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OCTOBER, 31 Days.
Chinese Ist Year, Intercalary and IXth Moons.
Northerly winds prevail throughout this month, occasionally veering to north- east or northwest; but the temperature of the atmosphere is neither so cold nor so dry as in the following months; neither does the northerly wind blow so constantly-southerly and easterly winds intervening every now and then. The winter usually sets in with three or four days of light drizzling rain.
Days of Days of
month
1 w
24 3 f
moon.
༢. 10 11.
15:12
Ztu
13
8 w W 14 9 th 15 10 f 16 +17
12 S8
13 th 19
14 tu
20
15 w 16 th
21
17 f
23
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Chronicle of events in China, &c.
Tinghái retaken,,184i; -
Rev. JA. Gonçalves died, 1841.
16th Sunday after Trinity.
commissioner of U.S.A. arrived, 1847.
A.H. Everett Comm
4
Supplementary Treaty signed at the Bogue, 1843.
Chimhái Taken, 1841.
Lörd Napier, died at Macao, 1834.
Halley's comet observed in Canton, 1835. 17th
Sunday after Trinity.
Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841.
Yukien, imperial commissioner in Chehkiáng,
committed suicide, 1841.
t
19 S
24
1
25 18th Sunday after Trinity
26
20 m 21 tu 27
22 w 23
23 th 29
21 f
25 8
2
26 S
3
27 m
4
28 tu
10
5
Strs. Nemesis and Phlegethon go to Yüyáu, 1841.
58 piratical vessels destroyed by Capt. Hay, 1849.
NINTH MOON. Treaty of Whampoa between France
and China signed, 1844.
(In Canton, 1200 houses and 3 factories burnt, 1843.
19th Sunday after Trinity.
Mohammedan year 1268 commences.
(Terranova executed by the Chinese, 1822. Admiral
Collier died at Hongkong, 1849.
29 w
30 th
31f
70