THE CALENDAR FOR 1907
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
Hongkong Temperature
1st............6h. 29m.
5h. 45m.
1905 1906
Maximum
15th.....
6h. 37m.
5h. 39m.
...........73.6
73.4
Minimum
..65.0
62.4
Mean
.69.2 67.4
MOON'S PHASES
xxi
d.
h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1906
New Moon
6
6
39
A.M.
Mean...
...30.12
First Quarter 13
1
14
A.M.
Full Moon
20
8
04
A.M.
Last Quarter
28
0
21
1905 0.280 inches
RAINFALL
1906
0.175 inches
P.M.
DAYS OF: Days of ¦ 9 and 10 WEEL MONTH MOONS
Chronology of REMARKABLE EVENTS
Frid.
1
26
The port of Quinhon, Annan, opened to foreign trade, 1876.
Czar of Russia, 1894.
Death of Alexander IIE
Sat.
2
Sun.
3
Mon. 4
Tues.
5
~* 28
27
Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston" off North Luzon,
28
29
30
23rd After TRINITY, Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Nava.
action of Chuen-pes 1839.
Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1880.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
I
Sun.
10
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1
English and French Treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette,” 1860.
2
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
3
5
Mon.
11
6
Tues. 12
7
Wed. 13
8
Thur.
14
9
Fri.
15
10
Sat.
16
11
Sun.
17
12
25TH AFTER TRINITY,
Mon. 18
13
Tues. 19
14
Wed. 20
Thur. 21
22
15
16
Frid.
22
Sat.
23
Sun.
24
Mon.
25
Tues.
Wedl. 27
Thur. 28
Frid. 29
Sat. 30
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23
24
25
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17
18
19
20
26
21
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The French repulsed in Corea, 1806. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubiles in Hongkong,.
1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1909, H.M.S. “Sandpiper” and “Canton City ” sunk. 24th after TRINITY. Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens,
Hongkong, 1887.
H.M.8. **Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert Resident General
of Annani and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901.
Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1804. The Foreign Ministers had audience within-
the Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,
1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897.
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H. M. gunboat "Gnat lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. “Wah Yeung by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 1903
Bhanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naxiang opened.. Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and.
several hundred lives lost, 1887. Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from Hongkong, 1903; acting appointment of Hon. F. H. May.
Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 88
lives lost, 1877.
Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante "
Wooming, 1881,
20TH AFTER TRINITY,
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 18871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
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.
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1807. Blake Pier
Hongkong, opened 1900.
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Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton, near Ku-lan, 1869.
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
8. Andrew's Day. 8. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated 1872. The Japanes
oruiser “Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer “Raavenna ' in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892
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