79 chronicle entries dated 1 June, spanning 44 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.
涉及地點摩理臣山、上環、香港、三藩市、香港、山頂、香港新界、北京、中環至紅磡、中環林士街、大嶼山沙咀、九龍城、啟德機場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/1843#〈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: Natural Resources and Ecology (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1963#〈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
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On 1 June 1843, the Medical Missionary Society in China established a medical institution at Morrison Hill named the Medical Missionary Society's Hospital, the first hospital in Hong Kong's history.
On 1 June 1869, the Hong Kong government established a hospital committee responsible for planning the construction of a Chinese hospital, with members including 20 Chinese community leaders and merchants, among them Leung On, comprador of Gibb, Livingston & Co., and Ho Pei-yin, proprietor of Kin Nam Rice Company; in November of the same year, Governor MacDonnell granted a plot of land on Po Yan Street in Sheung Wan and allocated $115,000 for the hospital's construction costs.
On 1 June 1873, the Caledonian, belonging to the British-owned China Pacific Steamship Company, set sail from Hong Kong on its maiden voyage with 641 Chinese passengers and arrived in San Francisco after a 26-day journey, setting the fastest record that year for the Hong Kong to San Francisco route.
On 1 June 1887, the Imports and Exports Office was placed by the Hong Kong Government under the Harbour Master's Department, responsible for reporting opium import information to the Kowloon Customs; the following year it submitted Hong Kong's first annual opium import and export statistics, the beginning of such records locally.
From 1 June 1895, the Hong Kong Government began enforcing an ordinance providing that ordinary members of the public might not wear British military uniforms, while persons engaged in the performing arts were exempted.
On 1 and 2 June 1916, a tropical cyclone brought heavy rain that lasted several days, causing landslides and collapsed buildings in many places across Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, killing at least 5 people and injuring 6.
On 1 June 1940, this volunteer unit was named the Hughesiliers after its commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, general manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Insurance Company.
On 1 June 1940, to guard against enemy sabotage in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Government recruited several dozen expatriates who were beyond military service age and formed them into a volunteer unit.
On 1 June 1943, the Japanese occupation government declared that Hong Kong dollars were no longer to be used and stipulated that Japanese military scrip was the only currency with legal status in Hong Kong.
On 1 June 1949, in view of the Chinese Civil War spreading to areas south of the Yangtze River, the Hong Kong government imposed a three-month martial law measure along the New Territories border.
On 1 June 1951, the Hong Kong government announced compensation arrangements for land resumption under the Kai Tak Airport expansion plan, at $2.25 per square foot for house land and $0.45 per square foot for farmland.
Starting from 1 June 1951, the daily operation of radiosondes was taken over by the King's Park Meteorological Station and no longer carried out at the Observatory headquarters.
Starting from 1 June 1956, the Observatory resumed receiving meteorological data from mainland China, obtaining about 1,600 surface reports and 200 upper-air reports daily via meteorological broadcasts issued by Beijing.
Wenyi Shiji was first published on 1 June 1957, with Xia Guo as editor-in-chief; the journal adopted a realist approach and was published until 1969, making it one of the longest-running Chinese literary magazines in Hong Kong.
On 1 June 1962, during Typhoon Wanda's passage over Hong Kong, the highest gust recorded at the Royal Observatory headquarters reached 259 kilometres per hour.
On 1 June 1963, the Hong Kong Government implemented water rationing, providing piped water once every four days for four hours each time; this arrangement lasted a full twelve months and became an indispensable part of daily life for the general public.
From 1 June 1963, the Hong Kong Government implemented a supply of water for only four hours every four days, a measure that lasted until 28 May 1964, close to a year in total.
On 1 June 1963, the Hong Kong Government tightened water restrictions, dividing the whole territory into six supply zones with designated supply hours for each; indoor taps received water for two hours every four days, while street taps continued to receive water for two hours every two days.
On 1 June 1964, Queen Mary Hospital completed Hong Kong's first case of fetus in fetu, surgically removing three fetuses from a male infant of about three months old.
On 1 June 1967, the Hong Kong Government promulgated an emergency regulation prohibiting any person from displaying seditious slogans, with a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine and two years' imprisonment.
On 1 June 1968, the British Treasury issued a batch of bonds denominated in Hong Kong dollars for the Hong Kong Government to purchase with its sterling reserves, with an issue ceiling of half of Hong Kong's total overseas official assets and capped at 150 million pounds, aimed at stabilizing the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate.
These bonds were also used by the Hong Kong Government as reserve assets held in the United Kingdom, were non-transferable, but could be converted into sterling when the Hong Kong Government had need.
On 1 June 1970, an 11-storey multi-storey car park on Rumsey Street in Central opened, with eight of its floors designated for parking and providing 900 parking spaces, making it the facility of its kind with the largest number of parking spaces under the management of the Hong Kong Government at the time.
On 1 June 1972, Shi Feng was formally launched, carrying both classical and modern poetry together with poetry criticism, and it ceased publication in June 1984.
On 1 June 1972, the Sha Tsui Youth Detention Centre on Lantau Island opened as Hong Kong's first such centre, housing young offenders and teaching them to obey the law and respect the rights of others through strict discipline and physical labour.
On 1 June 1972, Hong Kong's first youth detention centre opened at Sha Tsui on Lantau Island, where young offenders were subject to strict discipline and required to perform manual labour.
On 1 June 1974, three runway visual range transmissometers came into operation at Kai Tak Airport, with the data transmitted in real time to the air traffic control unit and the airport meteorological office for display.
Beijing Tong Tai Trading Company Limited, the largest overseas conglomerate established by the Beijing Municipal Government, completed its registration and incorporation on 1 June 1979.
On 1 June 1982, the Hong Kong government announced the cancellation of all water restriction arrangements and restored round-the-clock mains water supply.
After 1 a.m. on 1 June 1982, an MK4 cup anemometer began operation west of the Observatory Headquarters, with the centre of its cups at 71.7 metres above sea level.
On 1 June 1983, the Urban Council began implementing an ex gratia arrangement under which holders of cooked food stall licences who voluntarily surrendered their licences could receive $36,000.
Leung Kam-ho was convicted on 1 June 1993 on three counts of bribery for votes and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, becoming the first Legislative Council member to be jailed.
On 1 June 1993, Leung Kam-ho was convicted by the court on three counts of bribery for votes and sentenced to three years' imprisonment; he was then a Legislative Council member, and the case involved offering bribes to Regional Council members to obtain votes in that council's functional constituency.
On 1 June 1995, the Obscene Articles Tribunal ruled that a statue in Kui Lee Building was a Class II indecent article, requiring its male genitalia to be covered before it could be publicly displayed.
The landfill has a total land and sea area of 61 hectares, a designed capacity of 35 million cubic metres of waste, and an infrastructure cost of $1.1 billion.
On the advice of the advisory committee, the Director is responsible for the designation, management and control of Hong Kong's marine parks and marine reserves.
From 1 June 1995, vehicles with a body length exceeding 11 metres were prohibited from entering Lai King Hill Road between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. the following morning, except for buses.
On 1 June 1998 the World Intellectual Property Organization held a three-day Asian regional meeting in Hong Kong to discuss technical issues in implementing an intellectual property agreement.
All commercial buildings completed on or before 1 March 1987 were required, from 1 June 1998 onwards, to upgrade their fire service installations in accordance with government requirements.
The 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment was hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Environmental Impact Assessment, running from 1 June to 23 June 2000.
From 1 June 2000, the employment model for the civil service changed, with new recruits employed on contract terms, and in respect of retirement benefits the pension system no longer applied and was replaced by a provident fund scheme.
On 1 June 2001, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government launched the Admission of Mainland Talents Scheme and began accepting applications.
On 1 June 2004, the first Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Co-operation and Development Forum was held in Hong Kong, organised by Hong Kong, Macao and nine provinces and regions of the Mainland.
On 1 June 2006, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region implemented an arrangement allowing pig farmers to voluntarily surrender their licences, with ex-gratia allowances offered to those who ceased operation.
On 1 June 2007, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced an ordinance regulating unsolicited electronic messages and stated that the first stage of its provisions took effect on the same day.
On 1 June 2010, the Hong Kong SAR Government introduced new regulations on the property market covering the sale of new flats and show flat arrangements.
The property market cooling measures, commonly known as the "Nine Measures and Twelve Points", required developers to include more units in the first price list.
From 1 June, all newly registered vehicles had to meet Euro V emission requirements, as stipulated after the new vehicle emission standards took effect.
On 1 June 2013, about 60 residents of Tseung Kwan O protested outside the Legislative Council, urging the authorities to abandon the plan to expand the landfill in the district.
The Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs held a special meeting on 1 June 2013 to collect views from the public and organisations on landfill extension.
From 1 June 2015, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region raised the retirement age for new civil service recruits to 65 for civilian staff and 60 for disciplined services staff.
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.