Timeline of Kobe

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.
• 1870 – Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club established.
• 1872 – Minatogawa Shrine established.
• 1878 – Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.
• 1884 – (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
• 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 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 – (festival) begins.
• 1972 – Sanyō Shinkansen (hi-speed train) begins operating; Shin-Kobe Station opens.
• 1975
• Nuclear-armed vessels prohibited from Kobe Port.
• 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 – 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.
• 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 – opens.
• 2010 – Population: 1,544,200.
• 2013
• Kizō Hisamoto becomes mayor.
• opens.

See also

• Kobe history
• (in Japanese)

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).