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THE CALENDAR FOR 1897
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG Temperature
1st 15th
....6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
1895
1896
.6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
Maximum Minimum
78
..43
52
MOON'S PHASES
d. h.
m.
sec.
New Moon
3 1 39 44
P.M.
First Quarter 11 Full Moon Last Quarter 26
5
21
BAROMETER, 1896.
49
A.M.
18
3
52 48
A.M.
Mean........
..30.15
3
44 47
A.M.
1895
RAINFALL
1896
0.41 inches
1.73 inches
Frid. 1
28
Sat.
2
29
Sun.
3
1
Mon.
4
2
Tues. 5
3
Wed.
6
4
Thur.
5
Frid.
6
Sat.
9
7
Sun. 10
8
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY.
Mon. 11
9
Tues. 12
10
Wedl. 13
11
APOGEE, 12 days, PERIGEE, 25 days,
DATS OF DAYS OP | 11 & 12 WEEK MONTH MOONS
01
878
4 hours, A.M. 10 hours, P.M.
ChronologY OF REMARkable EvenTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872.
The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1708. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884.
2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. 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, 1958.
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.
British str. "Namchow” sank off Cup Chi
Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 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.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention of
opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Thur. 14
12
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Frid. 15
13
Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
Sat.
16
14
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.
Sun.
17
Mon.
18
Tues.
19
Wed. 20
Thur.
21
Frid. 22
Sat.
Sun.
23
24
Mon.
Tues. 26
Wed. 27
Thur. 28 Frid. 29
Sat. 30
Sun.
31
27* ***** **
100 22 ** * * **** **
15
16
17
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
18
Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin,” at Shanghai, 1891.
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.
29
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.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S.
corvette "Oneida" lost through collision with P. & ̧0. steamer Yokohama, 1870.
Bombay, near
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrifie
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.
4th arter EpiPHANY. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1805.
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