THE CALENDAR FOR 1900
SEPTEMBER–30 DAYS
xix
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
.....5h. 44m.
6h. 16m.
1898 1899
.5h. 48m. 6h. 02m.
Maximum
.....90.0
89.8
Minimum
.74.0 71.6
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...80.9 80.3
ત. h. m. sec.
First Quarter 2
3
31
48
P.M.
Full Moon
9
0.
42
42
P.M.
ВАКОМЕТЕР, 1899
Last Quarter 16 4 New Moon
33
42
A.M.
24
3 33 41
A.M.
Mean.........
...29.89
1898 5.295 inches
RAINFALL
1899 6.305 inches
Sat.
1
8
Sun.
9
Mon.
3
10
Tues.
11
Wed.
5
12
PERIGEE, 10 days, 1.41 hours, A.M. APOGEE, 24 days, 11.38 hours, A.M.
Dath of |Days or ¦ 8 and 8 WEK MONTH MOONS
15
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKable Events
Ma, Viceroy of Nanking, died of the wounds inflicted by an assassin, 1870. Foundation
stone of Gap Rock lighthouse, near Hongkong, laid, 1890.
19th after TRINITY, Arrival of the "Vega" at Yokohama, after having discovered the
North-East Passage, 1879. Kiaochau declared a free port, 1898.
Hongkong Plague proclamation revoked, 1894.
Attack on the forts at Shimonoseki, Japan, by the allied fleets under Admiral Kuper, 1864-
Death of Two Tsung-tang at Foochow, 1885.
Thur.
Frid.
7
14
Sat.
15
Sun.
9
16
Mon. 10
38523
13
H.R.H. Prince Alfred received by the Mikado of Japan, 1889.
Attack on Dr. Greig, near Kirin, by soldiers, 1891.
17
Tues.
11
18
Wed.
12
19
Thur.
13
20
Great typhoon in Hongkong, 1867.
13TH AFTER TRINITY. Sir Hercules Robinson assumed the government of Hongkong, 1850. Riot by Chinese mob at Canton; great destruction of houses and property on Shameen,
1883. British gunboat Wasp
left Singapore for Hongkong and seen no more,
1887.
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Public meeting of foreign residents at Yokohama to protest against proposed new
Treaty with Japan, 1890.
Convention signed at Chefoo by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hung-chang, 1878.
Frid. 14
21
Sat.
15
22
Public Meeting in Hongkong, with reference to the blockade of the port by the Chinese
Customs cruisers, 1874. Severe typhoon in Southern Japan, 1891. Chinese transport "Waylee" driven ashore on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives lost, 1887,
Pingyang captured by the Japanese, 1894.
Sun. 16
23
Mon. 17
24
Tues.
18
25
14TH AFTER TRINITY. New Convention between Germany and China ratified at Peking, 1881. The battle of the Yalu, in which the Chinese were defeated by the Japanese, losing five
vessels, 1894,
Loss in Kii Channel, near Destruction by fire of the Temple of Heaven, Peking, 1889.
Kobe, of the Turkish frigate “Ertogrul,” with 567 lives, 1890.
Wed.
19
26
Thur. 20
27
Frid. 21
28
Sat.
29
Typhoon at Swatow, 1891,
Sun. 23
30
Mon. 24
1
Tues.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid.i 28 Sat.
*****
25
2
26
3
27
4
5
29
6
Sun.
30
15TH AFTER TRINITY. Am. brig "Lubra" taken by pirates, 1866. Terrific typhoon la
Hongkong and Macao, many thousands of lives lost, 1874.
H.M.S. "Rattler" lost off Japan, 1803. Piratical attack on the German barque "Apenrade," near Macao, 1869. The Satsuma rebels in Japan routed with great slaughter, their leader, Saigo, killed, and the insurrection suppressed, 1877.
Daring attack upon a Chinese shop in Wing Lok street, Hongkong, by armed robbers.
1878. Arrival of Sir Henry A. Blake, o.c.M,G., Governor of Hongkong, 1888. Lord Napier arrived at Macao dangerously ill, 1834,
Commissioner Lin degraded, 1840.
Yellow River burst its banks in Honan; calamitous inundation, 1887. Death of Hon.
Stewart, Colonial Secretary, at Hongkong, 1889.
Michaelmas Day. Hurricane at Manila, causing immense damage to shipping, 1866
16TH AFTER TRINITY. All the Bogue forta destroyed by the British fleet, 1841.
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