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THE CALENDAR FOR 1898
OCTOBER-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
.5h. 53m.
5h. 47m.
15th
.5h. 58m.
5h. 34m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum
1696
1897
.....91
87
.65
68
d.
Last Quarter
h. m. 8 1 40
sec.
47
A.M.
New Moon First Quarter 22 Full Moon
29
15 8 13
43
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1897
7
45 43 54 42 P.M.
P.M.
Mean..
.29.98
APOGEE, 8 days, PERIGEE, 20 days,
0.37 hours, A.M. 8.43 hours, A.M.
1896 RAINFALL
1897
7.90 inches
6.43 inches
Sat.
1
16
Sun.
17
Mon.
18
Tues.
19
Attack on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884.
Days of Dats or, 8 and 9 WELK MONTH MOONS
234
Chronology of REMARKABLE EVENTS
The "Hongkong Daily Press" started, 1857. Inauguration of Hongkong College of Medicine, 1887. Hyogo declared an open port, 1892. Gold Standard adopted in Japan,
1897.
17TH AFTER TRINITY. Confucius born, B.C. 562. Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884. Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884. Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok'
1893.
Wed.
5
20
Typhoon at Hongkong, 1894.
Thur. 6
21
French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, 1866.
William Des Vàux, K.C.M.Q., 1887.
Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir
Frid. 7
22
Sat.
8
23
Sun.
9
24
Mon. 10
25
Tues. 11
26
Wed. 12 Thur.
Frid. 14
27
13
28
H.R. H. Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Great
public meeting at Hongkong to consider increase of crime in Colony, 1878. Supplementary treaty signed at the Bogue, 1548. French landing party at Tamsui
repulsed, 1884. Death of Lady Robinson, wife of the Governor of Hongkong, 1894. 18til after TRINITY. Shanghai captured, 1941. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection
of Tientsin-Kaiping Railway, 1885, Wreck off the Pescadores of the Norwegian str. “Normand,” with loss of all on board except two, 1892.
Lord Napier died at Macao, 1834.
with loss of 125 lives, 1892.
Wreck off the Pescadores of the P. & O. str.“ Bokhara,”
The first Chinese merchant steamer (the “Meifoo") left Hongkong for London with
passengers to establish a Chinese firm there, 1581,
Revolt in the Philippines, 1872.
Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the
Mikudo, 1872.
29
Sat.
15
Sun. 16 Mon. 17
3
123
"Flora Temple" lost in the China Sea, with upwards of 800 coolies on board, 1859.
Explosion on the Chinese trooper “Kuugpai," loss of 600 lives, 1896
2
Tues. 18
4
19TH AFTER TRINITY. Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866.
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy on board the British
str. “Greyhound, " 1885.
At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China a scheme
of reconstruction was approved, 1892.
Wed.
19
5
Great fire in Hongkong, 1509. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1861.
Thur. 20 Frid.
6
Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormnous damage to property, 1892.
21
7
The Shanghai and Woosung railway closed by the Chinese Government, 1877.
Sat.
Sun. 23
Mon.
Tues.
Wed. 26 Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
Sun. 30
Mon.
*E* ** * *** 22 *
92
9
24
10
The Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.
25
11
H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolitan Dock opened, 1876.
Death, at Saigon, of M. Filippini, Governor of Cochin-Chiria, 1887.
20TH AFTER TRINITY. 69 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M.
ships · Columbine ** and “Fury," 1849.
Treaty of Whampoa between France and Chins signed, 1844. Kahding recaptured by
the Allies, 1862.
Chin-lien-cheng taken by the Japanesc, 1994.
12
27
13
28
14
Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection
at Canton, 1895
!
29
15
Portuguese frigate "D. Maria II," blown up at Macao, 1850.
16
21ST AFTER TRINITY. Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese
1594.
31
17
H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Hongkong, 1869. Ta-lien-wan and Kinchow taken by
the Japanese, 1894,
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