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FEBRUARY, 28 Days.
Chinese XXIX-XXXth Year, XIIth and Ist Moons.
During the month the thermometer continues low; but the dry bracing cold of the three preceding months is changed for a damp and chilly atmos- phere; the number of fine fair days is much diminished, and cloudy and foggy ones are more frequent in February and March than in any other months. The fog is sometimes so dense as to render objects invisible at a few yards' distance.
Day of Day of month.
moon.
1 f
20
2 s
21
3 S
22
4 in
23
5 t
24
Chronicle of events in China, &c.
Inhabitants of Hongkong declared to be British
subjects, 1841.
Sexagesima.
The Hyacinth enters the Harbor of Macao, 1840. Rebellion broke out at Lienchau, 1832.
6 w 25 Capt. Halcon, Span. envoy, arrived in Macao, 1840.
7 t
26
Sf
27
9
28
10 S
29
11 m
30
12 t
1
13 w
14 t
3
15 f
4
16 s
5
17 S
6
18 m
7
19 t
8
9
20 w
21 t
22 2
Snow fell in Canton, 1835. Shunchí died 1661.
Quinquagesima.
Kienlung died, 1795.
FIRST MOON, Chinese NEW YEAR.
Empress of China died, 1840. Elliot's second in- terview with Kishen, 1841. Ash Wednesday.
Gov. Si visits the U. S. ship Plymouth, 1849. Ports of Hongkong and Tinghái declared free, 1841. |First Sunday in Lent.
Boat of the Nemesis fired on at Wangtong, 1841.
10 Medical Missionary Society organized, Canton, 1838.
11
Hostilities with the English resumed, 1841.
13 {
22 f
23 s
12
24 S
125 m
14
26 t
15
127 w
16
23 t
17
Chusan evacuated by the British forces, 1841. 2d
Sunday in Lent.
Capt. Da Costa and lieut. Dwyer killed at Wang-
má-kok, 1849.
A Chinese executed before the factories, Canton,
1839. Bogue forts captured, 1841.