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THE CALENDAR FOR 1883.

MAY-31 DAYS.

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Chronology of Remarkable Events.

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Telegraphic communication

St. Philip and St. James' day. First number of Hongkong Gazette published, 1841.

Prince Heinrich of Germany visits Hongkong, 1880. established between Hongkong and the Philippines, 1880.

Ascension Day.

Riot in French Concession at Shanghai, 1874.

Borlase raid at Swatow, 1861. British troops evacuated Ningpo, 1842. The "Dolore

Ugarte," coolie ship, burnt near Macao, 1871.

Sun. after Ascension. Attack on Mr. Wood at the British Legation at Tokio, 1874.

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British ship "Dunmail wrecked entering Hongkong harbour, 1870. Prince Kung's

honours restored, 1865.

Colonel Gordon with the Imperial troops captured Chang-chow, the rebel city, 1864.

Arrival in Hongkong of Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, 1880.

East India Co.'s garden at Canton destroyed by the Mandarins, 1831. Foo-yuen and

Hoppo forcibly enter the Company's factory at 7 a.m., 1831.

Whit Sunday. A corporal of the British Legation barbarously murdered by Chinese

soldiers at Peking, 1864.

Assassination in Tokio of Mr. Okubo Toshimichi, Minister of the Home Department,

1878.

Ratification at Peking of the amended Treaty between Russia and China, 1881.

Loss off Amoy of the French war steamer "Izere," 1860. Arrival of General Grant in

Shanghai, 1879.

The city of Chapu taken by the British troops, 1842.

The Select Committee issued a notice that the British trade would be suspended on the

first of August, 1831.

Trinity. Forts at mouth of Peiho captured by British and French forces, 1858.

German barque "Lesmona" captured by pirates in the China Sea, 1868.

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Delivery of 20,283 chests Opium completed, 1839. Tornado at Taiwan, Formosa, 1878. British ship "Hellas captured by pirates, Captain and crew wounded, 1840. Foreign factories at Canton pillaged, 1841. Treaty between the United States and Korea signed at Rensan, 1882.

U. F. A. Legation at Tokio burned down, 1863. P. & O. steamer "Benares" lost on

Fisherman's Group, 1868.

Corpus Christi. Queen Victoria born, 1819. Captain Elliot and all the British subjects left Canton for Macao, 1839. Collision between the P. & O. steamer "Khedive" and the Dutch mail steamer "Vorwaarts," near Penang, 1878.

The city of Canton invested by British troops, 1841.

Murder of Mr. Blacklock on board the steamer "Donglas" at Foochow by Chinese smug-

glers, 1875. Death of Grand Secretary Wen-siang, 1376. 1st after Trinity. Canton ransomed for $6,000,000, 1841.

Loss of steamer "Douglas," 1872. "Maria Luz," coolie ship, put into Japan, coolies

liberated and sent back to China, 1872.

Loss of steamer " 'Elgin' on the Bombay shoal, when bound from Hongkong to Saigon,

1881.

Mr. Lindsay delivered the keys of the Company's factory at Canton to Kwan-Heep, 1831. H.B.M. screw sloop "Reynard" lost on the Pratas shoal in trying to rescue remainder of crew of "Velocipede," 1861. "Opossum," with Yangtsze Exploring Expedition, returned to Hankow, 1869.

Typhoon at Hongkong and Macao; loss of the "Poyang," with 100 lives, near Macao, 1875,