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FEBRUARY-20 DAYS.

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THE CALENDAR FOR 1884.

MARCH-31 DAYS.

MOON'S PHASES.

HONGKONG

TEMPERATURE.

1882.

1893.

d. h. TH. see.

d.

1. 11. sec.

Maximum. Minimum

.72 13

Maximum. Minimum

70

49

First Quarter

+

BAROMETER, 1833.

Maximum.

30.39.1

Minimum............. 29.996

Full Moon 12 3

9 09 41 P.M.

16 40

A.M.

Last Quarter 20

New Moor

6 49 40 A.M.

27

1 23 45 P.M.

DAYS DAYS

DAYS

OF THE

OF THE OF THE

1st & 2nd

Memoranda.

DAYS

OF THE OF THE

DATS DAYS

OF THE

2nd & 3rd

Chronology of Remarkable Events.

WEEK. MONTH. MOONS.

+

Frid.

1

Sat.

1

Sat

2

Sun.

2

WEEK. MONTH. MOONS.

St. David's day. H.M. steamer "Inflexible," with Viceroy Yeh on board, arrived at

Bingapore en route for Calcutta, 1659.

let in Lent, First Dutch Embassy left China, 1857.

Sun.

7

Mon.

3

Great Fire in Foochow, 1877. Imperial Decree sentencing Ch'ung How to death by

decapitation, 1880.

Mou.

Tues.

4

8

7

Collision between the "Ocean" and "Fusing," and loss of the latter with many

lives,

1876.

Tues.

Wed.

5

8

9

Expulsion of Chinese Custom House from Macao by Governor Amaral, 1810.

Thur.

Wed.

9

G

10

Hostilities at Canton recommenced. Fort Napier taken by the Englieb, 1811.

Frid.

7

10

Thur.

Departure of Governor Sir J. P. Hennessy from Hongkong, 1892.

7

11

Sat.

8

11

Frid.

12

Stew

9

12

Sat.

9

13

Mon.

10

13

Sun.

10

14

Tues. 11

14

Mon. 11

15

Wed. 12

15

Tucs.

12

16

Thur. 13

16

Wed. 13

17

Frid. 14

17

Thur.

14

18

Sat.

15

18

Governor Robinson left Hongkong for Ceylon, 1885.

Frid,

Sun. 16

19

15

19

Sat.

Mon. 17

20

16

20

Lord Macartney's Embassy left China, 1794. Catevaro" burut at ses by the coolies, 1888.

Tues.

18

21

Sun.

17

21

Wed.

19

22

Mon.

18

22

Thur.

20

23

Tues.

19

23

Frid.

British ship

21

24

Wed.

20 24

Sat.

22

25

Commercial treaty concluded between the United States and Japan, 1851. The "Jeddo,"

after passing Abjer, was burut at ses by the coolics, 1667.

2nd in Lent, Attack on Messrs. Farnham and Roll at Shanghai, 1872.

Lin arrived in Canton, 1839. 12,000 Chinese troops attacked the English in Ningpo and

Chin-hai and were repulsed with great slaughter, 1842,

Gov. MacDonnell arrived in Hongkong, 1866.

Imperial Commissioner Ki-chen, degraded by the Emperor, left Cauton as & prisoner

1911. Opening of new Gerinan Bethesda Chapel, Hongkong, 1881. Chinese Custom House clused at Macao, 1940).

8,000 Chinese troops routed by the English at Tze-hi, with great slaughter, 1812 Out-

rage on French Sailors in Japan, 1868.

3rd in Lent. Chinese Envoy Ping and suite left Shanghai for Europe, 1888. St. Patrick's Day.

Governor of Canton accedes to the request of Captain Elliot to reside in that city, 1837.

Edict of Commissioner Lin to surrender all opium in Canton, 1839. Gor. Bonham landed at Hongkong, 1848. Mutiny ou board the coolie ship "Robert

Brown, captain and part of the crew murdered, 1852.

"Sarah," first free-trader, sailed from Whampoa, 1834, "Salamis" and II.M, gunboat "Oposanm," with the Shanghai Chamber Deputies, loft Hankow to explore the Upper Yangteze, 1869.

The "Napoleon

H.M.S.

Thur.

21

Frid.

22

Sat.

23

2 2 2

25

Sun.

23

26

26

Mon.

24

27

A in Zent. Captain Elliot forced his way to Canton, 1839. Death of Major-General Brunker, coininander-in-chief of H.M.a forces in China and Japau, 1869. Mr. W. F. Mayers, Chinese Secretary of H.B.M.'s Legation at Teking, at Shanghai, 1678.

Death of

27

Tues. 25

28

St.

Captain Elliot demande passports for himself and all the British subjects imprisoned in

Canton, 18:30.

2.4

28

Mon.

Wed. 26

29

Great Flood at Foochow, 1874.

25 29

Tues,

26 30

Thur.

27 Frid. 28

1

2

Wed.

Amoy, 1876.

Death of the low of the Emperor Tung-chi, 1875. Feath of the HOD. H. A. K

Whampon, C.M.G., M.L.C., at Singapore, 1880, 20,290 Chests of Opium burned by Lin, 1839.

Wreck of the "Yuen-tic-fee"

near

27

Sat.

29

Memorial of Shangbai Chamber of Commerce to Lord Elgin, 1859,

Thur.

23

Frid.

29

Co to

Sun.

80

3

Mor. 31

5

5th in Leut. Attack upon the British bark ** Elizabeth Childs," by Chinese pirates al out

40 miles from Hongkong, 1879. Arrival of Governor Bir Gierge Bowen, G.C.31,0., in Hongkong, 1983.

Inaugurat on of new British Consulate at Shanghai, 1873.

at Mrers, 16*1. Gept Dirant Fonchow: 500 houses destroyed, 1879,

Abolition of the Coolie trade