2014 in Hong Kong

Incumbents

• Chief Executive - Leung Chun-ying

  Events

January

February

• February 14 - The 2014 Hong Kong Marathon took place. Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir won the men's and women's races in 2:15:05 and 2:34:53 hours, respectively.

  March

• March - Hongkonger and Hong Kongese were officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
• March 28-30 - 2014 Hong Kong Sevens, a rugby tournament, took place. There were four knockout stages in the tournament and each team that won its knockout stage was declared a champion.

  April

• April 13 - 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards took place.

  May

June

July

• July 1 - An annual Hong Kong March took place. The march featured protest that demanded rights of citizens: democracy, universal suffrage, freedom of speech, etc. Organizers of the march said over 500,000 protesters participated.
• July - Occupy Central with Love and Peace is a proposed nonviolent occupation protest for universal suffrage. Its date is unknown, but it is scheduled for July.

  August

September

• September 22-26 - Student groups initiated large-scale class boycott campaigns.
• September 27 - Occupy Central with Love and Peace officially started.

  October

November

• November 11 - Following a court injunction authorising the clearance of protest sites, pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are warned they could face arrest if they do not leave the sites.
• November 18 - Hong Kong authorities start dismantling a protest site in Admiralty following a court order.
• November 25 - Hong Kong authorities start clearing away barricades in the district of Mong Kok.
• November 26 - More than 80 people are arrested as police dismantle a protest camp in the Mong Kok commercial district. Student leaders Joshua Wong and Lester Shum are amongst those arrested.
• November 27 - The Hong Kong Police Force arrests eleven more people in a second night of violence after removal of a camp in Mong Kok and seven police officers are arrested for alleged assault of a protester on October 15.
• November 29 - Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators clash with police in the Mong Kok district as they try to reclaim their former protest site.

  December

• December 1 - Pro-democracy demonstrators and the Hong Kong Police Force clash outside the headquarters of the Government of Hong Kong. Dozens of people are arrested.
• December 2 - C. Y. Leung, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, warns pro-democracy activists not to return to the streets after yesterday's clashes.