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 editing the page to add missing items, with references to 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.
• 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: 912,179
• 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.
  • Population: 1,360,000.
• 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 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: 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.
  • 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.
• 2000 – Population: 1,493,595.

21st century

• 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.

See also

• Kobe history
• Timeline of Kobe (in Japanese)
• List of mayors of Kobe

References

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 20th century

Published in the 21st century

• (first published in 1987)

External links

• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).