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THE CALENDAR FOR 1922
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...6h 27m. 5h. 47m.
1920 1921
15th
...6h. 36m. 51. 40m.
Maximum
75.0
75.5
Minimum
...67.4 65.6
1
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...
...70.9 69.8
d. h. m.
Full Moon
5
2 36
BAROMETER, 1921
A.M.
Last Quarter
Mean
12
3
52
...
...
30.10
P.M.
New Moon
19
8
6
A.M.
1920
RAINFALL
First Quarter
26
15
P.M.
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 & 10
7.045 inches
Chronology OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
1921 0.220 inches
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Wed.
1
13
Thurs.
~
14
Fri.
3
Satur.
49
15
16
Sun.
17
Mon.
Tues.
Wed. Thurs.
=
789
12
19
20
21
ALL SAINTS. The port of Quinhon, Anuam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. All Germans in Hongkong of Military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. Presidential mandate issued denouncing Sun Yat-sen, 1914. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston off North Luzon. Wireless telegraph service
opened between Macao and Hongkong. 1920.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884. Pacific Mail S.S. withdrawn owing to the La
Folette Seaman's Act coming into force in the U.S.A., 1915.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kuomintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 members of Parliament, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette," 1860.
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
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Indo-China
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and "Canton City" gunk. Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. Twelve people killed by a bomb in Canton, 1914. German cruiser "Einden" destroyed by H.M.A.S. “Sydney
"
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Assag- sination of Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915. Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
at Cocos Island, 1914.
Fri.
10
22
Satur.
11
23
Sun.
12
24
Mon.
13
25
Tues.
14
26
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
17
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
* 9 * 2 27 2
15
27
16
88
28
29
18
30
19
1
20
21
20 2
22
Thurs. Fri.
Sat.
23
24
323
LO CO
25
25
7
Sun.
Mon.
AN
26
8
27
9
Tues.
28
10
Wed.
29
11
Thurs.
30
12
H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwaug Hsu, 1908. Armistice celebrations in Hongkong, 1918.
H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Rail-
way, 1903. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Important Harbour Improvement works at Macao announced, involving an expenditure
of over ten million dollars, 1920.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several
hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910.
Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from
Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911.
Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Resignation en bloc of unofficial members of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licences of the Peak and Grand Hotels, 1915.
Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hongkoug which lasted seven weeks, 1912. Death of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, 1915.
Capture of Auping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871, Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890. Terrible floods in Chihli; Hong.
kong voted $100,000 towards relief of distress, 1916.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871,
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
troops at Macao, 1910.
Blake Pier,
Revolt of
ST. ANDREW'S DAY. ST. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna" in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu. tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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