THE CALENDAR FOR 1896
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
.......6h, 42m.
5h. 26m.
1894
1895
...6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum
.............74
70
..43
43
d. h. m.
sec.
Full Moon
1 4 6
47
A.M.
Last Quarter
7
11
0
49
P.M.
New Moon
25 5
55
44
A.M.
First Quarter 23 10
18
43
A.M.
Full Moon
30
4
31 43
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1895.
Mean.........
....30.17
1894
RAINFALL
1895
0.90 inches
0.41 inches
WEEK
Wed.
1
17
Thur.
18
Fri.l.
19
Sat.
4
20
Sun.
5
21
Mon.
6
Tues. 7
Wed. 8
Thur.
9
Frid. 10
Sat.
11
Sun. 12
Mon. 13
Tues. 14
2****58
22
PERIGEE, 4 days, APOGEE, 20 days,
DAYS OF DAYS OF | 11 & 12
MONTH MOONS
ស
نت
noon.
1 hour, P.M.
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, 1708. 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.
2ND after CHRISTMAS. Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England
1840. Commissioner Yeh captured, 1858.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.
23
24
Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.
near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1802, Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1869.
British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi
Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1860).
26
27
29
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872.
1891.
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY, Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his
age, 1875.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention of
opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,
30
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Wed. 15
Thur.
16
Frid.
17
Sat.
Sun.
19
Mon.
20
Tues.
21
Wed.
22
Thur. 23
Frid. 24
Sat.
25
Sun.
26
Mon.
27
Tues.
28
Wed.
ཱ༤༤= དྷརྨཱཀ་གལག
1
Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
2
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889,
4
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
2nd after EpipHANY. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home
at Hongkong formally opened, 1863,
6
7
Attempt to set fire to the C N, Co.'s steamer ** Pekin,
Collision near Woosung between P. & 0, steamer
**Wan-nien-ching;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, Jubilee, 1891.
2
at Shanghai, 1591.
14
Nepaul" and Chinese transport 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
29
15
The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & 0), steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida" lost through collision with P. & 0. steamer “Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870.
3rd after EpipHANY. 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.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Thur.
30
16
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846,
Frid. 31
17
Onter forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1895,
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