6
THE CALENDAR FOR 1882.
JANUARY-31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES.
(For Civil Mean Time at Hongkong.)
Full Moon
4
d. h.
6 34 43
m. 860.
d. h. m. sec.
A.M. | New Moon 20
Last Quarter 12
11 23 41
A.M.
First Quarter 26 03 20
00 11 38 A.M.
44 A.M.
DAYS DAYS
OF THE OF THE
DAYS
OF THE
11th 12th
WEEK. | MONTH MOONS.]
Chronology of Remarkable Events.
Sun.
1
12
lat after Christmas, lliego and Osaka opened, 1868.
Russia opened, 1872.
Overland Telegraph through
Mon.
2
13
Tues.
3
14
Wed.
4
15
Thur.
5
16
Frid.
6
17
Sat.
7
18
Sun.
8
19
Mon.
9
20
Tues.
10
21
Wed. 11
22
Thur. 12
23
Frid.
13
24
Sat.
14
25
Sun.
15
26
Mon.
16
27
Tues. 17
28
Wed.
18
29
Thur. 19
30
Frid. 20
1
Sat.
21
2
Sun.
22
3
Mon. 23
4
Tues. 24
Wed.
25 Thur. 26
6
7
Frid.
27
8
Sat.
28
9.
Sun.
29
10
Mon.
30 11
Tues.
31
12
The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1700.
Imperial Decree disgae 'ing Ch'ung How issued, 1880.
Lin Teihsu appointed Commissioner, 1839. Li Sing-yuen appointed Imperial Commis-
sioner in Kwangsi. 1851.
Great Fire at Tokio, 1870.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang.prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1958.
Epiphany. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,100 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878, Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
Lady
1st after Epiphany. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. Gunner of the “
Hughes" strangled at Canton, 1785. Execution of Li Yung-choi, the rebel leader in Kwangsi, 1890.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak 1969. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869. Several chests of Opium forcibly taken by the Mandarins from an English resident -in
Canton, 1838,
Sir R. Alcock left Hongkong for England, 1870. Seamen's Church, West Point, opened,
1872.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875,
Ki-ying, Viceroy of K-vang-tune and Kwang-si, usquez a proclamation recommending moderatin in dealing with foreigners, and intimating the int ntion of opening up Can. ton according to the Treaties, 1546.
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokio, 1871.
2nd after Epiphany. Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857. H.I,H. the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia returned to Hongkong from Nagasaki, 1973. Meeting of Shanghai,
Steam Navigation Company at which it was resolved to sell ships and plant to China Merchants' Company, 1877. Total loss of the E, & A. M. steamer “Singapore” off the Cumberland Islands, 1877,
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1887.
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally opened, 1863. The Frederic" burnt by the Coolies, 1870. Chang How and Suite returned to China from France, 1872.
Steamer "Corea" lost on her voyage to Yokohama, 1887. Sir Edmund Head died, 1848, Attack on Lieut. Kerr and the boat of the "Cockchafer" at Swatow, 1869, British barque "Chinaman run into by steamer “Craiglands" when at anchor at the mouth of the Yangtze, and sunk; seven lives lost, 1881.
*
3rd after Epiphany. The Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1977. Mr. Ng Choy
appointed member of Legislative Council, Hongkong, 1880.
P. & O. steamer "Xiphon," lost off Amoy, 1868.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U., corvette * Oneida” lost
amg. 1870, through collision with P. & 0, steamer “ Bombay," near Yok Instructions from Lord Falmer ton to Lord Napier, superintendent of British Trade in China, 1834. Hongkong taken possession of, 18ší. Št. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific fire at Tokio ; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lust, 1881. Establishment of Amoy Chamber of Commerce, 1876.
Hoang-tsung-han appointed Imperial Commissioner at Canton, 1855.
4th after Epiphany Decree from Yang-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the pro- pagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733. Loss of steamêr “ Suwonada,” 1872. Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. H.I.H. the Grad
Duke Alexis left for Manila, 1873.
First arrival of the “ Colorado" from San Francisco, 1887. Loss of the C. M. Co,'a str.
'Howsang" off Dodd Island, near Amoy, 1878,
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