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THE CALENDAR FOR 1890.
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
d.
7.
1887.
1888.
m.
sec.
Last Quarter 4
11
49 41
P.M.
Maximum
....78
78
New Moon 12
9
13
46
P.M.
Minimum
..56
59
First Quarter 19
8
20
46
P.M.
Full Moon
26
8 58 48
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1888.
Max.
.30.00 Min. ....29.00
APOGEE, 5 days, 5 hours, A.M. PERIGEE, 19 days, 1 hour,
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 & 10
WEEK. MONTH. MOONS.
1887.
RAINFALL.
A.M.
0.07 inch.
1888. 0.77 inch.
Sat.
1
19
Sun.
2
20
Mon.
Tues.
في حي
3
21
4
22
Wed.
5
23
Thur.
6
24
Chronology of Remarkable Events.
All Saints. The port of Quin-hon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. 22nd after Trinity. All Souls. Chinese lighthouse tender Fei-hoo" captured by
French, 1884.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839.
Great fire at Swatow; several hundred houses destroyed, 1887. Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860 English and French treaties promulgated by the Peking Gazette, 1860.
Frid.
7
25
Sat.
8
Sun.
9
2 2
26
Mon.
10
28
Tues.
11
29
Wed.
12
1
Thur.
13
2
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Frid.
14
3
Sat.
15
4
Sun.
16
5
Mon.
17
6
Tues.
18
7
Wed. 19
8
Thur.
20
9
Frid.
21
10
Sat,
22
11
Sun. 23
12
Mon.
24
13
Tues.
25
14
Wed. 26
15
Thur. 27
16
Frid. 28
17
Sat.
29
18
Sun.
30
19
27
23rd after Trinity. The French repulsed in Cores, 1866. Celebration, with great pomp,
of the Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887,
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887, H.M.8. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 108 only 9 saved, 1864. Death
of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonquin, 1886, Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860.
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H.M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. Wah
Yeung" by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. 24th after Trinity. H.R.H. Prince Alfred left Hongkong, 1869.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843.
Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867. Ch'ung How arrived in Hongkong en route for France
as special Ambassador, to explain the Tientsin Massacre, 1870,
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed, and several
hundred lives lost, 1887.
Portuguese Custom house at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died 1863.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864.
Great fire at Canton, 1,400 houses destroyed, 1835. Terrible boiler explosion on board
the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877.
25th after Trinity. Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in
the Bacchante at Woosung, 1881.
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Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1888. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1857,
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin, June 21st, 1870,–1871. Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1887.
Murder of captain and four men of the British barque "Crofton," near Ku-lan, 1869, 1st in Advent. St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
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