THE CALENDAR FOR 1903
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st
15th....
+
6h. 6m.
ah. 22m.
..6h. 14m.
5h. 16m.
Maximum
Minimum
Mean
1901 1:2
.82.2 80.1
.59.6 62.8
....69.5 71.5
MOON'S PHASES
d.
11.
111.
BAROMETER, 1902
Full Moon
5
1
33
P.M.
Mean.....
.30.11
Last Quarter 12
10
52
A.M.
New Moon
19
1
16
P.M.
43
P.M.
1901 0.770 inches
RAINFALL
1992
5.400
First Quarter 27 1
bany DaY) OF '9 and 10
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CITRONOLOGY of Remarkable Events
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Ska
1
13
Mon.
2
14
Tues.
3
15
Wiki.
4
16
Thur.
6
17
I
Frid.
6
18
Nit.
19
Sen.
8
20
Mon.
9
21
Tues.
10
22
Wel
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11
23
1
Tuur.
12
24
Frid.
13
25
Sat.
14
26
SUR.
16
27
Mon. 16
28
Tors.
17
29
Wed. 18
30
Thur.:
19
1
Fri.
20
2
I
Sat.
21
3
Sun
Moon. 23
21st after Tristy. The port of quinhon, Amma, opened to foreign trade, 1876. – Death
of Alexander III, Czar of Russia, 1894. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser ** Charleston
Great Britain contuenced the first war with China by the Naval aetion of Chucupee.
180.
Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1984.
Great fire at Macao, 540 houses burnt, 1894. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette,” 1860.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
22ND AFTER TRINITY.
Prince of Wales born, 1841. The French repulsed in Cores, 1968. Celebration of the Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. – Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. **Sutalpiper” and "* Canton City "sunk, Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887,
H.M.S. ** Racehorse " wrecked off Chefoo in 1884, Death of 31. Paul Bert, Resident
General of Aunum and Tonkin, 1826. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1964. The Foreign Ministers had audience within
the Palace, Peking, 1894,
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1960, Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,
1898. Gerumus took possession of Kinochan Bay, 1897.
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Bed after TRINITY, H.M. gunboat **Gbat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of
the str. Wah Yeung " by Are in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887.
•
Shanghai opened to foreign eommerce, 1833. Celcbration of Shanghai Jubilce, 1893.
Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Terrifle gunpowder explosion at Amoy : upwards of 800 houses destroyed and
several hundred lives lust, 1889.
Portuguese Custom House at Macao closer, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863,
• Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of 11.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1884. Port
Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894.
24th after TRINITY. Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "*
kong harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877.
Yesso" in Hongg
Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the **Bacchante” at
Woosung, 1881.
10
off North Luzon.
Tues. 94
Wed. 25
7
Capture of Amping. Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and Cl-ina signed, 1907,
and Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
Thur. 26 Frid. 27
8
9
10
Foreign factories burnt at Cantong 1856, Great fire in Hongkong, 1967.
Hongkong, opened 1900,
Blake Pier.
พม.
29
11
Mon.
30
12
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
Hear
ADVENT SUSDAY, Murder of captain and four meu of the British barque “* Crofton,
Ku-lan, 1869. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, INKI, 8. Andrew's Day. 8. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated 1872. The Japanc
cruiser “Chishima Kan sunk in collision with the 1. & O. steamer in the Inland Sea, 01 lives lost, 1892.
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