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THE CALENDAR FOR 1891

FEBRUARY-28 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

4th

.................6h. 40m.

5h. 49m.

1889

1890

19th

..6h. 31m.

5h. 57m.

MOON'S PHASES

Maximum Minimum

...71

76

..43

57

d. h. m.

sec.

Last Quarter 2 New Moon

0

18

42

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1890

9

7

48

42

A.M.

First Quarter 16 Full Moon

2

5

45

P.M.

Max......30.28

Min......29.77

24

2

54 44 A.M.

PERIGEE, 9 days, APOGEE, 24 days,

9 hours, P.M.

2 hours, A.M.

1889

0.72 inch

RAINFALL

1890 1.41 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF 12 & 1

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Sun.

1

23

Mon.

2

24

Tues.

3

25

Wed.

4

26

Thur.

5

27

Frid. 6

28

Sat.

7

29

Sun.

8

30

Mon.

9

N.Y. 1

Tues. 10

2

Wed. 11

3

Chronology of Remarkable Events

SEXAGESIMA. Inhabitants of Hongkong declared British subjects, 1841. The Additional

Article to Chefoo Convention came into force, 1887.

Letters from the Imperial Commissioner Lin to H.B.M. the Queen, complaining of the persistency of her subjects in sending Opium to China, 1840. The new German Club at Hongkong opened, 1872.

Great robbery in the Central Bank, Hongkong, discovered, 1865. Anti-Foreign riot at Chinkiang, foreign houses burned and looted, 1889.

The Spanish Envoy Halcon arrived at Macao to demand satisfaction from the Chinese for

the burning of the Spanish brig “Bilbaino, " 1840.

QUINQUAGESIMA. The Spanish fleet leaves the port of Cavite, by order of the Governor of

Manila, for the purpose of taking Formosa, 1626.

The "Henrietta Maria "

was found drifting about in the Palawan Passage, captain, crew, and 250 coolies missing, 1857. SHROVE TUESDAY.

ASH WEDNESDAY. The Japanese constitution granting representative government proclaim-

ed by the Emperor in person at Tokyo, 1889.

Thur. 12

4

Frid. 13

5

Sat. 14

6

Sun. 15

7

Mon.

16

8

Tues. 17

9

Wed. 18

10

Thur. 19

11

Frid. 20

12

Sat.

21

13

Sun.

22

14

Mon. 23

15

Tues. 24

16

Outbreak of Convicts in Singapore Gaol, 1875,

St. Valentine's day. Tung Wah Hospital, Hongkong, opened by Sir R. G. MacDonnell,

1872.

1ST IN LENT, Ports of Hongkong and Tinghai declared free, 1841. The Chinese frigate

"Yu-yuen" and corvette Chin-cheng" sunk by the French in Sheipoo harbour, 1885.

Insurgents evacuated Shanghai, 1855. Stewart scholarship at Central School, Hongkong,

founded, 1884. Alice Memorial Hospital, Hongkong, opened, 1887.

The U.S. paddle man-of-war "Ashuelot" wrecked on the East Lammock Rock, near Swatow, 1883. Telegraphic communication between Haiphong and Saigon established,

1864.

Lord Amherst's Embassy, returning from China, was shipwrecked in the Java Sea, 1817·

Mr. A. R. Margary, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, was murdered at Manwyne, Yunnan,

by Chinese, 1875.

2ND IN LENT. The Emperor Tao-kwang died, 1850 (reigned 30 years).

Hostilities between England and China recommenced, 1841. Steamer "Queen" captured

and burnt by pirates, 1857. First stone of the Hongkong City Hall laid, 1867.

Chusan evacuated by the British troops, 1841. Explosion of boiler of the str. "Yotsal'

between Hongkong and Macao; six Europeans and thirteen Chinese killed and vessel destroyed, 1884.

Wed. 25

17

Thur. 26

18

Frid. 27

19

Treaty of peace between Japan and Korea signed at Kokwa, 1876. Evacuation of Port

Hamilton by the British forces, 1887.

Captain Da Costa and Lieut. Dwyer murdered at Wong-ma-kok, in Hongkong, 1849 Bogue Forts (Canton) destroyed by Sir Gordon Bremner, 1841. Hongkong police chop

burnt, 1884. Marriage of the Emperor Kwang-su, 1889.

Sat.

28

20

Capture of the Sulu capital by the Spaniards, 1876.