THE CALENDAR FOR 1911
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st............6h. 29m.
5h. 45m.
15th...........6h. 37m. 5h. 39m.
MOON'S PHASES
d.
11.
Ill.
Full Moon
6 11
48
P.M.
Last Quarter
13
3
19
P.M.
New Moon
21
4
49
A.M.
First Quarter
9
42
A.M.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1909 1910
Maximum
.75.5 73.3
Minimum
Mean
.65.4 64.7
..70.4 68.7
BAROMETER, 1910
Mean..........
.30.06
1909
RAINFALL
0.065 inches
1910 2,535 inches
21
DAYS OF DAYS OF [ 9 and 10 │
WELK
: MONTH MOONS
Wed.
1
11
Thur.
2
12
Frid.
3
13
Sat.
14
Sun,
15
16
17
18
19
45
Mon.
Tues. Wed.
Thur.
9
1-80
2=
22
23
2 37 288 2
Fri.
10
20
Sat.
21
Sun.
12
Mon.
13
Tues.
14
24
Wed.
15
25
Thur. 16
26
17
27
18
19
29
20
30
Tues.
21
I
[
Wed.
22
2
Thur.
23
24
Frid. Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
09 22 2 3** 2***
Frid.
Sat. 25
Sun. 26
Mon. Tues.
Wed.
27
28
6
7
* - 8
29
9
Thur.
30
10
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander II Czar of Russia, 1894. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 190s. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser
41
Charleston
off North Luzon,
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-per
1839.
Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.
21st after TRINITY. Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by
the Allies, 1800.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette," 1860.
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Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901,
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. 44 'Sandpiper” and “ Canton City" sunk. Funeral of Empress-Dowager of China, 1009.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. H.M.S. “Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910.
22ND AFTER TRINITY. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers
had audience within the Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubiles, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwong Hsu, 1908.
H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. “Wah Young** by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 11.03. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze An, 1908. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened. 23RD AFTER TRINITY. Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910. | Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of II.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 Hồn, F. H, May. Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer
86 lives lost, 1877.
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"Yesso" in Hongkong harbour,
Arrival of the Princes Albert Vietor and sieorge of Wales in the "Bacchante
Woosung, 1981.
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Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
24TH AFTER TRINITY, 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, 1867. Blake Pier
Hongkong, opened 1900.
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. Revolt of troops at Macao, 1910,
S. Andrew's Day. S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated 1872. The Japanes
cruiser “Chishima Kan"sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer **Raavenna” in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892