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THE CALENDAR FOR 1914

JUNE-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st............5h. 39m.

6l. 51m.

1912 1913

15th............5h. 39m.

6h. 07m.

Maximum

.85.4 85.6

Minimum

.78.6

77.6

Mean

...$1.6

$1.2

MOON'S PHASES

d. h.

m.

BAROMETER, 1913

First Quarter

1 10

03

P.M.

Mean.....

.29.79

Full Moon

8

1

18

P.M.

Last Quarter

15

10

20

1912

P.M.

RAINFALL

1913

New Moon

23

11

33

P.M.

14.160 inches

16.035 inches

DAYS OF DAYS or 5 & 5 Int.]

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1978. New Opium Agree. ment between Hongkong and China came into forec, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1821. Cauton-Samshui Railway completed

Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1971. Formal transfer of Formosa from

China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900,

Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1563. 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, 1883. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first O. & 0. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875, Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusneh, 1891. Commumica- tion with Peking ent off, 1900. French str. 4. Lebandy pirated on West River, 1913. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of 10,000 destroyed, and many

lives lost, 1864.

WEEK

MONTH

leass

Mon.

1

8

WHIT MONDAY,

Tues. 2

9

Wed.

3

10

Thur.

11

Fri.

12

Sat.

13

Sun.

14

Mon.

8

15

Tues.

9

16

Wed. 10

17

Thur. 11

18

Frid. 12 Sat. 13

19

2)

Sun. 14

21

Mon. 15

22

Tues. 23

Tues. 16

Wed.

Thur.

18

Frid. 19

Sat.

Sun.

21

Mon.

Thur. 25

Frid. 26

Sat. 27

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

SEP 28 NAAR & XRA

23

17

20

22

5མ་ཕབ་ལ-

21

20

28

Wed.

24

28

G

29

30

8

TRINITY SUNDAY. Attempted anti-foreigu riot at Kiukiang, 1891, Hongkong-Canton

Steamer "Powan" wrecked, 1908, Tornado in Maran, 1913.

Destruction of Mission premises at Wu-ich by anti-foreign mob, 1891.

Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & 0. steamer “Aden" wrecked off

Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1597

Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for

Peking, 1900.

Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1040.

Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.

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 Peking, 1900,

1ST AFTER TRINITY. Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu (Russo-Japan War);

Russians defeated with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guus, 1904.

Tidal Wave. Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896, British barque “ Casar” and Danish schooner **Carl” taken by pirates off Pedró Blanco, 1866, Hope Dook opened at Aberdeen 1867, Russian squadron sank Japanese transport “Hitachi,” bidly injured “Sado,” 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting cirrulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins,

Woosung taken, 1842.

First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1591. 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, 1802.

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.

2ND AFTER TRINITY, Massacre at Tientsia, 1870.

Cantonblockaded by English forces, 1840, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897. Ki-ying visits Hongkong, t&B 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.

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.

Treaty of Nanking

Additional Convention

Treaty between France and China signed, 1868, Confiscation of the str. "Prince Albert "

by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1865.

3RD AFTER TRINITY, Agreement cllected 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, 1893.

British expedition to China arrived, 1840, Opening of a section of the Shanghai and

Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasi;na coal mines, 1891.

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