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THE CALENDAR FOR 1915
OCTOBER-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...6h. 16m.
6h. 10m.
1913
1914
15th
........6h. 21m.
6h. 02m.
Maximum
.80.3
81.2
MOON'S PHASES
Minimum
.72.2
74.3
dl. h.
Jn.
Mean
...76.1
77.5
Last Quarter
1
5
44
P.M.
New Moon
9
BAROMETER, 1914
5
42
A.M.
First Quarter
Mean
.29.947
15
9
51
P.M.
Full Moon
23
8
15
A.M.
1913
RAINFALL
1914
Last Quarter
31
0
40
P.M.
3.550 inches
6.450 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
8 & 9
WEEK
MONTI
MOONS
Frid.
1
23
The "
Sat.
Sun.
0100
9
24
3
25
Mon.
4
26
Tues. 5
27
Wed.
6
28
Thur. Frid.
1- 00
7
8
29 30
888
Sat.
9
1
Sun. 10
2
Mon. 11
3
Tues. Wed. 13
12
4
5
Thur. 14
6
Frid. 15 Sat.
7
16
8
Sun. 17
9
Mon. 18
10
Tues.
19
11
Wed.
Thur. 21
Frid.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues. 26
Wed. 27
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20
12
13
14
23
15
24
16
25
17
18
19
Thur. Frid. 29
28
20
21
Sat. 30 Sun.
22
31
23
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Hongkong Daily Press" started, 1857.
Inauguration of Hongkong College of Medicine, 1887. Hyogo declared an open port, 1892. Gold Standard adopted in Japan, 1897. British Section, Canton-Kowloow Railway opened, 1910. Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884.
18TH AFTER TRINITY. Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884. Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok, 1893. Withdrawal of British steamers from West River, 1900. Chinese National Assembly Inaugurated, 1910.
Attack on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884. Terrible fire at Amoy, 1902. Typhoon at
Hongkong, 1894. Canton-Kowloon Railway opened for through traffic, 1911. French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, 1866. Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir
William Des Vœux, 1987. Confucing born, B.C. 562.
Hongkong Government agreed to lend the Viceroy of Wuchang £1,100,000 to repurchase from an American syndicate the Canton-Hankow railway concession, 1905. H.R.11. Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Great public meeting at Hongkong to consider increase of crime in Colony, 1878. Chinese Court left Kaifengfu on its way to Peking, 1901. Hongkong Legislative Council passed a Bill to prevent trading with the enemy, 1914.
Supplementary Treaty signed at The Hague, 1848. French landing party at Tamsui repulsed, 1884. Death of Lady Robinson, wife of the Governor of Hongkong, 1894. Battle of Shaho, Russo-Japanese War, commenced. Ended 25th in disastrous defeats of Russians; casualties 45,800 Russian; 15,879 Japanese, 1904. Shanghai captured, 1841. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Rail- way, 1888. Wreck off the Pescadores of the Norwegian str, "Normand," with loss of all on board except two, 1892. Shanghai-Woosung Railway placed under Chinese control, 1904. 19TH AFTER TRINITY. Lord Napier died at Macao, 1834. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P. & O. str. "Bokhara, "with loss of 125 lives, 1892. Outbreak of Chinese Revolution at Wuchang, 1911. Yuan Shih Kai inaugurated President of the Chinese Republic, 1913. The first Chinese merchant str. (“Meifoo") left Hongkong for London with passengers to establish a Chinese firm there, 1891. Outbreak of revolution in China at Wüchang, 1911. Revolt in the Philippines, 1872. Eight Chinese baul s in Peking suspended payment, 1910. Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the Mikado, 1872. Allies capture Paolingfu, 1900. "Flora Templet" lost in the China Sea, with upwards of 800 coolies on board, 1859. Str. "Hankow" burnt at her wharf, Hong- kong, 75 deck passengers perishing, 1906.
Explosion on the Chinese trooper "Kungpai," loss of 500 lives, 1895. Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866.
20TH AFTER TRINITY. St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy on
board the British str. "Greyhound," 1885.
At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, a scheme
of reconstruction was approved, 1892.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1859. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1861. Japanese Government
welcomed American Battleship Fleet, 1908.
Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormous damage to property, 1882. The Shanghai and
Woosung railway closed by the Chinese Government, 1877.
H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolitan Dock opened, 1875.
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58 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M. ships "Columbine" and Fury," 1849. Hongkong Legislative Council voted $100,000 to the Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund, 1914.
King Chulalongkorn of Siam died, 1910.
21st after TRINITY. Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.
1900
Treaty of Whampoa between France and China signed, 1844. Kahding recaptured by
the Allies, 1862. Sir Claude Macdonald leaves Peking, succeeded by Sir E. Satow, Chin-lien-cheng taken by the Japanese, 1894.
Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection at Canton, 1895. Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited Hongkong, 1904. Massacre of four American Missionaries and a child at Lienchow, 1905. Prince Ito assassinated at Har- bin, 1909. Hon. Mr. W. D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, died suddenly whilst playing polo, 1911. Bomb, thrown in Canton, killed 37 people, 1914.
Portuguese frigate "D. Maria II." blown up at Macao, 1850.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese, 1894. Chinese Govera-
ment welcomed American Battleship Fleet at Amoy, 1908.
22ND AFTER TRINITY. II. R. H. Prince Alfred arrived at Hongkong, 1869. Talienwar
occupied by the Japanese, 1894.