中文版：〉〉〉简历与历史背景纪略
| 21 February 1931 | Born at 35 Campbell Lane.
The economic depression between 1929 and 1933 was the most serious economic crisis in the history of the capitalist world. Lasted over a long period, it had severe impacts in practically all fields, i.e. economy, politics and military in many countries. It also brought about dramatic changes to world situation and international relations. As a result, in order to overcome their economic crisis, Germany, Italy and Japan, with limited market outlets but with traditional tendency to militarism, embarked on fascist dictatorship and waged wars of aggression. |
| 18 Sept 1931 | The Japan invaded and occupied Manchuria, the three provinces of Northeast China. |
| Year 1936 | Moved to No. 18 Campbell Lane. |
| 7 July 1937 | Japan instigated the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" and full-scale Sino-Japanese War broke out. |
| Year 1938 | Study at Rangoon Road Primary School. |
| Year 1942 | Japan invaded Singapore. Dr Lim had to drop out from school to help his father selling fish at Tekka/KK Market to make a living.
Japanese occupied Singapore and Malaya for three years and eight months, and fascist reign of terror prevailed. |
| 15 August 1945 | World War II ended with the Japanese surrender. He returned to Rangoon Road Primary School to complete his primary school education. |
| 21 December 1945 | Inauguration of the Malayan Democratic Union, the first political party to emerge in Singapore after World War II. |
| Year 1946-1949 | Enrolled and completed his secondary school in Raffles Institution. He was on the editorial board of the school magazine, and the combined schools magazine.
He read Nehru and other Indian leaders' accounts of their struggle for independence, and began to come in contact with socialist ideology and paid close attention to the anticolonial movement over the world. Thus, his political consciousness heightened and world outlook broadened. Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and other countries became independent one after another. The British returned to Singapore and Malaya and resumed their colonial rule. |
| 20 June 1948 | The British colonial government declared a state of Emergency throughout Malaya including Singapore. |
| 1 October 1949 | Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China. |
| Year 1951 | Admitted to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaya in Singapore. He was a member of the Students' Council for three sessions, and the chairman of the Students' Council in one of them. He was also on the editorial board of the Malayan Undergrad, the newsletter of the Students' Union. |
| Year 1953 | He co-founded the University Socialist Club. He was on the editorial board of Fajar, the organ of the University Socialist Club. During this period, he read a lot of works by Karl Marx, Adam Smith and other intellectual writings. The readings helped to improve his understanding and mastering of socialism, thus strengthen his intellectual conviction on socialism. |
| 13 May 1954 | The Singapore Chinese middle school students gathered to petition for exemption from national service along Clemenceau Avenue off Fort Canning. The peaceful demonstration met with violent suppression by the riot police, causing injuries to many students, many of them arrested. |
| August 1954 | Eight members of the Fajar editorial board were charged with sedition. He was in charge of the Fajar Defence Fund that was set up. The trial ended in total victory for the students when charges against them were thrown out. |
| 21 November 1954 | The People's Action Party was founded. Dr Lim was a founding member. |
| 2 April 1955 | He volunteered to help PAP during the 1955 elections held under the Rendel constitution. He worked very hard in helping Devan Nair
who was the PAP candidate for Farrer Park.
PAP won 3 out of 4 seats contested. The 3 successful candidates were Lim Chin Siong (Bukit Timah), Lee Kuan Yew (Tanjong Pagar) and Goh Chew Chua (Punggol-Tampines). |
| 12 May 1955 | Hock Lee bus workers' strike led to riots. |
| 27 July 1955 | First Legislative Assembly election of the Federation of Malaya was held. |
| 28 December 1955 | Baling Talks. |
| April 1956 | Lim Chin Siong and Lee Kuan Yew represented PAP for the first London Constitutional Talks which ended in failure; David Marshall resigned as Chief minister, replaced by Lim Yew Hock. |
| 18 September to 26 October 1956 | Lim Yew Hock government cracked down student organizations and trade unions which led to island-wide rioting. 234 people, including Lim Chin Siong, were detained under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance (PPSO). |
| Year 1957 | After graduating from the university, he began to serve in Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. |
| March 1957 | Second Constitutional Talks where the delegates accepted the set up of Internal Security Council and the inclusion of anti-subversion Clause 30 in the draft constitution. The clause prohibited those under detention from taking part in election. The delegates was led by Lim Yew Hock. |
| 9 August 1957 | At the 4th PAP party conference, the general membership voted in a central executive committee (CEC) comprising 6 members who were pro-Lee Kuan Yew and 6 members who were pro-trade unions. Lee Kuan Yew refused to accept the key post offered. |
| 22 August 1957 | Mass arrests by the Lim Yew Hock government. The arrests included five newly-elected pro-trade union CEC member of the PAP and about 30 trade unionists and journalists. Three days later, students from Chinese middle schools were swept into prison. |
| 31 August 1957 | Malaya declared independence. |
| 25 September 1957 | Another 48 Chinese middle schools students were arrested. |
| 22 December 1957 | PAP won 13 seats in the City Council elections; Ong Eng Guan became mayor. |
| March 1958 | Meeting between Lee Kuan Yew and communist underground leader Fong Chong Pik. |
| 23 November 1958 | PAP introduced the cadre system. |
| 30 May 1959 | PAP won 43 out of 51 seats in the general election under "Rendel Constitution" for self-government; Lee Kuan Yew became prime minister. |
| 4 June 1959 | Eight leading left-wing leaders in PAP including Lim Chin Siong released from prison. |
| 27 May 1961 | The Malayan Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman proposed the "Malaysia" plan. |
| 13 September to 9 October 1961 | Series of 12 radio broadcasts by prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, published as "The Battle for Merger". |
| 17 September 1961 | Inauguration of "Barisan Sosialis" was held. He was among its founder members, and was elected to central executive committee. He was the editor of The Plebeian - the English language paper of the Barisan Sosialis. He led a "think tank" composed of graduates from the Nanyang University and the University of Malaya. The tasks of the group were to prepare for the general election, drawing out documents of the programs and policies. |
| Year 1961 | He resigned from the government hospital, and co-founded with Dr Poh Soo Kai the Rakyat Clinic at Balestier Road. He married Dr Beatrice Chen in the same year. |
| Year 1962 | His only son was born. |
| 24 July 1962 | He was a member of Singapore's Council of Joint Action to the United Nations to present Singapore case to the Special Committee on Colonialism, accusing the colonial government's Malaysian Plan was against the free will of the people of Singapore. |
| 21 September 1962 | National Referendum on merger with Malaysia was held. |
| 30 December 1962 | "The people cherish peace, but cherish freedom even more", translated from an English, published in Zhen Xian Bao, the Chinese Organ of Barisan Socialis. |
| 2 February 1963 | Arrested under "Operation Coldstore", a joint Malaysia-Singapore operation of the Internal Security Council for opposing Malaysia. A total of 113 Barisan Sosialis party and labour union leaders, as well as activists of student and cultural organations were rounded up. |
| 16 September 1963 | Malaysia was formed. |
| 21 September 1963 | General Election was held in Singapore. |
| 9 August 1965 | Singapore separated from the Malaysia, the imprisonment continued. |
| April 1968 | Barisan Sosialis boycotted general election. |
| October 1970 | University Socialist Club de-registered. |
| 18 March 1972 | While in prison, he issued a statement, 'Bitter Sacrifice Strengthens Bold Resolve', produced the most devastating critique of the abuse of the Internal Security Act. |
| Year 1978 | He was taken from Singapore Prison to Pulau Tekong, and detention continued under house arrest for 4 years. |
| 6 September 1982 | He was released after nearly 20 years of imprisonment without trial. After release, he resumed medical practice at Rakyat Clinic to serve the poor. |
| 31 July 1986 | He started to give a series of interviews to the Oral History Centre. |
| 9 February 1996 | Made a speech at Lim Chin Siong's funeral. |
| 14 November 2009 | Made a speech at the launch of The Fajar Generation. |
| 19 January 2010 | Interview given to The Straits Times' journalist Cai Hao Xiang. |
| 26 July 2011 | Wrote an Introduction entitled "A turning point in the course of the struggle" to the
Chinese book "Precious historical archives of the Singapore student movement in the British colonial time"
《英殖民地时代新加坡学生运动珍贵史料选》 |
| 19 September 2011 | Together with 15 former ISA detainees, he issued two joint statements calling for the abolition of the Internal Security Act and the setting up of an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate the allegations made against ISA detainees. |
| 25 October 2011 | Questions and Answers at the "Changing Worlds" talk sessions. |
| 4 June 2012 | Passed away at the age of 81, due to heart failure. |
（The People's Hero: Commemorating the 5th anniversary of the passing of Dr Lim Hock Siew, pp.213-220, January 2017.）
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