34 chronicle entries dated 28 October, spanning 23 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、中環、北角、馬頭涌、京士柏、八鄉、果洲群島、和記大廈、中環愛丁堡廣場、東區、旺角、香港國際機場、北京、赤鱲角亞洲國際博覽館Places appearing in these entries (not an exhaustive list of where events happened).
Every entry is citable. Press “Cite this entry” for a Chinese footnote, Chinese bibliography, APA or Chicago note — all derived from the registered source and the generated archive, never hand-written. If a registered source has no publication year, the citation prints the access date and says so.
冇 JavaScript 都用得:來源書目模板 / Source patterns (no JavaScript needed)
《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/1854#〈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: Environmental Protection and Conservation (p. 〈頁碼〉). Accessed 2026-10-18. /chronicle/archive/1977#〈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/1981#〈條目編號〉
Substitute the entry’s page number and ID (shown as 〈頁碼〉/〈條目編號〉) into the pattern above. The same templates, plus rules and limits, are in the citation block of /api/v1/archive.json.
On 28 October 1854, the solicitor Gaskell proposed the establishment of the Hong Kong Law Society, Hong Kong's first professional lawyers' organisation.
On 28 October 1911, St Paul's Church in Central was completed and opened, with its construction planned jointly by Chinese architect Lam Wu and Anglican Reverend Stewart.
On 28 October 1932, to implement the Ottawa Agreements of 1932, the Hong Kong Government promulgated the Commonwealth Preference Ordinance 1932, imposing a duty of twenty per cent of the value of the whole vehicle on motor cars imported from non-Commonwealth areas.
On 28 October 1938, the Hong Kong Government announced the establishment of refugee camps at North Point, Ma Tau Chung, King's Park and Pat Heung to accommodate refugees entering Hong Kong from outside.
On 28 October 1945, a passenger ship named "Zhenxiang" set sail from Shantou for Hong Kong and sank near the Ninepin Group, causing about 220 deaths on board; the next day, 123 survivors were rescued by fishing boats and subsequently brought to Hong Kong.
At noon that day, about 100 people carried out vandalism and disorderly acts at the ICAC Operations Department headquarters in Hutchison House, during which the ICAC plaque was removed and five ICAC officers were injured.
On the morning of 28 October 1977, about 5,000 police officers gathered at Edinburgh Place in Central and then walked to the Police Headquarters in Wan Chai.
On 28 October 1990, about 5,000 people attended a public rally to defend Diaoyutai, protesting against the actions of a Japanese right-wing group in erecting a navigation light and painting the Japanese flag on Diaoyutai.
On 28 October 1992, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Straits Exchange Foundation began four days of talks in Hong Kong to discuss the formulation of "One China", but the two sides ultimately failed to reach a consensus.
Among those arrested were nine police officers, who were alleged to have conspired to obtain improper benefits and to have provided protection for operators engaged in drug trafficking and the sex industry.
On 28 October 1998, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region held its first official memorial ceremony for those who died defending Hong Kong in the Second World War.
Henry Fok Ying-tung, then Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, passed away in Beijing on 28 October 2006 at the age of 83.
On 28 October 2011, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region enacted several regulations relating to buildings, with the Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme and Mandatory Window Inspection Scheme taking effect from 30 June 2012.
On 28 October 2014, the second report was released to the public by the expert panel, covering overseas experts' views on cost budgeting and completion scheduling.
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.