March 2009, the People's Bank of China and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set out arrangements for the interconnection of multi-currency payment systems between the Mainland and Hong Kong.
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.