18 chronicle entries dated 16 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、昂船洲、新界、深圳河至大鵬灣、元朗大生圍、英國聖彼得港、沙田圓洲角、將軍澳百勝角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/1852#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1899#〈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/1975#〈條目編號〉
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On 16 March 1852, the Marriage Ordinance 1852 was passed by the Legislative Council; it provided that persons intending to marry, where both or one party was Christian, could register their marriage according to the prescribed procedure and ceremony.
On 16 March 1899, Colonial Secretary Lockhart of the Hong Kong government and Wang Cunshan, Expectant Daotai of Guangdong, jointly surveyed the land boundary in the northern New Territories and erected wooden boundary posts.
On 16, 17 and 18 March 1899, Chinese and British representatives carried out a boundary survey of the section from the source of the Shenzhen River to Mirs Bay west of Sha Tau Kok.
On 16 March 1910, Governor Lugard presided over the foundation stone laying ceremony for the main building of the University of Hong Kong; on the same day, Mody was awarded a knighthood for his donation to the university.
On 16 March 1943, the Japanese occupation government announced Hong Kong population figures: 967,868 Chinese residents, 4,784 Japanese, and 7,342 foreigners, totaling 979,994.
Tang Ping-yuan was appointed chairman, and Nanhai Spinning Mill Limited completed its registration on 16 March 1948, subsequently setting up a factory in Tsuen Wan to produce yarn and textiles.
On 16 March 1954, the Hong Kong Buddhist Association organised the territory's first Buddhist relic exhibition, displaying a Buddha relic that India had given to Japan and that stopped over in Hong Kong, arranged at Tung Lin Kok Yuen for believers to view for one hour.
On 16 March 1975, according to the South China Morning Post, the Tai Sang Wai residential project received support from David Akers-Jones, Secretary for the New Territories, and Derek Jones, Secretary for the Environment.
On 16 March 1975, the South China Morning Post reported on the Tai Sang Wai residential project, which was expected to accommodate about 30,000 residents.
On 16 March 1977, the Hong Kong team competed in the fourth Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in St Peter Port, United Kingdom, winning gold for the first time in six events: men's team, women's team, men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles.
On 16 March 1991, the 8th China Drama Plum Blossom Award was won by Hong Kong kunqu and Peking opera artist Tang Yuen-ha, who was also the first Hong Kong arts practitioner to receive this honour.
Since 16 March 2009, this mechanism has been put into service, initially covering cross-border payments in four currencies: the Hong Kong dollar, US dollar, euro and pound sterling.
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.