THE CALENDAR FOR 1891
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
2nd
....6h. 06m.
5h. 21m.
1888
1889
10th ............6h. 15m.
5h. 15m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum
.78
81
..59
56
d. h. m.
sec.
New Moon
First Quarter Full Moon
Last Quarter 23
PERIGEE, 14 days, APOGEE, 26 days,
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 and 10
WEEK
16
2 2 8 9 4 7
46 A.M.
BAROMETER, 1890
22 44 52 42
P.M.
A.M.
Max......30.28
Min.......29.76
1 48 P.M.
10 hours, a.m, 5 hours, A.M.
1889 1.54 inches
RAINFALL
1890 0.01 inch
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MONTH
MOONS
Sun.
1
30
Mon.
Tues.
3
W 3
2
1
2
Wed.
Thur.
5
4
Frid.
6
5
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
23RD AFTER TRINITY. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876.
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 in the “Peking Gazette,
1860.
Sat.
7
6
Sun.
7
24TH AFTER TRINITY.
Mon.
9
8
The French repulsed in Korea, 1866.
Celebration, with great pomp, of the Queen's
Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887.
Tues. 10
9
Wed. 11
10
Thur. 12
11
Frid. 13
12
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Sat.
14
13
Sun.
15
14
Mon. 16
15
Tues. 17
16
Wed. 18
17
Thur. 19
18
Frid. 20
19
Sat. 21
20
Sun. 22
21
Mon. 23
Tues.
24
Wed. 25
22
2 2 2 2 2
23
24
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. H.M.S."Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 108 only 9 saved, 1864. Death
of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886.
Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860.
25TH AFTER TRINITY. 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.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843.
Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.
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.
26TH AFTER TRINITY. Great fire at Canton, 1,400 houses destroyed, 1835. Terrible boiler
explosion on board the steamer “Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante" at Woosung,
1881.
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1887.
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
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, 1867.
Thur. 26
25
Frid. 27
26
Sat. 28
27
Sun.
29
28
187 IN ADVENT.
Mon.
30
29
Murder of captain and four men of the British_barque ** Crofton, Ku-lan, 1869. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872.
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