Timeline of Kobe
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kobe, Japan.
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Prior to 20th century
20th century
- 1902
- 1903
- Kobe Golf Club formed.[11]
- Population: 283,839.[12]
- 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
- Hyōgo city ward established.
- Port Festival begins.
- 1935 - Population: 1,011,297.[6]
- 1936
- 1938 - Flooding.
- 1939 - Kawasaki Heavy Industries in business.[19]
- 1940 - Population: 967,234.[6]
- 1942 - April 18: Aerial bombing by US forces.
- 1945
- 1946 - Tarumi city ward and Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs[20] established.
- 1949 - Kobe University established.[9]
- 1950
- November: Korean-related 1950 Nagata incident occurs.
- Population: 765,435.[6]
- 1951 - Kobe Oji Zoo founded.[21]
- 1955 - Population: 979,920.[6]
- 1956 - Kobe designated a government ordinance city.[22]
- 1957 - Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.[23]
- 1963 - Kobe Port Tower built.
- 1967 - Kobe Carnival begins.
- 1970 - Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art opens.
- 1971 - Kobe Matsuri (festival) begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997 - Eco Asia meets in Kobe.[19]
- 1998 - Akashi Kaikyō Bridge built.
21st century
See also
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 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 10 11 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 2015.
- ↑ "History of KHI (chronology)". Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Retrieved July 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 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.
- ↑ 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 3 William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7539-5.
- ↑ "History: Chronology". Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Retrieved July 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 2015.
- ↑ BBC News. "Japan Profile: Timeline". Retrieved July 2015.
- ↑ "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
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