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THE CALENDAR FOR 1897
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st
...6h.
15th...
SUNSET 6m. 5h. 22m. ...6h. 14m. 5h. 16m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1895
1896
Maximum
....80
80
MOON'S PHASES
Minimum
..54
62
d. h. m.
sec.
First Quarter 1 10
13
40 P.M.
Full Moon
9 5
26
41
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1896
Last Quarter 17 9 New Moon
38
41
P.M.
Mean....
...30.06
24
4
55 48 P.M.
APOGEE, 11 days, PERIGEE, 24 days,
6 hours, P.M. 11 hours, P.M.
1895
0.32 inch
RAINFALL
1896
2.97 inch
DAYS OF DAYS OF 10 and 11]
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Mon.
1
7
Tues.
2
8
Wed. 3
9
Thur. 4
10
Frid.
5
11
Sat.
6
12
Sun.
343
789
co
13
CHIRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander III.
Czar of Russia, 1894.
Arrival at Hongkong
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.
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.
21ST AFTER TRINITY.
Mon.
Tues.
14
15
Prince of Wales born, 1841. The French repulsed in Korea, 1860.
Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887.
Celebration of the
Thur.
Wed. 10 11
16
17
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, 1884. Death
of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886.
Frid. 12
18
Sat. 13
19
Sun. 14
20
Mon. 15
21
Tues.
16
22
Wed. 17
23
Thur. 18
24
Frid.
19
25
Sat.
20
Sun.
21
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Fri.
Sat. 27
Sun.
Mon. 29
Tues.
222* ***** 22
26
27
28
23
29
24
1
25
2
26
3
Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The C. N. Co.'s Yangtsze steamer "Ichang
wrecked on Ta-yew Island, 1891. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
22ND AFTER TRINITY. Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of
Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.
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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. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.
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.
23rd after TRINITY. Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in
Japan, 1864. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894.
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.
4
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
28
5
6
30
7
18T IN ADVENT. Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
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Murder of captain and four men of the British barque "Crofton, near Ku-lan, 1809.
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
St. Andrew's day. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan," sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna," in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892.
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