25 chronicle entries dated 15 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.
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涉及地點香港、梅樹坑、沙頭角、中環花園道、香港灣仔、政府大球場、摩洛哥馬拉喀什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/1851#〈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/2004#〈條目編號〉
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On 15 April 1851, Bridges was appointed a barrister by the Supreme Court; in the same year he founded Hong Kong's first law firm specialising in representing clients in litigation, which was the predecessor of Deacons.
On 15 April 1852, the case entered retrial proceedings, and Fenton was sentenced to three years' imprisonment after being found to have had contact with pirates.
On 15 April 1899, more than a thousand militia used gingals and cannons at Mui Shue Hang to intercept 122 British Indian soldiers heading to Tai Po New Market; that afternoon the British warship HMS Fame arrived and opened fire, destroying several militia defences, whereupon the militia scattered.
On 15 April 1944, the Japanese occupation government reduced the rice rationing scope to cover only those cooperating with the Japanese military administration and their relatives, and in December of the same year further narrowed it so that only the collaborators themselves received rations.
On 15 April 1948, Chinese and British personnel carried out an on-site survey at Sha Tau Kok and re-erected the boundary stones; on the 17th of the same month, two days later, representatives of both sides signed a memorandum together.
On 15 April 1953, the Hong Kong Government responded to the report of the Rent Control Inquiry Committee by revising the rent increase scheme: commercial and residential buildings would first have rents raised by 50% over pre-war rental values, and by a further 50% after one year; for commercial buildings, an additional 100% after two years, with control abolished upon expiry of three years; for residential buildings, a reassessment after two years on whether to abolish control.
On 15 April 1956, the Observatory added the Strong Wind Signal No. 3 represented by an inverted T symbol, and replaced the former local strong wind signal with the Strong Monsoon Signal.
On 15 April 1963, the Hilton Hotel opened at the junction of Garden Road in Central, with a Chinese restaurant, the Eagle's Nest, and a nightclub, and flourished in the 1970s; it was demolished from 1994 and the site was redeveloped into Cheung Kong Center.
The businessman Tang Shiu-kin bore half the construction cost of the hospital, which primarily served the emergency needs of residents in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island.
After the match, more than 3,000 fans gathered and caused a disturbance, with some burning objects and damaging vehicles; police arrested six people and brought the situation under control before midnight.
On 15 April 1994, the Hong Kong Government sent representatives to Marrakesh, Morocco, joining ministers from over 120 countries worldwide to sign a document on the results of multilateral trade negotiations.
On 15 April 1997 the Hong Kong Government and the United States signed a bilateral agreement on the transfer of sentenced persons, Hong Kong's first such agreement, under which sentenced persons may return to their place of origin to serve their sentences.
On 15 April 2003, Chan Man-mun was granted the title of Honorary Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal, the first such case since the establishment of the SAR.
On the same day, the SAR Government reiterated that, apart from Central Reclamation Phase III, Wan Chai North and Southeast Kowloon, there would be no future reclamation in Victoria Harbour.
On 15 April 2014, the MTR Corporation announced that the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link would be delayed until 2017.
Factors hindering the works included heavy rain causing tunnel flooding, breakdowns of the tunnel boring machine, and difficulties arising from the West Kowloon Terminus and the Mai Po wetlands underground.
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.