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THE CALENDAR FOR 1926
APRIL-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st 15th
6h. 16m.
SUNSET 6h. 38m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1924
1925
...
6h. 04ın.
6h. 43m.
Maximum
...
74.4
70.0
...
Minimum
65.8
61.8
Mean
69.3
65.2
MOON'S PHASES
d.
h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1925
Last Quarter
6
50
A.M.
Mean
...
...
30.03
New Moon
12
56
P.M.
First Quarter .. Full Moon
20
7
23
A.M.
1924
RAINFALL
28
8
17 A.M.
...
1925 7.935 inches
Days of DAYS OF
WEEK
MONTH
2 & 3 MOONS
Thurs.
1
19
Fri.
2
20
Satur.
3
21
64
Sun.
22
Mon.
23
Tues.
6
24
Wed.
25
Thurs.
8
26
Fri.
27
Satur.
10
28
Sun.
Mon.
==
11
29
12
1
Tues.
13
2
Wed.
14
Thurs.
15
Frl.
16
Satur.
17
Sun.
18
7
Mon.
19
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
* 22 2
60
20
9
21
10
22
11
Fri.
23
12
Sat.
24
13
Sun.
25
14
Mon.
26
15
Tues.
27
18
Wed,
23
17
Thurs.
29
18
Fri.
20
19
6.215 inches
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
The port of Hoihow (in 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. GOOD FRIDAY. French flag hoisted at Kwang-chau-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory
opened at Hongkong, 1900.
Tai On" pirated between Hongkong and Kongmoon, 1913.
EASTER SUNDAY. Protoco arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris, 1885. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891.
EASTER MONDAY. Bogne Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. 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. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales visits Hongkong for two days on his way to Japan, 1922. Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow
Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1913.
Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886. Chinese Parliament inaugurated 1913. Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, 1878. Tartar
General at Canton assassinated, 1911.
37,000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng, 1890. LOW SUNDAY.
Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895. Russian flagship "Petropavlovsk" sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, includ- ing 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.
S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.
British Flag hoisted at Taipohui, Kowloon, Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. operations, 1908.
New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthur Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong, suspended
Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. Execution at Kowloon city of 19 pirates, including "Namoa" pirates, 1891. Treaty of Peace hetween China and Japan signed at Shimonoseki, 1895.
2ND AFTER EASTER. Convention between China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & O. steamer "San Pablo" wrecked near Turn- about, 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.
S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer "Asia" wrecked near Foochow, 1911.
Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 19 S. Capture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai- Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.
3RD AFTER EASTER. 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 demands exclusion of Germans from the Colony
after the War, 1917.
Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884.
Privy Counoil for Japan constituted by Imperial decree, 1888. Sir F. D. Lugard laid foundation stone of Hongkong Seamen's Institute, 1909. Daring piracy on the s.s. “Tai On" off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu, Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1904. Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.