19 chronicle entries dated 10 April, spanning 17 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、元朗、九龍灣、半島酒店,滙豐總行大樓、中環德己立街、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/1847#〈條目編號〉
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On 10 April 1847, the Hong Kong Government enacted an ordinance (1847) for the suppression of piracy, providing that captains of British warships and merchant ships were empowered to search Chinese vessels and that carrying offensive weapons was deemed piracy; on 1 January the following year, the Queen disallowed the ordinance.
The Marriage Ordinance 1875 was enacted by the Hong Kong Government on 10 April 1875, requiring the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to keep registration records of all previous forms of marriage; from the date the ordinance took effect, all marriages in Hong Kong had to be registered with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
On 10 April 1884 the Hong Kong Government introduced an ordinance providing that all doctors other than Chinese medicine practitioners had to complete registration with the authorities before practising medicine.
On 10 April 1899, the Tai Ping Kung Kuk organisation appeared at Tung Ping She Hok in Yuen Long, formed by gentry from various parts of the New Territories, which recruited able-bodied villagers to organise armed forces to resist the British troops, with funds raised by the villages themselves.
On 10 April 1968 the police cracked a case of printing and storing counterfeit banknotes, seizing 1.5 million Philippine pesos and American Express traveller's cheques with a combined value of about HK$5 million, the largest such case in Hong Kong and the Far East 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.
On 10 April 1985, the third session of the Sixth National People's Congress voted to approve the Sino-British Joint Declaration and decided to establish the Basic Law Drafting Committee.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was established on 10 April 1988, on the legal basis of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ordinance enacted in 1987.
The Housing Authority implemented a scheme called Rent-to-Buy, under which participants could purchase a property at a discounted price and receive a mortgage subsidy of HK$160,000 in the first six years.
On 10 April 2003, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region implemented a home quarantine arrangement requiring all persons with close contact with severe acute respiratory syndrome patients to undergo quarantine for a maximum of ten days.
On 10 April 2006, Ocean Park Hong Kong held an opening ceremony for a jellyfish aquarium, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, housing ten species and over 1,000 jellyfish in total.
On 10 April 2012, then Premier Wen Jiabao issued a State Council Order formally appointing Leung Chun-ying as the fourth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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.