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THE CALENDAR FOR 1899
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG Temperature
1st
.....6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
1897
1898
15th............6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
Maximum Minimum
79
74
.47
46
MOON'S PHASES
d. h.
m. sec.
Last Quarter
5 10 57
New Moon First Quarter 18 Full Moon
PERIGEE, 12 days, APOGEE, 26 days,
Days of Days op 11 & 12
WEBK
MONTH | MOONS
12
8
0
27
3
46 A.M. 25 47 A.M. 13 41
A.M. 10 42 A.M.
BAROMETER, 1898.
Mean.....
...30.20
8.44 hours, A.M.
1897
RAINFALL
1.40 hours, A.M.
2.26 inches
1898
1.16 inches
Sun.
1
20
Mon.
2
21
CHRONOLOGy or RemarKABLE EVENTS
1ST AFTER CHRISTMAS. Kobe and Osaka opened, 1888. Overland Telegraph through
Russia opened, 1872.
First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884,
Tues.
3
22
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
1
Wed. 4
23
Thur.
5
24
Frid.
Sat.
Sun.
678
25
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878
26
27
Mon.
9
28
Tues.
10
29
Wed.
11
30
Thur.
12
Frid.
13
2 2
1
2
Sat.
14
3
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1858.
Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
1st after ÉpipHANY. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. “Namchow"
sank off Cup Chi near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hʊngkụng, 1869. 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.
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Sun. 15
Mon.
16
Tues.
17
Wed.
18
Thur. 19
Frid.
Sat.
20
21
Sun.
22
Mon.
23
Tues. 24
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues. 31
20 702 2 2 2* * * *7*2 8☹
4
5
2ND AFTER Epiphany. Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
678
7
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
8
9
10
11
12
13
25
14
26
15
16
28
17
29
18
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1883.
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.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY, The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
P. & O. steamer “Niphon" lost off Ainoy, 1868.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette “Oneida”
lost through collision with P. & O. steamier * Bombay,' near Yokohama, 1870.
44
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.
SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the
propagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733.
30
19
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money,
1846.
20
Outer forts of Wei-hai-wei captured bý Japanese, 1895.