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THE CALENDAR FOR 1923
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st 15th
...6h 27m. 5h. 47m.
1921 1922
...6h. 35m. 51. 40m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum Mean
75.5
74.1
...
...65.6
63.4
•
...€9.8
68.4
d. h. m.
Last Quarter
4 49
BAROMETER, 1922
A.M.
New Moon
8
11
27
Mean
30.13
P.M.
First Quarter
15
5
41
P.M.
1921
RAINFALL
Full Moon
23
8
58
P.M.
0.220 inches
1922 0.535 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 & 10
!
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thurs.
23
Fri.
Satur.
Sun. Mon.
Tues.
Wed. Thurs. Fri.
779
19
Satur.
10
Sun.
11
Mon.
12
5
Tues.
13
6
Wed.
14
7
24
* 385
25
20
*27
22
2-2
29
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
ALL SAINTS DAY. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1903. 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" of 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.
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. Indo-China
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits. Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914. Death of Li Hung-chang, 198)1.
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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 sunk. Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. German cruiser "Emden destroyed by H.M.A.8.”“Sydney at Cocos Island, 1914.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Assas- sination of Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915. Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901.
Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to provent 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 Kwang Hsu, 1908. Armistice celebrations in Hongkong, 1918.
H.M. gunboat "Guat" 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 $10,000,000, 1920.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910. Hongkong, Canton- and Macao Steamboat Co.'s 8.5. "Sui An" pirated on her way from Macao to Hongkong by 60 pirates, who had gone abord as passengers,
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 Hongkong 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 Anping, 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, 1016.
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.
Blake Pier,
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890. Revolt of
troops at Macao, 1910.
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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, 1992. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
* 2 2 2
15
16
9
17
10
18
11
19
12
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs
Fri.
Sat.
2= 2 **
20
13
21
14
22
15
16
24
17
Sun.
25
18
Mun.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
AN 8 8
24
19
27
2)
28
21
20
22
30
23