17 chronicle entries dated 11 August, 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.
涉及地點天津白河口、鯉魚門、香港、瑞士洛迦諾、下城門水塘、中環康樂廣場、荃灣芙蓉山村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/1840#〈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 Environment (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1969#〈條目編號〉
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On 11 August 1840, the British fleet sailed to the Baihe River mouth in Tianjin and presented Lord Palmerston's note to the Qing government, demanding compensation for opium and the cession of islands.
On 11 August 1887, the fort defence system at Lei Yue Mun was completed, centred on the Lei Yue Mun fort and connected to nearby batteries by several underground tunnels.
On 11 August 1930, scaffolding workers in Hong Kong launched a strike with three demands: higher pay, abolition of the labour contracting system, and improved food and accommodation; on the 21st of the same month, through the mediation of merchant Li Youquan and Li Yimei, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the employer's Lianyi Tang and the workers' Tongjing Union reached agreement and signed a settlement, and the workers returned to work.
On 11 August 1941, the Hong Kong Government set up a committee headed by Puisne Judge C. G. Alves to investigate whether the Air Raid Precautions Department had been involved in corruption in the purchase of building materials and military supplies.
On 11 August 1950, the Hong Kong Government published a new list of embargoed items with more than one hundred entries, including hardware and machinery, chemical materials and instruments, petroleum and related equipment, radio equipment, and land and sea transport equipment.
On 11 August 1958, Kwan Shan won the Silver Sail Award for The True Story of Ah Q at the 12th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, becoming Hong Kong's first international best actor.
In addition to providing post office boxes and service counters, this General Post Office building also housed a mail sorting centre and a delivery office.
On 11 August 1985, the Hong Kong Federation of Students organised a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao secondary school student exchange activity and received 15 senior secondary students who came to Hong Kong from Guangzhou, staying for a total of two days.
A group of senior secondary students from Guangzhou came to Hong Kong for exchange for the first time after the state implemented the reform and opening-up policy.
Yan Liangkun served as conductor, leading the Central Chorus together with several Hong Kong and Macao choral groups in a joint performance of the Yellow River Cantata at the music festival, with about one thousand participants.
On 11 August 1995, the Supreme Court decided to overturn the original ruling and held that the ordinance did not apply to works of art, so the statue could remain in its original form for public viewing.
On 11 August 1997, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region decided to allocate US$1 billion from the Exchange Fund to the International Monetary Fund's lending arrangement for Thailand.
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.