THE CALENDAR FOR 1900
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
..............6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
1898
1899
15th ............6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
Maximum
....74.3
72.6
MOON'S PHASES
Minimum ..................46.1
43.6
d. h. in.
sec.
Mean
..60.1
59.0
New Moon
1 9
27
49 P.M.
First Quarter
8
1
15
49 P.M.
Full Moon
16
2
43
46
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1899.
Last Quarter 24
7
28
19
A.M.
Mean.........
......30.19
New Moon
31
8 58 46 A.M.
PERIGEE, 3 days, APOGEE, 19 days,
DATS OF DAYS OF 12 & 1
WEEK
11.47 hours, P.M. 11.47 hours, P.M.
1898
RAINFALL
1899
1.160 inches
0,185 inches
MONTH
Моска
CHRONOLOGy or Remarkable EvenTS
Mon.
1
1
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1888. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872.
Tues. 2
2
Wed. 3
3
Thur.
4
4
Frid.
5
5
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
86 8
6
6
7
7
8
Tues.
9
9
Wed. 10
ΙΟ
Thur. 11
11
Frid. 12 Sat. 13
12
13
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. Commissiones
Yeh captured, 1858.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878,
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Namehow" sank off Cup Chi, near
Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1802
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 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.
Sun.
14
14
2nd after EpiphANY. Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Mon. 15
15
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
Tues.
16
16
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893.
Wed.
17
17
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
Thur. 18
18
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Frid. 19
19
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
Sun. 28
Mon.
Tues. 30 Wed. 31
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Sat.
20
20
Sun.
21
21
Mon.
22
Tues.
23
23
Wed.
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
27
28
29
29
30
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891,
3rd after EPIPHANY. Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. 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 “Oncids *
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870.
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.
4TH 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.
H.Y. 1
Outer forts of Wei-hai-wei captured by Japanese, 1895.