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THE CALENDAR FOR 1923
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st ...
7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
1921
1922
15th ...
7h. 06m.
6h. 00m.
Maximum
...64.2
64.5
Minimum
...54.1
57.6
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...58.8 60.5
d.
h. m.
Full Moon
3 10
33
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1922
Last Quarter
Mean
...30.14
10
8
55
A.M.
New Moon
17
10
41
A.M.
First Quarter
25
11 59
A.M.
1921 0.195 inches
RAINFALL
1922 2.660 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
MOONS
WEEK
MONTH
Mon.
1
15
16
18
Tues.
Wed.
3
17
Thurs,
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
8
19
20
21
2 28 3
22
*3
Tues.
9
23
Wed.
10
24
Thurs.
11
25
Fri.
12
26
Satur
13
27
Sun.
14
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs. Fri.
Batur.
Sun.
Mon.
28
29
8 2 8-~ 65
12 SER 2
20
15
16
30
17
1
18
2
19
222 223
21
6
Tues.
23
XX
24
1-00
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
** ** *
25
9
26
10
27
11
28
12
29
13
Tues. Wed,
32233
30
14
31
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Chronology of REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 nien, 540 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 Celebration 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 Ilongkong 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 to submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hongkong places of worship and mass
meeting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919. EPIPHANY.
Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. 1ST AFTER EPIPHANT. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841. Chinese
Govt. Press Bureau initiated, 1914. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852.
British str. "Namchow" sunk off Cup Chi,
near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. Pre- sidert Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, 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. Strike of Seamen at Hongkong, which continued until March 5th and developed into a general sympathetic strike, 1922. 2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Vol. canic eruptions and tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan, 1914. 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. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
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Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. steamer Nepaul" and Chinese transport "Wan-nien. ching ": latter sunk and 80 lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
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3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors ar rived in London, 1877. Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911. Niphon lost off Amoy, 1865. Pitched battle between Police and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H, May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
P. & O. steamer
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.
SEPTUAGESIMA, Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation
of the Christian faith in China, 1733.
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.