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Timeline of Kobe

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Timeline of Kobe

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kobe, Japan.

Contents

Prior to 20th century

  • 3rd century CE – Ikuta Shrine founded.
  • 1868
  • Port of Kobe opens.
  • Hiogo and Osaka Herald English-language newspaper begins publication.
  • 1870 – Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club established.
  • 1872 – Minatogawa Shrine established.
  • 1878 – Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.
  • 1884 – Kobe Yushin Nippo (newspaper) begins publication.
  • 1887 – Population: 103,969.
  • 1889 – Tōkaidō Main Line railway (Tokyo-Kobe) begins operating.
  • 1893 – Population: 153,382.
  • 1896 – Kinetoscope demonstrated at the Shinko Club.
  • 1898
  • Kobe Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.
  • Population: 215,780.

    • 20th century

  • 1902
  • Kobe Higher Commercial School founded.
  • Kawasaki Dockyard built.
  • 1903
  • Kobe Golf Club formed.
  • Population: 283,839.
  • 1905 – Kobe Seikosho in business.
  • 1907 – City emblem designed.
  • 1908 – Population: 378,197.
  • 1913 – Population: 442,167.
  • 1918 – Population: 592,726.
  • 1920 – Population: 664,471.
  • 1921 – Kobe Light Wave Society formed.
  • 1925 – Population: 644,212.
  • 1926 – Kobe Electric Railway established.
  • 1930 – Ashiya Camera Club formed.
  • 1931 – Nishi city ward established.
  • 1933
  • Hyōgo city ward established.
  • Port Festival begins.
  • 1935 – Population: 1,011,297.
  • 1936
  • Railway Sannomiya Station in operation.
  • Kobe Bank established.
  • 1938 – Flooding.
  • 1939 – Kawasaki Heavy Industries in business.
  • 1940 – Population: 967,234.
  • 1942 – April 18: Aerial bombing by US forces.
  • 1945
  • March 16–17: Bombing of Kobe in World War II.
  • Population: 379,166.
  • 1946 – Tarumi city ward and Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs established.
  • 1949 – Kobe University established.
  • 1950
  • November: Korean-related 1950 Nagata incident occurs.
  • Population: 765,435.
  • 1951 – Kobe Oji Zoo founded.
  • 1955 – Population: 979,920.
  • 1956 – Kobe designated a government ordinance city.
  • 1957 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.
  • 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; 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
  • 17 January: Great Hanshin earthquake.
  • June: Post-earthquake city "Restoration Plan" published.
  • December: Kobe Luminarie festival begins.
  • Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel in business.
  • 1996
  • October: Earthquake-damaged Hanshin Expressway rebuilt.
  • Animation Kobe event begins.
  • 1997 – Eco Asia meets in Kobe.
  • 1998 – Akashi Kaikyō Bridge built.

    • 21st century

  • 2000 – Population: 1,493,595.
  • 2001 – Subway Kaigan Line begins operating; Harborland Station opens.
  • 2002 – Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art building opens.
  • 2006 – Kobe Airport opens.
  • 2007 – Kobe Planet Film Archive opens.
  • 2010 – Population: 1,544,200.
  • 2013
  • Kizō Hisamoto becomes mayor.
  • Umie Mosaic opens.

    • References

    Timeline of Kobe Wikipedia
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