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THE CALENDAR FOR 1901

NOVEMBER-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

Gh. Gm.

5h. 22m.

1899 1900

15th............Ch. 14m.

5h. 16m.

Maximum

.80.5 81.9

Minimum

.50.7 51.6

Mean

.67.8 68.8

MOON'S PHASES

1. 11.

m.

BAROMETER, 1899

Last Quarter 3

3

1

P.M.

Mean......

..30.05

New Moon

11

3

11

P.M.

First Quarter 19

4

0

P.M.

1899

RAINFALL

1900

Full Moon

26

8

54

A.M.

1.640 inches

5.785 inches

xxi

WEEK

DAYS OF DAYS OF | 9 and 10 |

MONTH MOONS

Frid.

1

21

Sat.

2

22

Sun.

3

23

Mon.

24

Tues.

5

25

Wed.

26

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1970. Death of Alexander III,

Czar of Russia, 1894.

Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston off North Luzon.

22ND AFTER TRINITY. 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, 1531. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1800,

English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1800.

Thur.

7

27

Frid.

8

28

Sat.

9

20

Sun. 10

30

23RD AFTER TRINITY. Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens,

Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon in Hongkong, 1900,

"

Prince of Wales boru, 1341. The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of the

Queen's Jubilce in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900; II.M.8. “Sandpiper | and ** Canton City" sunk.

Mon.

1

Tues. 12

2

Wed. 13

3

Thur. 1.1

4

Frid. 15

t

5

Sat.

16

6

Sun. 17

7

Mon. 18

8

Great Fire in Hongkong, 1867.

Tues. 19

9

II.M.S. **Raceliorse" "Wrecked off Cheroo in 1861. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident

General of Annam and Tonkin, 1880.

Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1961. The Foreign Ministers had audience within

the Palace, Peking, 1894.

Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847.

Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee,

1893. Geruans took possession of Kiaochu Bay, 1897.

H.M. gunboat "Gnat” lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. "Wah Yeung

by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 4080) lives lost, 1887.

24TH AFTER TRINITY. Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1943. Celebration of

Shanghai Jubilee, 1893.

Terrine gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and

several hundred lives lost, 1897.

*

Wed. 20

10

Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1915. Lord Elgin died, 1863.

Thur. 21

11

Major Baldwin and Lieut. Birt, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1861.

Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894.

Port

Fri.

22

12

Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour, 86 lives

lost, 1977.

Sat,

A

13

Sun. 21

14

Mon. 25

Tues. 26

15

16

Wed. 27

17

Thur. 28

18

Frid.

20

19

Sat.

30

20

Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the “Bacchante" at Woosung

1881.

25ru AFTER TRINITY.

Capture of Auping, Formosa, 1863. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1587,

and 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, 1853. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Blake Pier,

Hongkong, opened 1900,

29

Murder of captain and four men of the British birque “Crofton, near Ku-Jan, 1869.

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

craiser · Chishima Kan" sink in collision wizh Le P. & 0, steamer the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892,

"Ravenna" in