19 chronicle entries dated 4 July, 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.
涉及地點虎門大魚山、香港、香港必打街、大埔公路近沙田花園、德士古道天橋、南生圍、葵涌貨櫃碼頭、新界東北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/1831#〈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/2005#〈條目編號〉
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On the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month of the eleventh year of the Daoguang reign (4 July 1831), the Daoguang Emperor issued an edict stating that foreign opium hulks anchored at Dayushan near Humen (present-day Lantau) were storing opium and smuggling it inland, causing serious harm, and therefore appointed Li Hongbin, Governor-General of Liangguang, to thoroughly suppress opium and cut off the source of smuggling.
On 4 July 1857, the Hong Kong Supreme Court ruled on the case of the American Boggs, who was involved in several pirate robbery plots, convicting him of piracy and sentencing him to life transportation, making him the first foreign pirate convicted of piracy in Hong Kong.
On 4 July 1912, the Governor-designate Sir Francis Henry May set off from Blake Pier to attend his inauguration at the City Hall, and was shot at by a Chinese man, Li Hon-hung, on Pedder Street; May was unharmed, Li was arrested by police and ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment, and this was the only assassination attempt on a Governor in Hong Kong's history.
On 4 July 1979, Lai Man-yau was convicted of possessing wealth disproportionate to his official income, sentenced to two years' imprisonment and ordered to forfeit HK$16 million.
On 4 July 1986, the Hong Kong Government officially published an amending ordinance concerning comprehensive amendments relating to landlords and tenants.
On 4 July 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government published the second instrument of national laws and added five national laws to Annex III of the Basic Law.
On 4 July 2011, proponents led by Nam Sang Wai Development submitted a project profile to the Environmental Protection Department regarding the comprehensive development and wetland enhancement of Nam Sang Wai and Lut Chau.
來源 《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育（香港地方志中心） · p.553
引用名稱法例／計劃 《南生圍及甩洲擬建綜合發展及濕地改善項目》（Proposed Comprehensive Development and Wetland Enhancement Project at Nam Sang Wai and Lut Chau）
The EPD released information on a comprehensive development and wetland enhancement project involving Nam Sang Wai and Lut Chau in order to collect public views.
來源 《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育（香港地方志中心） · p.553
引用名稱法例／計劃 《南生圍及甩洲擬建綜合發展及濕地改善項目》（Proposed Comprehensive Development and Wetland Enhancement Project at Nam Sang Wai and Lut Chau）
The northern end of South Lantau and the nearby Fau Tsui Chau were planned to be developed into a wetland park and a conservation area respectively, to compensate for ecological impacts.
The Conservancy Association stated that even with ecological compensation measures, the damaged reedbed ecological environment could not be restored, and the disturbance to birds caused by the works would likewise be difficult to eliminate, and therefore the organisation firmly did not accept the development plan.
On 4 July 2012, Hong Kong Customs seized about 649 kilograms of cocaine from a container that arrived in Hong Kong from Ecuador at the Kwai Chung Container Terminals.
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.
