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THE CALENDAR FOR 1894
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
2nd
..6h. 6m.
SUNSET 5h. 21m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1892
1893
10th
..6h. 15m. 5h. 15m.
Maximum
..83
82
-MOON'S PHASES
Minimum
.52
54
d. h. m.
sec.
First Quarter 5 10 51
Full Moon Last Quarter 20 New Moon
49 P.M.
13 3
25
9
27
4
44 P.M. 44 42 A.M. 30 43 P.M.
BAROMETER, 1893
Mean......
..30.18
APOGEE, 5 days, PERIGEE, 17 days,
6 hours, A.M.
4 hours, A.M.
1892
0.34 inch
RAINFALL
1893
0.03 inch
DAYS OF DAYS OF 10 and 11
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thur. 1
4
Frid.
2
5
Sat.
3
6
Sun.
Mon. 5
08 1
7
Tues. 6
9
Chronology of Remarkable Events
Arrival at Hongkong
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Chinese lighthouse tender "Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1884. of Mr. N. R. O'Conor, the new British Minister to China, 1892. Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Great fire at Swatow; several hundred houses destroyed, 1987. Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben arrive at Peking, having crossed Asia on bicycles, 1892.
24th after Trinity. Hongkong Jockey Club formed; 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1980.
English and French treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette," 1860.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.
7 8 9
7
10
11
12
The French repulsed in Korea, 1866.
Celebration of the Queen's Jubilee in Hong-
kong, 1887.
Sat.
10
13
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887.
Sun. 11
14
Mon. 12
15
Tues. 13
16
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Wed.
14
17
25th AFTER TRINITY. 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 Tonkin, 1886. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The C. N. Co.'s Yangtase steamer Ichang'
wrecked on Ta-yew Island, 1891.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860.
Thur. 15
18
Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893- 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.
Frid. 16
19
Sat.
17
20
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843.
Sun. 18
21
Иon. 19
Tues. 20
Wed. 21
Thur.
Frid.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
26
Tues. 27
Wed.
Thur.
28
29
Frid. 30
22
23
24
25
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23
24
25
22 * * * * * * * 28
22
26
27
28
29
1
2
3
4
26th after TRINITY. Great Fire in Hongkong, 1967.
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, 1883.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864.
Great fire at Canton, 1,400 houses destroyed, 1836. Terrible boiler explosion on board
the steamer Yesso in Hongkong harbour, 88 lives lost, 1877.
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Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the “Bacchante” at Woosung,
1881.
27TH AFTER TRINITY. Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1888. 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.
Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton," near Ku-lan, 1869
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
8t. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese
cruiser **
Chishima Kan," sunk in collision with the P. & 0. steamer "Ravenna," in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892.
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