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THE CALENDAR FOR 1919
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
.7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
1917
1918
........7h. 06m.
5h. 59m.
Maximum
.60.7
59.2
Minimum
..51.7
49.8
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
.55.8
54.0
d. h.
m.
New Moon
2
4
24
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1918
First Quarter
Mean
.30.27
9
6
55'
P.M.
Full Moon
16
4
44
P.M.
1917
RAINFALL
1918
Last Quarter
24
0
22
P.M.
0.345 inches
0.010 inches -
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Wed.
1
30
Thurs.
1
Fri.
Satur.
2
3
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
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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, 1005. 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.
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 Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
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 eyacuated Chantaboon, 1905. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan, Dolou-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919, Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. II.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909. 1ST AFTER EPIPHANY, 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 to 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.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. 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, 1901. 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, 1865. Pitched battle between Police and
robbers in Cresson St., Hongkong, 1918.
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*** 4 ** 2
20
232 2 2 2
16
15
Fri.
17
16
Satur.
18
17
Sun.
19
18
Fri.
10
Satur.
11
10
8
* **
Sun.
12
11
Mon,
13
12
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
14
13
15
14
Thurs.
Mon.
Tues,
21
20
Wed.
22
21
Thurs.
23
22
Fri.
24
23
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U. S. corvette
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870, Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
"Oneida
"1
Satur.
25
24
Sun.
26
25
Mon.
27
26
Tues.
28
27
Wed.
29
Thurs.
30
Fri.
.31
29 2 2 2
28-
29
30
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrific
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 Chiña, 1783.
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 inCanton: 100 lives lost, 1909,
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1994; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.