A number of stock market crashes have occurred in the Hong Kong stock market since the 1960s:
1960s
- Stock disaster in 1965 (Canton Trust Bank run)
- Stock disaster in 1967 (Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots)
1970s
- Stock disaster in 1973 (1973–74 stock market crash)
1980s
- Stock disaster in 1983 (Negotiation deadlock between China and United Kingdom on Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong)
- Stock disaster in 1987 (Black Monday)
- Stock disaster in 1989 (Tiananmen Square protests)
1990s
- Bear market from 1997 to 1998 (Asian financial crisis)
2000s
- Stock disaster in 2000 (Dot-com bubble)
- Stock disaster in 2003 (SARS crisis)
- Stock disaster in 2007, 2008, 2009 (Great Recession)
2010s
- Stock disaster in 2011 (United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011)
- Stock disaster in 2015, 2016 (2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence) and (2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum)