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THE CALENDAR FOR 1895
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
.....6h. 42m. 15th............6h. 44m.
5h. 26m. 5h. 35m.
1893
1894
First Quarter 4 3 Full Moon 11 Last Quarter 18 6 New Moon 26 5
PERIGEE, 12 days, APOGEE, 27 days,
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MOON'S PHASES
d. h. m. sec.
28 42 P.M. 25 49 P.M. 31 42 A.M. 2 40 A.M.
Maximum ............ Minimum
73
74
..32
43
BAROMETER, 1894.
Mean....
...30.12
8 hours, A.M. 2 hours, A.M.
1893 1.53 inches
RAINFALL
1894 0.90 inches
DAYS OF Days of WREK MONTH
12 & 1 MOONB
Tues.
1
6
Wed. 2
7
Thur. 3
8
Frid.
4
Sat.
5
Sun.
6
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
10
VO CO 78 9
44
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Frid. 11
16
Sat.
12
17
Sun. 13
18
Mon.
14
Tues. 15
Wed. 16
21
Thur.
17
Frid. 18 Sat.
23
19
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19
20
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Establishment of bonded warehouses in Shanghai, 1888. Death of Prince Chun, father of the Emperor Kwang-Su, 1891.
The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1706. Imperial Decree disgracing Ch'ung How issued, 1880. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1959.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.
near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1869.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,
1891.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875.
18T AFTER EPIPHANY, Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating
the intention of opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi,
Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1809.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889,
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1857.
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Sun. 20
25
Mon. 21
26
Tues. 22 Wed.
23
Thur. 24
282
27
28
29
Frid. 25
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
** N** 8 *
30
26
N.Y.1
27
2
28
3
29
30
5
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin," at
Shanghai, 1891.
Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport "Wan-nien-ching;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870.
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Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
3RD AFTER Epiphany,
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.
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