21 chronicle entries dated 29 July, spanning 12 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、天水圍、西貢十四鄉、西貢、亞特蘭大Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/1904#〈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
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1987#〈條目編號〉
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On 29 July 1896, buildings, piers and seawalls in various districts of Hong Kong and Kowloon were damaged, and at least 7 people died in Hong Kong as a whole.
On 29 July 1896, an unnamed typhoon struck Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Observatory Headquarters recorded the lowest hourly mean sea-level pressure of the year at 976.6 hectopascals.
On 29 July 1978, the Hong Kong Government granted banking licences to seven international banks, including the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Banque Nationale de Paris and the Bank of Montreal, as well as four others: Commerzbank, the State Bank of India, Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais.
On 29 July 1982, the Hong Kong Government spent HK$2.258 billion to acquire about 488 hectares of land in Tin Shui Wai and agreed with Wai Shing Company (whose major shareholder is the Chinese-funded China Resources Group) on a cooperation plan to develop public and private housing there, estimated to accommodate 135,000 people.
On 29 July 1992, police successfully uncovered a smuggling case and seized a large quantity of smuggled goods with an estimated value of about HK$30 million.
Since Hong Kong first participated in the Olympic Games in 1952, this medal won by Lee Lai-shan was the first the Hong Kong team had obtained in the event.
On 29 July 1997, the Elderly Commission was established by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to coordinate the planning and implementation of policies and services for the elderly.
The court also stated that the Hong Kong judiciary has no power to review the validity of laws or decrees enacted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
On 29 July 1997, the Court of Appeal heard the case of Ma Wai-kwan and two others suspected of perverting the course of justice, and also ruled that the common law remained in force within the Special Administrative Region.
On 29 July 2002, the UGC announced the adoption of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as the unified assessment tool for the English proficiency of fresh graduates of undergraduate programmes in funded institutions.
In the Kwong Nam Group letter of credit fraud case, a total of fifteen defendants were convicted after trial, with sentences ranging from two to ten years.
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.