THE CALENDAR FOR 1915
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...7h. 05m.
5h. 49m.
1913
1914
15th
.7h. 07m.
5h. 58m.
Maximum
.64.5
67.4
Minimum
.54.8
58.8
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
.59.2 62.8
a.
h. m.
Full Moon
1
8
20
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1914
Last Quarter
9
5
13
A.M.
Mean
..30.113
New Moon
15
10
42
P.M.
First Quarter
23
1
32
P.M.
1913
RAINFALL
Full Moon
31
0 41
P.M.
1.025 inches
1914 0.000 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Frid.
1
16
11
2728
23
2285
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 men, 546 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and de- stroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celebration of Western New Year, 1913. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Hongkong, 1913.
2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. 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 refused to submit the Maçao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841. Chinese Govt. Press Bureau
initiated, 1914.
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 Chantaboon, 1905. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan. Dolon-Nor, Chiufeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
18T AFTER EPIPHANY.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. Two Americans and one Finn hanged in Hongkong Gaol, 1905. H.E. The Gov- ernor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875. China's Parliament
dissolved, 1914.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention t
open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Volcanic eruptions and
tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan, 1914.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. “Yik Sing" lost
at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. 2nd after EpipHANY. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
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
near Woosung between P. & O. 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. Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.
P. & O. steamer “Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1868.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANT. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S.
corvette
23 "Oneida lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1970. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrifia
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses 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, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909 SEPTUAGESIMA. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption
at Taal, P.I., 1911.
Sat.
ลง
2
17
Sun.
3
18
Mon.
4
19
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
667 OQ
5
20
21
8
Sat.
9
24
Sun.
10
Mon. 11
26
"Tues. 12
27
Wed. 13
28
Thur. 14
29
Frid.
15
1
Sat.
16
2
Sun. 17
3
Mon. 18
4
'Tues. 19
5
Wed. 20
6
Thur.
21
Frid.
22
Sat. 23 Sun. 24
Mon.
25
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
Sun.
72** **N* ZA♫
7
8
9
10
11
26
12
27
13
28
14
29
15
30
16
31
17