26 chronicle entries dated 31 March, spanning 24 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、皇后碼頭、橫瀾島、上水、葵涌、香港天文台總部、鶴咀、荔枝角、淘大花園、西班牙馬略卡Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
Every entry is citable. Press “Cite this entry” for a Chinese footnote, Chinese bibliography, APA or Chicago note — all derived from the registered source and the generated archive, never hand-written. If a registered source has no publication year, the citation prints the access date and says so.
冇 JavaScript 都用得:來源書目模板 / Source patterns (no JavaScript needed)
《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/1883#〈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/1971#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》自然資源與生態 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/2017#〈條目編號〉
Substitute the entry’s page number and ID (shown as 〈頁碼〉/〈條目編號〉) into the pattern above. The same templates, plus rules and limits, are in the citation block of /api/v1/archive.json.
On 31 March 1883, the American Congregationalist missionary Henry V. Noyes arrived in Hong Kong and began missionary work in Guangdong and Hong Kong, later establishing a gospel hall on Bridges Street.
On 31 March 1911, the University of Hong Kong was established under the University Ordinance 1911, which also laid down rules for the university's governance structure and daily operation.
On 31 March 1930, the commissioning ceremony of Victoria Harbour's first submarine water pipeline was held at Queen's Pier, and Hong Kong Island thereafter began receiving water from the Kowloon reservoirs.
On 31 March 1967, a submarine telephone cable costing 23.6 million pounds was commissioned, enabling Hong Kong to communicate with Commonwealth areas in Southeast Asia.
On 31 March 1972, 11 tanneries were allocated a site in Kwai Chung Area 26A by virtue of Letter B exchange entitlements, and the site was designated for offensive trades for the construction of permanent factory premises.
On 31 March 1973, the Royal Observatory headquarters recorded a maximum temperature of 30.1 degrees for that month, the highest figure ever recorded for March.
On 31 March 1979, representatives of the two sides jointly presided over a button-pressing ceremony at China Light and Power's control centre in Kwai Chung, from which date the company supplied one million units of electricity to Guangdong Province each day.
Records of the Hong Kong Observatory show that on 31 March 1987, the Observatory Headquarters was shrouded in dense fog with visibility of only 100 metres.
Hong Kong Telecom International Limited returned its franchise licence on 31 March 1998, eight and a half years earlier than the original expiry date of October 2006.
On 31 March 2003, a policy recommendation report was submitted by the Culture Commission to the SAR Government, with a proposal to compile the "Hong Kong Local Gazetteer".
As at 31 March 2017, Hong Kong had 35 seawater pumping stations, 7 combined fresh water and seawater pumping stations, 54 seawater service reservoirs, and a total seawater mains length of 1,582 km.
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.