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THE CALENDAR FOR 1912
JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1910
1911
1st.......5h. 39m. 15th............5h. 39m.
6h. 51m.
6h. 07m.
Maximum
.86.9
87.2
Minimum
...78.8
79.7
Mean
.82.3
82.9
MOON'S PHASES
d.
h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1911
Last Quarter
8 10
36
A.M.
Mean...
29.78
New Moon
15
2
24
P.M.
First Quarter 22 Full Moon
4
39
A.M.
29
9
34
A.M.
1910
18.190 inches
RAINFALL
1911
5.090 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 4 and 5
2 3
44
5
7
∞ ∞ - O
19
20
* 22 **XN
21
22
23
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Sat.
1
16
Sun.
17
Mon.
18
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
9
24
Mon.
10
25
Tues. 11
26
Wed. 12
27
Thur. 13
28
Frid. 14
29
Sat.
15
1
Sun. 16
2
Mon. 17
3
Tues. 18
4
Wed.
19
5
Thur. 20
6
Frid. Sat.
21
7
22
Sun.
23
9
Mon
24
10
Tues. 25
11
Wed. 26
12
Thur. 27
13
Frid. 28
14
Sat.
29
15
Sun.
30
16
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Chronology of Remarkable EveSTS
Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1578. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891 Canton-Samshui Railway completed
TRINITY, SUNDAY, Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Forinal transfer of
Formoss from China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900. Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1863. Death of Sir Arthur Kennedy, 1883. Russell & Co. suspend payment, 1891. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895.
Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1886. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first (. & 0. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wuhsuch, 1891. Communication with Peking cut off, 1900.
Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of £500,000 destroyed, and many
lives lost, 1881.
Attempted anti-foreigu riot at Kiukiang, 1891. Hongkong-Canton steamer “Powan "
wrecked, 1908.
Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.
18t After TRINITY. Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & O. steamer
"Aden'
wrecked off Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897
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Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876.
Peking, 1900.
Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.
Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.
Admiral Seymour starts for
British steamer “Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser, 1875
Imperial Edict condemning attacks on Foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in l'eking, 1900,
Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battic of Telissn (Russo-Japan War) Russians defeated
with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904. Tidal Wave. Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896.
British barque “Cæsar” and Danish schooner “Carl” taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1566. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sank Japanese transport "Hitachii," badly injured "Sado," 1904. 2ND AFTER TRINITY. WOOsung taken, 1842.
First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900.
Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.
Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862.
Disastrous inundation at Foochow, 2,000 lives lost, 1877.
Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842.
Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mission premises at Haiman
city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908. Massacre at Tientsiu, 1870.
Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebra-
tion, 1897.
3RD AFTER TRINITY. Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843. Shock of Earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. French troops surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1884. Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters, sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905.
Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking.
exchanged, 1843, Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.
between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.
Additional Convention
Treaty between France, and Chiña signed, 1858. Confiscation of the str. “Prince Albert"
by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1864%,
Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection
of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905.
The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873.
Indian Mints closed to silver, 1898.
4th after Trinity, British expedition to China arrived, 1340. Opening of a section o the Shanghai and Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891′