THE CALENDAR FOR 1919
APRIL-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
...6h. 16m.
6h. 38m.
..6h. 03m.
6h. 43m.
Maximum
1917 .73.5 75.0
1918
MOON'S PHASES
Minimum
d. h.
m.
Mean
..66.4
.69.4 70.4
67.0
New Moon
1
5
5
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1918
First Quarter
7
8
39
P.M.
Mean
29.96
Full Moon
15
4
25
P.M.
Last Quarter 23
7 21
P.M.
1917
RAINFALL
1918
New Moon
30
1 20
P.M.
5.230 inches
4.440 inches
DAYS OF
DATS OF
WEER
Mostи
3&4 MOONS
CHROXOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Tues.
1
1
Wed.
M
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
6
Mon.
7
Tues.
Wed.
1 burs.
10
10
Fri.
11
11
Satur.
12
12
Sun.
13
Mon.
14
Tues.
**
13
14
15
15
Wed.
16
16
Thurs.
17
17
Fri.
19
18
Satur.
19
Sun.
Mon.
21
Tues.
2 N
20
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10
20
21
22
Wed.
23
23
Thurs.
21
24
Fri.
Satur.
Sun. Mon.
25
* * NX
25
26
26
27
28
28
Tues.
29
20
Wed.
30
1
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The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wenchow, Wuhu and Ichang opened, 1877. B.N. Borneo adopted the Straits Settlements currency, 1905. Dowager Empress of Japan died, 1914.
French flag hoisted at liwang-chan-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory opened at Hong-
kong, 1900.
Tai On pirated between Hongkong and Kongmoon, 1913.
Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris,
1885. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891. Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghal, 1897.
Attempt to destroy with dynamite the Prince Regent's Palace at Peking, 1910. Convention between Sir John Francis Davis and the Viceroy Ki-ying for the admission
of Europeans into the city of Canton within two months, 1842.
Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow
Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1903. Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886, Chinese Parliament inaugurated 1913.
Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, 1878. Tartar
General at Canton assassinated, 1911.
37,000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng, 1890.
Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895. Russian flagship Petropavlovsk sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, including Admirał Makaroff, 1904.
PALM SUNDAY. Soldiers' Club opened at Hongkong, 1900.
Imperial Palace, Seoul, destroyed by fire, 1904. Aliens given the right to own land in Japan, 1910. S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.
British Flag hoisted at Taipohu, Kowloon New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong, suspended operations, 1908.
Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. Execution at Kowloon city of nineteen pirates, including "Namoa" pirates, 1891. Treaty of Peace between China and Japan signed at Shimonoseki, 1895.
GOOD FRIDAY, Convention between China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & O. steamer "San Pablo" wrecked near Turnabout, 1888. One-fourth of the opium divans at Shanghai closed, 1908. Town of Wagima, Japan, destroyed by fire, 1910,
The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830. The
Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891. EASTER DAY.
EASTER MONDAY. Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897.
East India Company ceased trade with China, 1834. Arrival of Governor J. Pope Hennessy in Hongkong, 1877. Opening of new commercial port of Heungchow near Macao, 1909. Bank of China authorised to issue $3,000,000 in subsidiary notes, 1915. S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer daia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.
Cap-
Chinese Imperial Edict issued diaranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1908.
ture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.
FESTIVAL OF S. MARK. Foundation stone of Queen's College, Hongkong, laid, 1884.
Contract for Quintuple Loan of £25,000,000 signed at Peking, 1913.
A crowded public meeting in Hongkong den ands exclusion of Germans from the Colony
after the War, 1917.
Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884.
Privy Council for Japan constituted by Imperial decree, 1888. Sir F. D. Lugard laid foundation stone of Hongkong Seamen's Institute, 1909. Daring piracy on the 8,8, “Tai On” off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu; Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1901-
Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.