20 chronicle entries dated 8 October, 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、廣州、廣州黃埔、堅尼地城、北京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. Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1856#〈條目編號〉
《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/1856#〈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/2004#〈條目編號〉
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On 8 October 1818, successive heavy rains fell in Hong Kong, causing flooding; the bank at Zhensha Bridge was breached, and the dammed fields at Shahe Dong and other places collapsed and subsided through scouring and compression.
On the 9th day of the 9th month of the 23rd year of the Jiaqing reign (Qing), i.e. 8 October 1818, torrential rain caused the river to surge, the embankment at Zhensha Bridge collapsed, and the terraced fields at Shahedong and other places were destroyed and buried by floodwaters and silt.
On 8 October 1856, the Arrow incident broke out in Guangzhou, after which anti-British sentiment among Hong Kong Chinese ran high, and workers in many trades stopped work one after another and returned to their places of origin.
On 8 October 1856, a Chinese sailing vessel named the Arrow was seized at Whampoa in Canton by Qing naval forces on suspicion of smuggling; the vessel had previously been registered in Hong Kong, and the incident later became the pretext for the British attack on Canton and triggered the Second Opium War.
On 8 October 1883, Russell & Co. handled the registration of the Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company, which then built a factory in Kennedy Town, the first rope-making factory in Hong Kong.
On 8 October 1949, the first part of a two-part Hong Kong film on the subject of Wong Fei-hung began screening in cinemas that day, with principal male actors including Cho Tat-wah and Kwan Tak-hing.
On 8 October 1952, the Hong Kong High Court, in accordance with the judgment of the British Privy Council, ruled that Civil Air Transport owned the aircraft of the two airlines, and the aircraft parked at Kai Tak Airport were subsequently shipped out in batches.
On 8 October 1955, aerodynamics expert Qian Xuesen and 38 others travelled from the United States to mainland China via Hong Kong; while staying in Hong Kong they issued a public statement titled 'Salute to the Motherland', signed by 24 returning students.
On 8 October 1983, Bankers Trust Company filed a petition with the Supreme Court for the winding-up of Carrian Investments on the ground of insolvency.
On 8 October 1986, the Hong Kong Government modified the titles of unofficial members of the Legislative Council and Executive Council by removing the words 'unofficial', and thereafter members of both councils, together with official members, were uniformly referred to as Legislative Council members or Executive Council members.
On 8 October 1992, a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council said that Chris Patten's constitutional reform proposals had not been consulted with the Chinese side beforehand, making it difficult for them to dovetail with the method for forming the Legislative Council set by the Preparatory Committee for the Special Administrative Region.
The Policy Address proposed an annual supply of at least 85,000 public and private housing units, and set a target for 70 per cent of households to own their homes within ten years.
The Policy Address proposed compressing the average waiting time for public rental housing to three years, and announced several large-scale railway and road construction projects.
On 8 October 1997, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa delivered his first Policy Address, titled 'Building Hong Kong for a New Era', which contained policy measures on housing.
On 8 October 2010, the Central Government announced the appointment of Wang Guangya as Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.
On 8 October 2012, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced that the implementation plan for a curriculum document would be shelved.
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.