THE CALENDAR FOR 1893
WEEK
Sun.
1
14
Mon.
2
15
Tues.
3
16
Wed. 4
17
Thur. 5
18
Frid.
19
20
21
Mon.
9
22
Tues. 10
23
Wed. 11
Thur. 12 Frid. 13
24
25
26
Sat.
14
27
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
....6h. 42m.
5h. 26m.
1891
1892
.......................6h. 44m.
5h. 35m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum
.....76
76
.50
46
d. h. m. sec.
Full Moon
2 9
17
40 P.M.
6
4
43 A.M.
BAROMETER, 1892.
18
9
41
A.M.
Max.......30.48
Min......29.96
1891 0.04 inches
RAINFALL
1892 0.52 inches
Last Quarter 10 New Moon
First Quarter 25
APOGEE, 12 days, PERIGEE, 28 days,
DAYS OF Days of 1 11 & 12
MONTII MOONS
Sat.
Sun.
678
282 28
47 P.M.
3 hours, P.M. 10 hours, A.M.
CHRONOLOGY or RemarkaBLE EVENTS
1st after CHRISTMAS. Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia
opened, 1872.
Establishment of bonded warehouses in Shanghai, 1883. Death of Prince Chun, father of the Emperor Kwang-Su, 1891.
The Emperor Kang-hi sends as his Envoy to the Pope the Jesuit Father Bouvet, 1706. Imperial Decree disgracing Ch'ung How issued, 1830. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of å member of the Legislative Council, 1884.
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.
1st AFTER EPIPHANY. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 152. British str. "Namchow"
Bank off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892,
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, 1809. Marriage of the Mikado of Japan, 1369.,
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,
1891.
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.
Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Sun. 15
28
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Bread poisoning in Hongkong, by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.
Mon. 16
29
Tues. 17 Wed, 18 Thur.
30
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
19
- 2
2
Frid. 20
Sat.
21
Sun. 22
Mon.
2 2 2X
3
4
23
Tues.
Wed. 25 Thur.
26
8
00 00
Frid. 27
10
Sat. 28
11
Sun.
29
12
Mon.
39
13
Tues.
31 14
24
567
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1811. Sailors' Home at Hongkong fonually
opened, 1863.
Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “ Pekin,' at Shanghai, 1891.
44
Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport Wan-nien-ching;" latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
3rd after EpipHANY. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1865.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida "
lost through collision with P. & Ü. steamer "Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870.
+
Hongkong_taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. 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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