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THE CALENDAR FOR 1899
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st
..6h.
6m.
SUNSET 5h. 22m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
15th..
.6h. 14m.
5h. 16m.
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MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum
1897
1898
.86
83
.51
51
d. h. m. sec.
New Moon
3 5
2
47 P.M.
First Quarter 10 9
11
40
Full Moon
17
5
Last Quarter 25
2
10
P.M. 54 44 P.M. 46 P.M.
Barometer, 1898
Mean....
...30.03
PERIGEE, 12 days, APOGEE, 25 days,
Days of Days of ↑ 9 and 10 WEEK MONTH MOONS
7.40 hours, P.M. 9.37 hours, A.M.
1897
RAINFALL
1898
7.32 inches
0.79 inches
Wed.
1
28
Thur. 2
29
Frid.
3
1
Sat.
4
2
Sun.
3
Mon.
6
Tues.
Wed.
Thur. 9
Frid. Sat.
Sun.
TOO OF 2
7
8
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Chronology of Remarkable Events
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander III.
Czar of Russia, 1894.
Chinese lighthouse tender “Fei-hoo" captured by French, 1984. Arrival at Hongkong
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.
23RD AFTER TRINITY. Great fire at Macan, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated
by the Allies, 1800.
English and French treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette," 1880.
12
10
Mon. 13 Tues. 14
11
12
Wed. 15
13
6
Prince of Wales born, 1941. The French repulsed in Corea, 1966.
Queen's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1997.
10
8
11
a
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1987. H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo, out of a crew of 103 only 9 saved, 1884. Death
of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886.
24th after TrINITY. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1964. The Foreign Ministers had
audience within the Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1980. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,
1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bɩy, 1897
H.M. gunboat “Gnat” löst on the Palawan, 1988. Destruction of the str. “Wah Yeung”
by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 liv s lost, 1887.
Celebration of the
Thur. 16
14
Frid. 17
15
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.
Sat.
18
16
Great Fire in Hongkong, 1967.
Sun.
19
17
25th after TRINITY. Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses
destroyed, and several hundred lives lost, 1887.
Mon.
20
20
18
Portuguese Custom house at Macao closed, 1945. Lord Elgin died, 1883.
Tues.
21
19
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Birl, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864.
Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894.
Port
Wed.
Thur. 23
Fri.
Sat.
Sun. 26
Mon. 27 Tues. 28
Wed.
Thur. 30
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22
20
Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives
lost, 1977.
21
Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante" at Woosung
1881.
24
22
25
23
Capture of Anping. Formosa, 1969. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1887.
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1990).
24
25
26
27
28
26th AFTER TRINITY. Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with
British ships, 1939.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murde r
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
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, 1860.
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1880.
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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