Timeline of Kobe explained

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

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.
• 1884 – (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1887 – Population: 103,969.^[3]
• 1889 – Tōkaidō Main Line railway (Tokyo-Kobe) begins operating.
• 1893 – Population: 153,382.^[4]
• 1896 – Kinetoscope demonstrated at the Shinko Club.^{[5] [6]}
• 1898
  • Kobe Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.^[7]
  • Population: 215,780.

20th century

• 1902
  • founded.
  • Kawasaki Dockyard built.^[8]
• 1903
  • Kobe Golf Club formed.^[9]
  • Population: 283,839.^[10]
• 1905 – Kobe Seikosho in business.^[11]
• 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.^[12]
• 1925 – Population: 644,212.^[13]
• 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.^[14]
• 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.^[15]
• 1946 – Tarumi city ward and Kobe Municipal College of Foreign Affairs^[16] established.
• 1949 – Kobe University established.
• 1950
  • November: Korean-related occurs.
  • Population: 765,435.
• 1951 – Kobe Oji Zoo founded.^[17]
• 1955 – Population: 979,920.
• 1956 – Kobe designated a government ordinance city.^[18]
• 1957 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.^[19]
• 1963 – Kobe Port Tower built.
• 1967 – Kobe Carnival begins.
• 1970 – Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art opens.
• 1971 – (festival) begins.
• 1972 – Sanyō Shinkansen (hi-speed train) begins operating;^[20] Shin-Kobe Station opens.
• 1975
  • Nuclear-armed vessels prohibited from Kobe Port.
  • built.
  • Population: 1,360,000.^[21]
• 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 – opens.
• 1982 – Kobe City Museum opens.
• 1988 – Subway Hokushin Line begins operating.
• 1989 – built.
• 1991 – built.
• 1993 – Artificial Rokkō Island created.
• 1995
  • 17 January: The 6.9 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.^[22]
• 1998 – Akashi Kaikyō Bridge built.
• 2000 – Population: 1,493,595.^[23]

21st century

• 2001 – Subway Kaigan Line begins operating; Harborland Station opens.
• 2002 – Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art building opens.
• 2006 – Kobe Airport opens.
• 2007 – opens.^[24]
• 2010 – Population: 1,544,200.^[25]
• 2013
  • Kizō Hisamoto becomes mayor.
  • opens.

See also

• Kobe history
• Timeline of Kobe (in Japanese)

References

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 20th century

• • • • A Festival with Anonymous Kami: the Kobe Matsuri . Inoue Nobutaka. . 6 . 1979 . 1/2. 163–185. 10.18874/jjrs.6.1-2.1979.163-185. 30233196 . etal. . free.
  • Book: Catherine Bauman. Challenge of Land Use Planning After Urban Earthquakes: Observations from the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. 1998 . . USA . 978-0-7881-8378-2.

Published in the 21st century

• Economic Lessons of the Kobe Earthquake . George Horwich . Economic Development and Cultural Change . 48 . 2000 . 3 . 521–542 . 10.1086/452609 . 10.1086/452609 . 154588521 . .
  • Rebuilding Communities Following Disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles . Robert B. Olshansky. Built Environment . 32 . 2006 . 4. 354–374. 10.2148/benv.32.4.354. 23289510 . etal. .
• Book: Richard Tames . A Traveller's History of Japan . 2008 . 4th . . USA . 978-1-56656-404-5 . Historical Gazetteer: Kobe . https://books.google.com/books?id=xIPs5fF2ehUC&pg=PA271 . registration .
• Book: David W. Edgington. Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. 2010. University of British Columbia Press . 978-0-7748-5941-7. .
• Book: . Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports . 2012 . Bloomsbury . 978-1-78093-977-3 . Kobe . https://books.google.com/books?id=4akVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 . 157– . (first published in 1987)

External links

• Web site: 歴史散策 (Stroll through History) . ja . City of Kobe.
• Web site: Retrospective Kobe (photos) . ja . City of Kobe.
• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Kobe, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).

Notes and References

1. Book: Joseph Rogala. Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English . 2001. Japan Library . 978-1-136-63923-4.
2. Web site: . New York . Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan . About Japan: A Teacher’s Resource . July 30, 2015 .
3. Book: W.N. Whitney. Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. 1889 . Tokyo . . List of towns having population of over 10,000 . Dictionary of the principal roads, chief towns etc. Of Japan. 2027/hvd.hnngzq?urlappend=%3Bseq=206.
4. Growth of Urban Population in Japan . Ayanori Okasaki . Genus . 13 . 1957 . 1/4 . 132–152 . 29787368.
5. Book: . Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. 2005. Routledge . 978-0-415-23440-5.
6. Book: Jasper Sharp. Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. 2011. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7541-8 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=oAYsyZRRqzcC&pg=PR19 .
7. Book: Far East and Australasia 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World . 2002. Europa . 978-1-85743-133-9.
8. Web site: History of KHI (chronology) . Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. . July 30, 2015 .
9. Book: Allen Guttmann. Lee Austin Thompson. Japanese Sports: A History. 2001. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-2464-8.
10. Book: Japan Year Book . 1905 . 24 v . Tokyo . 2027/nyp.33433082441555?urlappend=%3Bseq=96 .
11. Web site: History of the Kobe Steel Group (timeline) . Kobe Steel Ltd. . July 30, 2015 .
12. Book: History of Japanese Photography. 2003. Museum of Fine Arts Houston . USA . 978-0-300-09925-6 .
13. Book: Y. Takenobu . Japan Year Book 1929 . 1928 . Tokyo . Population of the Cities . https://books.google.com/books?id=CJFKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45 .
14. Book: Norio Tamaki . Japanese Banking: A History, 1859–1959. Genealogy of leading Japanese banks, 1859–1959 . https://books.google.com/books?id=jJZVJz1YMzMC&pg=PR18 . 1995. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-02233-0.
15. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
16. Web site: History: Chronology . Kobe City University of Foreign Studies . July 30, 2015 .
17. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=dxTrR5nOE0UC&pg=PA384 .
18. Book: Philip Shapira. Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. 1994. Liverpool University Press. 978-0-85323-248-3. etal.
19. Web site: City of Seattle . December 30, 2015 . Seattle's 21 Sister Cities . USA.
20. Book: Christopher P. Hood. Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan . 2006. Routledge. 978-1-134-36089-5 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=cwbklrvmS-oC&pg=PA211 .
21. Book: Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 .
22. Book: William D. Hoover. Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan . 2011. . USA . 978-0-8108-7539-5 .
23. Book: Europa World Year Book . 2004. . 978-1-85743-254-1 . Japan . https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA2341 .
24. Web site: Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kinki) . Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources . North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources . July 30, 2015 .
25. Web site: Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2013 . .