20 chronicle entries dated 20 October, spanning 14 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、新界、香港,英國、荔枝角、港島大浪灣、深水埗、新蒲崗景泰苑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/1865#〈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/1898#〈條目編號〉
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The Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company completed its registration on 20 October 1865 and operated shipping services connecting Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao.
On 20 October 1898, by Order in Council, Britain incorporated the New Territories into the Colony of Hong Kong and applied Hong Kong laws there; regarding Kowloon Walled City, Qing officials could still maintain jurisdiction but could not obstruct military arrangements for the defence of Hong Kong.
On 20 October 1916, the Hong Kong Government completed legislation enacting a war loan ordinance to meet the European war effort; the ordinance authorised the Governor to issue "colonial bonds" with a loan ceiling of $3 million to support the British Government.
On 20 October 1952, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lyttelton, stated in the House of Commons in reply to a question that full constitutional reform was not appropriate for Hong Kong at present and that only minor changes to the Urban Council would be made.
On 20 October 1962, the writer Liu Yichang's novel The Drunkard began serialisation in Sing Tao Evening News; the work is regarded in Chinese literary history as the first stream-of-consciousness novel.
On 20 October 1972, the Hong Kong Government announced that a total of 11 hospitals were permitted to perform legal termination of pregnancy procedures.
Lai Chi Kok Hospital was formerly an infectious diseases hospital and was later converted to accommodate psychiatric patients requiring long-term convalescence and leprosy patients.
Princess Margaret Hospital in Lai Chi Kok came into service on 20 October 1975, with the first facilities opened being 162 beds in the hospital's infectious diseases ward.
On 20 October 1978, the Hong Kong Government declared the Big Wave Bay rock carving on Hong Kong Island a monument, the first such item to be so declared, with abstract bird and animal patterns and geometric lines visible on its surface.
On 20 October 1987, due to significant declines in overseas stock markets, the Hong Kong Unified Exchange and the Hong Kong Futures Exchange announced that the stock market and Hang Seng Index futures market would be closed for four consecutive days.
On 20 October 1997, international speculators led by George Soros of the United States attacked the Hong Kong dollar, causing the Hong Kong stock market to fall sharply.
The Hang Seng Index fell sharply by 630 points in a single trading day, and over the following four trading days accumulated a decline of over 3,000 points, eventually falling to 10,426 points.
On 20 October 2009, Chief Executive Donald Tsang and the Executive Council jointly approved the construction of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link.
On 20 October 2009, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced a special ex-gratia rehousing arrangement for residents affected by the clearance of Shek Kong Choi Yuen Village.
On 20 October 2016, the Housing Authority launched the first Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme pilot, with applications opening that day for 857 units at King Tai Court in San Po Kong.
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.