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THE CALENDAR FOR 1922
JANUARY-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
...
1st 15th...
...
7h. 03m.
SUNSET 5h. 50m.
...
7h. 06m.
6h. 00m.
Maximum Minimum
...
...
1920 ...64.9
1921
64.2
...54.3 54.1
...
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...59.1
58.8
d.
...
...
...
h.
m.
First Quarter
6 6
24
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1921
Full Moon
13
10
36
Mean
...30.21
P.M.
...
Last Quarter
20
2
P.M.
1920
RAINFALL
1921
New Moon
28
7 48
A.M.
DAYS OF DAYS OF
12 & 1
0.065 inches
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
0.195 inches
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Sun.
1
4
Mon.
Tues.
A
Wed.
Thurs.
5
Fri.
6
9
Satur.
7
10
Sun.
8
11
Mon.
9
Tues.
10
Wed.
11
14
Thurs.
12
Fri.
13
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
5
8
00
231
15
16
17
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22
2223
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Kobe and Osaka opened, 1865. 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, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sen as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celcbration 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 te submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hongkong places of worship and masa
mesting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
EPIPHANY. 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.
1ST AFTER ÉPIPHANY. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Nam-
chow"
sunk off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North Chins open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Tao- nanfu, Licngkow, Hulutao, 1919.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.
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.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. 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. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841.
opened, 1863.
Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
Attempt to sct 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.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Ainoy, 1868. Pitched battle between Police and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H. May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
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Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U. S. corvette "Oneida
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay,' near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrifio
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 China, 1733.
4TH AFTER EPIPHANY. Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol withdrawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909.
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.
244 17 23
14
15
18
16
19
20
18
21
19
22
20
23
Batur.
21
24
Sun,
22
25
Mon.
Tues.
**
23
26
24
27
Wed.
25
28
Thurs.
26
29
Fri.
27
30
Sat.
28
N.Y.
Sun.
29
Mon.
30
Tues.
31
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