The Hong Kong Stock Exchange traces its origins to 1891, when a group of brokers formed an association to trade shares in the British colony. Over the next century several exchanges operated in Hong Kong, and in 1986 four of them merged into the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. In 2000 the exchange and its clearing houses were combined into a holding company, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which is itself listed. The exchange has become one of the largest in the world, a major gateway for investors into mainland China and a favoured place for Chinese companies to raise capital. It has stock connect schemes that link it with the exchanges of Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Before and after
- 29 December 1890Wounded Knee Massacre
- from 29 December 1890 to 15 January 1891Ghost Dance War
- 1891Founding of California Institute of Technology
- 1891Construction of University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1891Founding of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- 1891Founding of Vatican Observatory
- 1891Discovery of Gundestrup cauldron
- 22 January 1891Birth of Antonio Gramsci
- 11 April 1891Birth of Sergei Prokofiev
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- 29 November 1899Founding of FC Barcelona
- 30 June 1908Tunguska event
The era
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