THE CALENDAR FOR 1915
21
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
.6h. 29m.
5h. 55m.
1913
1914
..........6h. 37m.
5h. 39m.
Maximum
.74.0
73.5
Minimum
..66.0
66.4
Mean
....70.0 69.9
MOON'S PHASES
d.
h.
n.
BAROMETER, 1914
New Moon
7
3
52
P.M.
Mean
..29.963
First Quarter
14
7
03
A.M.
Full Moon
22
1 36
A.M.
1913
RAINFALL
Last Quarter
30
6 10
A.M.
0.740 inches
1914 8.815 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
9 & 10
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Mon.
1
24
Tues.
2
25
Wed. 3
26
Thur. 4
27
Fri.
5
28
Sat.
6
29
Indo-China
Sun.
7
Mon.
8
Tues. 9
123
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1870. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. All Germans in Hongkong of Military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. Presidential mandate issued denouncing Sun North Luzon. Yat-sen, 1914,
Wreck of the U.S. cruiser “Charleston
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pce, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860
President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kucmintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 members of Parliament, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1800.
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
23rd After TRINITY. Fall of Tsingtau 10 Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. "Sandpiper" and "Canten City sunk. Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. Twelve people killed by a bomb in Canton, 1914. German cruiser “Emden ” destroyed by H.M.A.S. “Sydney at Cocos Island, 1914.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. H.M.S. "Racehorse” wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910.
Hongkong first lighted by gas,
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
interrupted, 1909.
1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration
of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908.
H. M. gunboat "Guat" lost on the Palawan, 1868.
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Destruction of the str. "Wah Yeung" by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 1903. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Wed.
Thur.
2=
10
4
11
5
Frid. 12
6
Sat.
13
77
Sun.
14
8
24TH AFTER TRINITY.
Mon.
15
9
Tues. 16
10
Wed. 17
11
Thur. 18
12
Frid.
19
13
Sat.
20
Sun.
21
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
27 2* **
14
15
22
16
23
17
24
18
25
19
Frid.
26
20
Sat. 27
21
Sun. 28
22
Mon. 29
23
Tues. 30
24
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several
hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910. Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863. 25TH AFTER TRINITY. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor
Sir Henry Blake from Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911. Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877.
Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hongkong which lasted seven weeks, 1912. Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839. Chinese
ferry launch sunk by collision in Hongkong harbour, 50 drowned, 1913.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder of
the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
ADVENT SUNDAY. Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Blake Pier, Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Opening of the Japanesc Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890. Revolt of
troops at Macao, 1910,
S. ANDREW'S DAY. S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna" in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu- tionists and Imperialists, 1911.