THE CALENDAR FOR 1916
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JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
.5h. 39m.
7h. 03m.
1914
1915
.5h. 29m.
7h. 08m.
Maximum
...86.6
86.2
Minimum
...78.9
78.4
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
..82.0 81.6
d. h.
m.
New Moon
I
3
37
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1915
First Quarter
9
7
59
A.M.
Mean
29.82
Full Moon
16
5
42
A.M.
Last Quarter
22
9
16
P.M.
1914
RAINFALL
1915
New Moon
30 6 43
P.M.
12.225 inches
11.960 inches
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CHRONOLOGy of RemaRKABLE EVENTS
WEEK
MONTH
Thur.
1
Fri.
Sat.
20 19
2
2
3
3
Sun.
4
Mon.
5
5
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
10
6769 0
6
7
8
10
Sun.
11
11
Mon.
12
12
Tues. 13
13
Wed. 14
14
Thur. 15
15
ASCENSION DAY. Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agree- ment between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891. Canton-Samshui Railway completed.
Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Formal transfer of Formosa from
China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Kobinson murdered, 1900. Earthquake, at Manila, killing more than 2,00 persons, 1863. Death of Sir Arthur
Kennedy, 1883. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895. Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1886. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first O. & O. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs.
Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusueh, 1891. Communica- tion with Peking cut off, 1900. French str. A. Lebaudy pirated on West River, 1913. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed, and many lives lost,
1864.
Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiukiang, 1891. Hongkong-Canton steamier “Powan ”
wrecked, 1908. Tornado in Macao, 1913.
Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.
Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & O, steamer "Aden" wrecked oft
Sucotra, 78 lives lost, 1897-
Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for
Peking, 1900.
WHIT SUNDAY. Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640. 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 Ministér, murdered in Peking, 1900.
Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu (Russo-Japan War). Russians defeated
with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904.
Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896. British barqué "Cæsar” and Danish schooner “Carl” taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1866. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sa k Japanese transport Hitachi," bedly injured "Sado," 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting circulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins, 1914.
Woosung taken, 1842.
First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900.
Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.
TRINITY SUNDAY. Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and
10 wounded, 1862. 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 Hainan
city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908.
Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.
Canton blockaded by English forces,1840. Queen Victoria's DiamondJubilee celebration,1897.
Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan (Chinese Administration Council), 1914.
Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843. 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.
Frid. Sat. 17
16
16
17
Sun. 18
18
Mon.
19
19
Tues. 20
Wed. 21 Thur. 22
Frid.
2222
20
21
23
22 22*
23
Sat. 24
Sun. 25
225
24
25
Mon. 26
26
Frid.
Tues. 27 Wed. 28
Thur. 29
30
27
28
29
The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873.
Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.
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British expedition to China arrived, 1840. Opening of a section of the Shanghai and
Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891.
Lord Robert Cecil announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decid-
ed to prohibit trading with the enemy in China, 1915
Foundation stone of
Additional Convention
Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking
exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.
between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.
Treaty between France and China signed, 1868. Confiscation of the str. "Prince Albert "
by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1866, Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection
of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905.
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