THE CALENDAR FOR 1929
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4 & 5 MOONs
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st 15th
5h. 38m.
SUNSET 7h. 03m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
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1927
1928
5h. 38m.
7h. 08m.
Mean Maximum
85.9
84.3
...
Mean Minimum
78.7
76.5
...
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MOON'S PHASES
Mean
81.6
79.9
...
...
...
d.
h.
m.
Last Quarter ...
1
0
13 A.M.
New Moon
7
56 P.M.
Mean
...
A
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First Quarter...
Full Moon
14
1
14 P.M.
22
...
0
15 P.M.
1927
RAINFALL
Last Quarter
30
11
54 A.M.
11.680 inches
BAROMETER, 1928, AT SEA LEVEL
29.71 inches
1928 15.130 inches
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DAYS OF DAYS OF
WEEK
MONTH
Satur.
1
24
24
Sun.
2
25
Mon.
3
26
Tues. Wed.
44
2885
27
Thurs.
6
29
Fri.
7
1
Satur.
8
2
Suu.
∞
3
Mon.
10
10
569
Tues.
11
Wed.
12
Thurs.
13
23
Fri.
14
Satur.
15
Sun.
16
10
Mon.
17
11
Tues.
18
12
Wed.
19
13
Thurs.
20
14
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
24
18
Tues.
25
19
Wed.
26
20
Thurs.
27
21
Fri.
28
Satur.
Sun.
21
15
16
27223
223
23
17
29
80
82
222 * *
23
24
Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1811. Canton-Samshui Railway completed.
1ST AFTER TRINITY. Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Forinal transfer of Formosa from China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900. KING'S BIRTHDAY. Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1868.
Death of Sir Arthur Kennedy, 1883. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895.
Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1886. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first O. & O. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusueh, 1891. Communication with Peping cut off, 1900. French str. "R. Lebaudy " pirated on West River, 1913. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed, and many lives
lost, 1864. Death of Yuen Shih-kai, 1916.
Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiukiang, 1891. Hongkong-Canton steamer "Powan "
wrecked, 1908. Tornado in Macao, 1913.
Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.
2ND AFTER TRINITY. Suspension of New Oriental Balik, 1892. The P. & O. steamer
'Aden" wrecked off Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897.
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Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for Peping, 1900. Sir Robert Hart gazetted British Minister to China did not accept the appointment. Arrival in Hongkong of H.R.H. Prince Charles, heir to theRoumanian Throne, 1920.
Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.
Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.
British steamer "Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser, 1875. Imperial Edict condemning attacks on foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in Peking, 1900.
Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu Russo-Japan War. Russians defeated with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904. Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in an aeroplaue on June 14th, 1919. Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen, 1867. Train from Canton to Hongkong "held up," American missionary killed, 1916. Landslide at Happy Valley, fivc Chinese killed, 1925.
3RD AFTER TRINITY. WOOsung taken, 1842.
First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies,
1900. Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.
Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862.
Disastrous inundation at Foochow, 2,000 lives lost, 1877.
Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842. Attempted assassination at Shameen (Canton)
of M. Merlin, Governor-General of Indo-China, 1924.
Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mission premises at Hainan city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908. General Strike in Hongkong. 1925.
Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.
Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897. Coronation of King George, V., 1911. Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan, Chinese Administration Council, 1914.
4TH AFTER TRINITY. Shock of earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. Handsome new premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on the Bund, Shanghai, opened by H.B.M. Minister (Sir R. Macleay, K.C. M.G.), 1923. Attack on Shameen by Chinese, 1925. MIDSUMMER SUNDAY. Lord Robert Cecil announced in the House of Commons that the
Government had decided to prohibit trading with the enemy in China, 1915. Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. Treaty of Nanking exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. Foundation-stone of new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914.
Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858. Additional Convention
between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.
Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the str. "Prince Albert "
by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1866.
Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection
of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905.
The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873,
Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.
5TH AFTER TRINITY. British expedition to China arrived, 1840. Opening of a section of the Shanghai and Woosung Railway, 1876. Flooding of the Takasima coal mines, 1891. Squadron Leader Maclaren and Flying Officer Plenderleith reach Hongkong on their attempted flight round the world, 1924,