THE CALENDAR FOR 1913
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st....
.....7h.
7h. 05m.
5h. 49m.
1911
1912
15th....
.....7h. 07m
5h. 58m.
Maximum
.63.1
60.2
Minimum
.55.3
54.5
Mean
.58.9
57.3
MOON'S PHASES
d.
h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1912.
New Moon
7
6
28
P.M.
Mean.......
.30.21
First Quarter 16
0
02
A.M.
Full Moon
22
11
40
P.M.
Last Quarter
29
3
34
P.M.
1911 0.735 inches
RAINFALL
1912
2.710 inches
1
DAYS OF DAYS OF
WEEK
MONTH
11 & 12 MOONS
Wed.
24
11
Thur.
ON
2
25
Frid.
3
26
Bat.
27
Sun.
5
28
Mon.
6
29
Tues.
7
1
Wed.
8
2
Thur.
9
3
Frid. 10
4
Bat.
11
5
Sun.
12
Mon.
13
Tues. 14 Wed. 15
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6
7
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CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Øverland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 57s officers, 23,491 nien, 646 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and des troyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yt Sen as Provisional President, 1912.
First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903,
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840, Commissioner Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese Government definitely revised to submit the Macao boundary question 10 arbitration, 1910.
2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.
Forts at Chuempi taken with great slaughter, 1811.
Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. “Namchow” sank off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated C'hantaboon, 1905. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, II’kong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869 Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901, Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. Two Americans and one Finn hanged in Hongkong gaol, 19995. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University. 1909.
1st after ÉpipHANY. 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 to
open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
9
Thur. 16
10
Frid. 17
11
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. The Tai-wo rate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
"Yik Sing'' lost
Sat.
18
12
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Sun.
19
13
Mon. 20
14
near
Tues.
Wed. | 22
Thur.
T
Frid. 24
7282
21
15
16
23
17
18
Bat. Sun.
25
26
Mon. 27
Tues.
28
Wed. I
29
1
Thur.
30
Frid. 31
2872 XAR
4878 88:
19
20
21
24
25
SEPTUAGESIALA. 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 Wooming between P. & 0. steamer 'Nepaul" and Chinese transport “Wan-nien-ching latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain 1841, Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
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Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
Sir Henry May left Hongkong, 1911 P. & O. steamier “ Niphon" lost, off Amoy, 1868. King Edward's Accession, 1902.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters l'eking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida " lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1960; 12 anarchists executed at Tokyo, 1911
SEXAGERIMA. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt,
1835. Terrific fire at Tokyo; 10,000 honses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol with- drawn from West River, this. Big tire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost,1909
Digitized by JOQ
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption at Taal, P.L.; 1911.