15 chronicle entries dated 22 April, spanning 11 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.
涉及地點香港島、澳門、澳門、香港、九龍城啟德新村、香港青衣、西九龍、東莞沙角、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/1841#〈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/2016#〈條目編號〉
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On 22 April 1841, the Roman Catholic Church established an apostolic prefecture for Hong Kong Island and a surrounding area of six li, whose jurisdiction was from then on no longer under the Macau Catholic diocese but directly administered by the Propaganda Fide of the Holy See.
The Roman Catholic Church appointed Father Joseph, who had served as a representative of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Macau, as the first Apostolic Prefect.
On 22 April 1869, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs Lister inspected Kwong Fuk Yi Tsz and found the environment extremely poor, with patients and corpses placed in the same premises, an incident subsequently reported extensively in multiple Hong Kong newspapers; the Hong Kong government immediately launched an investigation, criticized the temple's practices as inhumane, and ordered its closure on the 30th of the same month.
On 22 April 1958, a major fire broke out in the Kai Tak New Village squatter area near Kowloon City, causing 5 deaths (including two pregnant women) and 9 injuries.
On 22 April 1989, the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch set up a mourning hall for Hu Yaobang for people to pay their respects, and held a memorial ceremony again.
On 22 April 1993, representatives of China and Britain began the first round of formal talks in Beijing on the arrangements for the 1994 and 1995 elections in Hong Kong; the Chinese side was represented by Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Jiang Enzhu and the British side by Ambassador to China Robin McLaren.
On 22 April 2015, the SAR Government received a report submitted by the Task Force on External Lighting, which proposed that the authorities enter into a voluntary charter with businesses to reduce light pollution.
On 22 April 2016, the Earth Day Summit was co-organised by Friends of the Earth (HK), the Open University of Hong Kong and Low Carbon Asia Limited, with the theme from the Paris Agreement to a post-carbon city.
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.