Timeline of Kobe

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 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 [ja] (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
  • Kobe Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.^[3]
  • Population: 215,780.^[6]

20th century

• 1902
  • Kobe Higher Commercial School [ja] founded.^[9]
  • Kawasaki Dockyard built.^[10]
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 1933
  • Hyōgo city ward established.^{[citation needed]}
  • Port Festival begins.^[16]
• 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^{[citation needed]} and Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs^[21] established.
• 1949 – Kobe University established.^[9]
• 1950
  • November: Korean-related 1950 Nagata incident [ja] 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 [ja] (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 [ja] built.
  • Population: 1,360,000.^[25]
• 1977 – Subway Seishin-Yamate Line begins operating.
• 1981 - The first fully Automated guideway transit driverless people mover train technology introduced on Port Island Line.
• 1981 – Kobe Convention Complex [ja] opens.
• 1982 – Kobe City Museum opens.
• 1988 – Subway Hokushin Line begins operating.
• 1989 – Kobe City Hall [ja] built.
• 1991 – Kobe Fashion Mart [ja] built.
• 1993 – Artificial Rokkō Island created.^[18]
• 1995
  • 17 January: The 6.9 M_w  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 [ja] opens.^[9]
• 2010 – Population: 1,544,200.^[29]
• 2013
  • Kizō Hisamoto becomes mayor.
  • Umie Mosaic [ja] opens.

See also

• Kobe history
• Timeline of Kobe (in Japanese)
• List of mayors of Kobe [ja]

References

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3. Far East and Australasia 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-133-9.
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17. 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.
18. Edgington 2010.
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21. "History: Chronology". Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
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27. Horwich 2000.
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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, hdl:2027/nnc1.50290956
• 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 (1/2): 163–185. doi:10.18874/jjrs.6.1-2.1979.163-185. 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 (3): 521–542. doi:10.1086/452609. JSTOR 10.1086/452609. S2CID 154588521.
• 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, Case Study #80
• Robert B. Olshansky; et al. (2006). "Rebuilding Communities Following Disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles". Built Environment. 32 (4): 354–374. doi:10.2148/benv.32.4.354. 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)

External links

• "歴史散策 (Stroll through History)" (in Japanese). City of Kobe.
• "Retrospective Kobe (photos)" (in Japanese). City of Kobe.
• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).