THE CALENDAR FOR 1920
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JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st...
...
5h. 38m.
7h. 03m.
1918
1919
15th
5h. 39m.
7h. 08m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum Mean
...
...83.6
87.0
...76.5
79.4
...
...
d.
h.
m.
Full Moon
2
1
18
A.M.
Last Quarter
10
2
58
A.M.
New Moon
16
9 41
P.M.
First Quarter
23
2
49
P.M.
DAYS OF DAYS OF
4 & 5
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
...79.5 82.6
BAROMETER, 1919
Mean
...
...
...29.72
1918
24.795 inches
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
1919 10.815 inches
RAINFALL
Tues.
1
15
Wed,
Q
16
Thurs.
3
17
Fri.
18
Satur.
19
Sun.
20
Mon.
7
21
Tues.
Wed,
99
Thurs.
10
Fri.
11
Satur.
12
Sun.
13
2*** 22
**
22
23
25
26
27
Mon.
14
28
Tues.
15
29
24
12
L
Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891. Canton-Samshui Railway completed
11ongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Formal transfer of Formosa from
China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900. Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 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. R. Lebaudy pirated on West River, 1913. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed, and many lives lost,
1864. Death of Yuen Shih-kai, 1916.
Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiukiang, 1891, Hongkong-Canton steamer “Powan”
wrecked, 1508. 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 off
Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897.
Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876.
Peking, 1900.
Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.
Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.
Admiral Seymour starts for
British steamer "Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser, 1875. Imperial Edict condemning attacks on foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, 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. Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in an aeroplane on June 14th, 1919. Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896. British barque "Cæsar" and Danish schooner "Carl" taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1866. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867. Russian squadron sank Japanese transport "Hitachi," badly injured "Sado,” 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting circulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins, 1914. Train from Canton to Hongkong "held up," American missionary killed, 1916.
Woosung taken, 1842.
First foreign owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900.
Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.
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 Diamond Jubileecelebration, 1897. Coronation of King George, V., 1911. Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan, Chinese Administration Council, 1914.
Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843. Shock of earthquake in Hongkong, 1374. French troops surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1884. Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters, sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905.
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
Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republie, 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.
Additional Convention
Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. 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.
The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873.
Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.
British expedition to China arrived, 1840. Opening of a section of the Shanghai and
Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891.
Wed. Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
18
19
Sun.
20
16
17
9 2 22
3
4
Mon.
21
6
Tues.
22
•Wed.
23
Thurs.
24
9
Fri.
25
10
:Satur.
26
11
Sun.
27
12
Mon.
28
13
Tues.
29
14
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*30
15