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THE CALENDAR FOR 1891

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WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Thur.

1

21

Frid.

2

22

Sat.

3

23

Sun.

24

Mon.

5

25

Tues.

6

26

Wed.

27

Thur.

28

Frid. Sat.

9

29

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st 15th

.6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1889

1890

.6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum

.68

69

.50

46

d. h. m.

sec.

47

49

P.M.

10 11

0

45

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1890.

53 45

P.M.

Max.......30.32

Min......29.90

1 43 A.M.

10 hours, A.M. 11 hours, P.M.

1889

0.73 inch

RAINFALL

1890

1.79 inches

Last Quarter 3 5

New Moon First Quarter 17 1 Full Moon

25

PERIGEE, 12 days, APOGEE, 27 days,

DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12

878

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE Events

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872.

Establishment of bonded warehouses in Shanghai, 1888. The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1706. Imperial Decree disgracing Ch'ung How issued, 1880. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative Council, 1884.

2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member

of the Legislative Council, 1884.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner

Yeh captured, 1858.

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.

Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. Gunner of the "Lady Hughes” strangled at

Canton, 1785.

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1869,

10

1

Sun. 11

2

1st after EPIPHANY. Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872.

Mon.

12

Tues.

13

2 3

3

Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875.

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang issues a proclamation intimating the intention of

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

Wed. 14

5

Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Thur. 15

6

Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.

Frid. 16 Sat.

17

Sun. 18

189

7

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

Mon.

19

10

Tues.

20

Wed.

21

Thur.

22

Frid.

23

Sat.

24

Sun. 25

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

Sat.

2 2 2**** 7 * 225

11

12

13

14

15

16

26

17

2nd after EpiphANY. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1863.

44

Attack on Lieut. Kerr and the boat of the "Cockchafer" at Swatow, 1869. Collision near Woosung between P. & O. str. 'Nepaul" and Chinese transport "Wan-nien- ching;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887.

The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.

P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1809.

Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida"

lost through collision with P. & O. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. SEPTUAGEBIMA,

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrifo

fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

27

18

28

19

29

20

30

21

Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the Christian

faith in China, 1733.

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.

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