THE CALENDAR FOR 1903
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
JANUARY--31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st
.6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
15th............6h. 44m.
3h. 35m.
Maximum
Minimum
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
xxxvii
1901
1902
.75.8
78.0
.56.7
48.5
.64.9 63.1
dl.
h.
m.
First Quarter
7 6
02
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1902.
Full Moon
13
Mean.
.30.14
10
23
P.M.
Last Quarter
20
7
55
P.M.
1901
RAINFALL
1902
New Moon
29
0 45
A.M.
0.685 inches
0.285 inches
Day 69 DAYS OF
MONTH
12 & 1 MOONS
Thur.
1
3
Frid.
Sat.
3
Sun
Mon.
J
7
Tues.
Wel Thur.
1
3-10
6
9
8
10
Frid.
Sat.
10
12
San.
11
13
Mon. 12
14
Tues. 13
15
Wel 14
16
Thur. 15
17
Frid. 16
18
Sat.
17
19
Sam.
18
Mon.
TUFS. Wed.
20
༤༤རཱུ
20
19
21
21
ཝཱསྶ
23
*£ 54 RA
સમ
ឌ ឌ ៦ ឍ ឌ ឍន អ៊ ៩៩
Thur.
Frid. 23
Sat.
SKA.
Mon.
Tues
24
25
26
27
Wed. 28
Thur.
29 N.Y.
Frid.
Sat.
30
2
31
코인
CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EventØ
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1808. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. 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 ('Uristmas.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840.
Yeh captured, 1858.
Epiphany. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
"Tec 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, Hongkong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of
Japan, 1869.
Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901,
1st after EpiphAXY, 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 United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker Alum, 1857,
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Li Hung-chang, new Viceroy, reaches Canton, 1900,
Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
28d after Erivnaxy, Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1807.
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.
Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. steamier “Nepaul” and Chinese transport. Wan-nien-ching Jatter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of
Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & O. steamer "Niphon” lost off Amoy, 1868.
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Matheus Kievi, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1801. 1.8. corvette "Oneida '
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870, Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900, 3RD AFTER Epipitaxy.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841.
S. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1855. Terrific fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
Commissioner
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Sulton left China with 23,000,000 ransom money, 1846,
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Outer forts of Weihaiwei enpturest by Japanese, laß5. 3
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