THE CALENDAR FOR 1922
APRIL-30 DAYS
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SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
...6h. 16m.
6h. 38m.
1920
1921
...
...
...6h. 04m.
6h. 43m.
Maximum
...
...73.3
76.4
Minimum
...66.5
68.7
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...69.3
...
71.9
d. h.
m.
First Quarter
5
1
46
BAROMETER, 1921
P.M.
Mean...
Full Moon
...
..29.98
12
4
44
A.M.
Last Quarter
19
8
54
A.M.
New Moon
27
1
4
P.M.
1920 8.265 inches
RAINFALL
1921
2.820 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
3&4
WEEK
MON ru
MOONS
Satur.
1
པ་
Sun.
5
Mon.
3
7
Tes.
8
5
Wed.
9
Thurs.
10
Fri.
11
Satur.
8
12
Sun.
9
13
Mon.
10
14
Tues.
11
15
Wed.
12
16
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
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.
5TH IN LENT, French flag hoisted at Kwang-chan-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory opened
at llong kong, 19 0.
Tai On pirated between Hongkong and Kongnioon, 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, 1647. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai, 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.
PALM SUNDAY. Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost,.
1878. Tarta General at (anton 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 Admiral Makaroff, 1904. Soldiers' Club opened at Hongkong, 1900. Imperial Palace, Seoul, destroyed by
fire, 1904. Aliens given the right to own land in Japan, 1910.
GOOD FRIDAY. S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.
Thurs.
13
17
Fri.
14
18
Satur.
15
19
Sun.
16
20
EASTER DAY.
Mon.
17
21
Tues.
18
22
22
22
23
23
262
Wed.
19
Thurs.
Fi.
Satur.
22 23
20
24
21
25
22
26
Sun.
23
27
Mon.
24
28
12
Tues.
25
29
Wed.
26
30
Thurs. Fri,
27
28
Sat.
2230
29
Sun.
British Flag hoisted at Taipohu, Kowloon New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthurr Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong, suspended operations, 1908.
EASTER MONDAY. 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.
Convention between China and Japan settling. Corean differences signed at Tientsin,.
1885. The O. & O. steainer "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.
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. 1ST AFTER EASTER. S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer Asia wrecked near Foochów, 1911..
Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1908. Capture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai- Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.
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 ads exclusion of Germans from the Colony
after the War, 1917.
Appointed by Chinesc 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 lnstitute, 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.
2ND AFTER EASTER, Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.