23 chronicle entries dated 22 September, spanning 16 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、維多利亞港、大埔滘、天文台總部、香港西環、北京、釣魚台、中環Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
同日條目
Chronicle entries dated 22 September (oldest first)
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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/1874#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1874#〈條目編號〉
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On the 15th day of the eighth month of the 25th year of the Kangxi era of the Qing, that is 22 September 1686, hail fell, as large as pellets; in the autumn of the same year there was drought and the rice harvest failed.
On 22 September 1874, Hong Kong was struck head-on by a typhoon that killed thousands of people, later known as the "Jiaxu Typhoon", one of the most destructive storms on record in Hong Kong.
The Typhoon of 1874 struck Hong Kong on 22 and 23 September 1874, killing an estimated more than 2,000 people, with the boat-dwelling community suffering the worst.
On 22 September 1877, the Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Hong Kong published the Hong Kong Catholic Register, the first English-language Catholic weekly printed in China and Hong Kong.
On 22 September 1884, boat operators launched a boycott against the French by refusing to carry goods for French merchant ships using their lighters; in the following days the Hong Kong Government prosecuted several boat operators over the matter, and each was fined five dollars.
On 22 September 1937, the Legislative Council approved a grant of $50,000 for the establishment of an Air Raid Precautions Department, which was responsible for building air-raid facilities and training air-raid rescue personnel.
On the night of 22 September 1948, a fire broke out at the Wing On Company warehouse in Sai Wan, resulting in 176 deaths or missing persons, 69 injuries, and economic losses of over 20 million dollars.
On 22 September 1957, Typhoon Gloria struck Hong Kong and the Observatory issued the No. 10 hurricane signal, the only such occurrence in the 1950s, causing 9 deaths and 10 injuries, with 10,367 people affected.
On 22 September 1973, the comedy film The House of 72 Tenants, distributed by Shaw Brothers, was officially released, directed by Chor Yuen and adapted from the stage play of the same name performed by the Hong Kong Drama Troupe.
On 22 September 1988, the Legislative Council election was held, with a turnout of 97.4% for the electoral college and 54% for the functional constituencies.
On 22 September 1996, the Global Alliance of Chinese for the Defence of the Diaoyu Islands organised a maiden voyage to the Diaoyu Islands, with 18 members and 42 journalists from China and abroad on board the Baodiao Hao.
On 22 September 2015, the Urban Renewal Authority announced the conservation and revitalisation plan for the Central Market building, adopting a minimalist design at a cost of $600 million.
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.