Timeline of Kobe
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kobe, Japan.
Prior to 20th century
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- 3rd century CE – Ikuta Shrine founded.
- 1868
- Port of Kobe opens.
- Hiogo and Osaka Herald English-language newspaper begins publication.[1]
- 1870 – Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club established.
- 1872 – Minatogawa Shrine established.[2]
- 1878 – Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.[3]
- 1884 – Kobe Yushin Nippo (newspaper) begins publication.
- 1887 – Population: 103,969.[4]
- 1889 – Tōkaidō Main Line railway (Tokyo-Kobe) begins operating.[5]
- 1893 – Population: 153,382.[6]
- 1896 – Kinetoscope demonstrated at the Shinko Club.[7][8]
- 1898
20th century
- 1902
- 1903
- 1905 – Kobe Seikosho in business.[13][3]
- 1907 – City emblem designed.
- 1908 – Population: 378,197.[6]
- 1913 – Population: 442,167.[6]
- 1918 – Population: 592,726.[6]
- 1920 – Population: 664,471.[6]
- 1921 – Kobe Light Wave Society formed.[14]
- 1925 – Population: 644,212.[15]
- 1926 – Kobe Electric Railway established.
- 1930 – Ashiya Camera Club formed.[14]
- 1931 – Nishi city ward established.
- 1933
- 1935 – Population: 912,179
- 1936
- Railway Sannomiya Station in operation.
- Kobe Bank established.[17]
- 1938 – Flooding.[18]
- 1939 – Kawasaki Heavy Industries in business.[19]
- 1940 – Population: 967,234.[6]
- 1942 – April 18: Aerial bombing by US forces.
- 1945
- March 16–17: Bombing of Kobe in World War II.
- Population: 379,166.[20]
- 1946 – Tarumi city ward and Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs[21] established.
- 1949 – Kobe University established.[9]
- 1950
- November: Korean-related 1950 Nagata incident occurs.
- Population: 765,435.[6]
- 1951 – Kobe Oji Zoo founded.[22]
- 1955 – Population: 979,920.[6]
- 1956 – Kobe designated a government ordinance city.[23]
- 1957 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.[24]
- 1963 – Kobe Port Tower built.
- 1967 – Kobe Carnival begins.[16]
- 1970 – Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art opens.
- 1971 – Kobe Matsuri (festival) begins.[16]
- 1972 – Sanyō Shinkansen (hi-speed train) begins operating;[5] Shin-Kobe Station opens.
- 1975
- Nuclear-armed vessels prohibited from Kobe Port.
- Nishiyama Memorial Hall built.
- Population: 1,360,000.[25]
- 1977 – Subway Seishin-Yamate Line begins operating.
- 1981 – Kobe Convention Complex opens.
- 1982 – Kobe City Museum opens.
- 1988 – Subway Hokushin Line begins operating.
- 1989 – Kobe City Hall built.
- 1991 – Kobe Fashion Mart built.
- 1993 – Artificial Rokkō Island created.[18]
- 1995
- 17 January: The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced in the region.
- June: Post-earthquake city "Restoration Plan" published.[26]
- December: Kobe Luminarie festival begins.
- Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel in business.
- 1996
- October: Earthquake-damaged Hanshin Expressway rebuilt.[27]
- Animation Kobe event begins.
- 1997 – Eco Asia meets in Kobe.[19]
- 1998 – Akashi Kaikyō Bridge built.
- 2000 – Population: 1,493,595.[28]
21st century
- 2001 – Subway Kaigan Line begins operating; Harborland Station opens.
- 2002 – Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art building opens.
- 2006 – Kobe Airport opens.[19]
- 2007 – Kobe Planet Film Archive opens.[9]
- 2010 – Population: 1,544,200.[29]
- 2013
- Kizō Hisamoto becomes mayor.
- Umie Mosaic opens.
See also
- Kobe history
- Timeline of Kobe (in Japanese)
- List of mayors of Kobe
References
- ↑ Joseph Rogala (2001). Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English. Japan Library. ISBN 978-1-136-63923-4.
- ↑ "Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan". About Japan: A Teacher’s Resource. New York: Japan Society. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- 1 2 3 Far East and Australasia 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-133-9.
- ↑ W.N. Whitney, ed. (1889). "List of towns having population of over 10,000". Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya and Co..
- 1 2 Christopher P. Hood (2006). "Chronology". Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-36089-5.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ayanori Okasaki (1957). "Growth of Urban Population in Japan". Genus. 13. JSTOR 29787368.
- ↑ Richard Abel, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23440-5.
- ↑ Jasper Sharp (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
- 1 2 3 "Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kinki)". Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources. North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ↑ "History of KHI (chronology)". Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ↑ Allen Guttmann; Lee Austin Thompson (2001). Japanese Sports: A History. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2464-8.
- ↑ Japan Year Book. Tokyo. 1905.
- ↑ "History of the Kobe Steel Group (timeline)". Kobe Steel Ltd. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- 1 2 History of Japanese Photography. USA: Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09925-6.
- ↑ Y. Takenobu (1928). "Population of the Cities". Japan Year Book 1929. Tokyo.
- 1 2 3 Nobutaka 1979.
- ↑ Norio Tamaki (1995). "Genealogy of leading Japanese banks, 1859–1959". Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02233-0.
- 1 2 Edgington 2010.
- 1 2 3 William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7539-5.
- ↑ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- ↑ "History: Chronology". Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ↑ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ↑ Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-248-3.
- ↑ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
- ↑ Olshansky 2006.
- ↑ Horwich 2000.
- ↑ "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in the 20th century
- "Kōbe", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913
- T. Philip Terry (1914), "Kobe", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
- Robert P. Porter (1915), "Ports and Other Cities: (Kobe)", Japan, the New World-Power (2nd ed.), London: Oxford University Press
- Inoue Nobutaka; et al. (1979). "A Festival with Anonymous Kami: the Kobe Matsuri". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 6. JSTOR 30233196.
- Kobe City Restoration Plan, Kobe City, 1995
- Catherine Bauman (1998). Challenge of Land Use Planning After Urban Earthquakes: Observations from the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. USA: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. ISBN 978-0-7881-8378-2.
- Published in the 21st century
- George Horwich (2000). "Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 48. JSTOR 10.1086/452609.
- Kobe: Developing a Resilient City (PDF), Local Strategies for Accelerating Sustainability, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives-Canada, 2002 – via United Nations Public Administration Network,
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- Robert B. Olshansky; et al. (2006). "Rebuilding Communities Following Disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles". Built Environment. 32. JSTOR 23289510.
- Richard Tames (2008). "Historical Gazetteer: Kobe". A Traveller's History of Japan (4th ed.). USA: Interlink Books. ISBN 978-1-56656-404-5.
- David W. Edgington (2010). Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-5941-7.
- Hugh Cortazzi, ed. (2012). "Kobe". Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. Bloomsbury. pp. 157-. ISBN 978-1-78093-977-3. (first published in 1987)
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