23 chronicle entries dated 22 July, spanning 15 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、港島、深水埗大坑東、羗山道、新界北部、大浪西灣、小西灣附近、交椅洲附近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: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/2010#〈條目編號〉
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On 22 July 1843, Qiying, the Imperial Commissioner sent by the Qing government, arrived in Hong Kong and signed the Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue with the British negotiator and then Governor Pottinger; the treaty was a supplementary provision to the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, confirming British consular jurisdiction in China and setting the Chinese customs tariff at 5%.
On 22 July 1856, the British Army in Hong Kong handed over part of its land on Hong Kong Island to the Royal Navy, and this land was later developed into the Admiralty Dockyard.
On 22 July 1937, Hong Kong recorded its first cholera case of the year, and the disease subsequently spread; a total of 1,690 people were infected during the year, with 1,082 deaths.
On 22 July 1954, a fire broke out in the squatter area of Tai Hang Tung and Kowloon Tsai in Sham Shui Po, destroying about 3,800 squatter huts, causing nine deaths, and resulting in 14,000 people registering as fire victims.
On 22 July 1967, the Hong Kong Government implemented an amending regulation providing that obstructing police officers from entering premises where offensive weapons were kept was a criminal offence, and empowering the police to search for and seize offensive weapons without a search warrant.
On 22 July 1970, the Hong Kong Government announced that equal pay for male and female nurses would be implemented in seven stages; female nurses received salary increases in seven phases from 1 April 1969, reaching the same pay level as male nurses by 1 April 1975; this group of female civil servants was the first to achieve equal pay for equal work.
On 22 July 1973, a bus running the Ngong Ping to Mui Wo route plunged down a slope on Keung Shan Road, Lantau, and the British Forces in Hong Kong sent helicopters to assist the rescue; 39 people were injured and 17 died.
On 22 July 1996, representatives of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union and the Federation of Education Workers delivered a protest letter to the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong over the construction of a lighthouse on the Diaoyu Islands by a Japanese right-wing group.
On 22 July 2004, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region issued $20 billion in global bonds to increase non-recurrent revenue channels and promote the growth of the local bond market.
On 22 July 2009, 16 distributing banks, the Securities and Futures Commission and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority reached a consensus to buy back Lehman Brothers minibonds at 60 to 70 per cent of the original price.
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.
