26 chronicle entries dated 7 September, spanning 21 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、南九龍裁判署、新界流浮山、維園、香港天文台、元朗、喜靈洲、香港政府總部Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
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Chronicle entries dated 7 September (oldest first)
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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/1850#〈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/1973#〈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/1980#〈條目編號〉
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On 7 September 1850, the French ship "Albert" set out from Hong Kong for Peru, carrying hundreds of Chinese labourers; during the voyage, the Chinese labourers rioted, causing the deaths of five persons in total, namely the captain, the first mate, the second mate, the cook and the supercargo, and the sailors were afterwards forced to turn the ship back.
On 7 September 1905, the Legislative Council approved funding for the track survey of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and construction of the railway officially began the following year.
On 7 September 1919, in response to the rice shortage in Hong Kong, Tung Wah Hospital purchased rice from Wuhu to implement a cheap rice sale scheme, an arrangement that lasted until early October of the same year.
On 7 September 1953, the Queen Elizabeth Youth Recreation Centre, built with funding from the Jockey Club and the Queen's Wedding Fund, officially opened to the public.
On 7 September 1960, the family of Wang Din-shin and Wang Tak-fai completed the registration of Chinachem Investment Company Limited, which was officially established that day.
The Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers was founded on 7 September 1961 and subsequently opened a drug treatment centre on Shek Kwu Chau.
On 7 September 1965, the High Court ruled on a gold shop robbery that occurred on 8 March of the same year, convicting five defendants and sentencing each to between eight and 15 years' imprisonment.
On 7 September 1965, two defendants were sentenced to an additional ten strokes of the cane for snatching firearms and shooting and injuring a police officer during their appearance at the South Kowloon Magistracy on 3 June of the same year.
On 7 September 1970, the Hong Kong Government deployed two companies of riot police and 248 police officers, together with 36 New Territories District Office personnel and a clearance team from the Squatter Control Division, to shut down a Mao Zedong Thought study class venue in Lau Fau Shan, New Territories.
On 7 September 1973, the Civil Aviation Department announced that within three weeks of the implementation of the new restrictions, permission had been granted 35 times for delayed flights to land outside the stipulated hours.
On 7 September 1975, Commercial Television officially began broadcasting in the afternoon; the station was founded by Commercial Television Limited, and its first programme was the Opening Ceremony Recording.
Commercial Television was Hong Kong's third free commercial television station, and on the evening of its launch it broadcast the special variety programme "Good Evening, CTV".
On 7 September 1977, the Governor established a commission of inquiry into the Shek Kong incident to ascertain the cause of the accident and the allocation of responsibility.
On 7 September 1978, Commercial Television staff held a rally in Victoria Park, demanding that the Hong Kong government investigate responsibility for the closure, restore the third television station, and protect the rights of unemployed staff.
A team led by Ichiro Nakagawa conducted gravity surveys at the lowest level of the staircase of the seismic monitoring room of the Hong Kong Observatory from 7 September to 10 November 1980.
On 7 September 1982, a bank run occurred at the Yuen Long branch of Hang Lung Bank, which mobilised HK$600 million in cash to meet depositors' withdrawal demands.
On 7 September 1988, the Hong Kong Government announced the lifting of closed management of Vietnamese refugees, allowing them to receive education and work, and the related closed camp arrangements ended thereafter.
On 7 September 1998, the Hong Kong SAR Government announced 30 measures to restore order in the securities and futures markets, including strict enforcement of the T+2 settlement arrangement.
On 7 September 1998, the authorities implemented new arrangements to strengthen strict supervision of brokers who violated short-selling rules and failed to complete settlement on time.
On 7 September 2008, the fourth Legislative Council election was held in Hong Kong, producing 60 seats; the voter turnout was 45.2% for geographical constituencies and 60.3% for functional constituencies.
On the evening of 7 September 2012, a large number of people dressed in black gathered outside the Government Headquarters to demand the cancellation of the subject.
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.
