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THE CALENDAR FOR 1902

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

......6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

1900 1901

15th............6h. 44m.

5h. 35m.

Maximum

Minimum

.71.1 75.8

...37.5 56.7

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

...55.6 64.9

xi

d. h.

m.

Last Quarter

1

11

45

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1901.

New Moon

9 4

51

P.M.

Mean.....

...30.12

First Quarter

17

2

15

A.M.

Full Moon

23

7

43

P.M.

Last Quarter

31

8

45

A.M.

1900 0.770 inches

RAINFALL

1901 0.685 inches

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DAYS OF Days of

11 & 12

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Wed.

1

22

Thur.

2

23

Frid.

3

24

Sat.

Sun.

5

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

678

в

Thur.

9

2* * * * 788 8

CHRONOLOGY of REMARKABLE EVENTO

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1869. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884.

First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884.

25

26

Commissioner 1840.

27

Frid. 10

1

Sat.

11

2

Sun.

12

3

Mon. 13

Tues, 14

Wed.

15

6

Thur. İ

16

Frid. 17

8

Sat.

18

9

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

Sun.

19

10

Mon. 20

11

Tues. 21

12

44

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

2**

22

13

23

14

24

15

Sat.

25

Sun. 26

Mon. 27

Tues.

Wed.

Thur. 30 Frid.

** NX2 87

16

17

18

28

19

29

20

28

29

30

2ND AFTER Christmas.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, Yeh captured, 1858.

EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878,

Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi, nea

Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of

Japan, 1889.

Daring murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901,

Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,

1891.

1st after EpipHANY, Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in the nineteenth year of his

age, 1975.

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation Intimating the intention of

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

Secretary of American Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.

Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker Alum, 1857.

Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893, Li Hung-chang, new Viceroy, reaches Canton, 1900, The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

2ND AFTER Épiphany. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home

nt Hongkong formally opened, 1863.

Attempt to set fire to the C N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin " at Shanghai. 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & 0). steamer Nepaul" and Chinese transport * Wan-nien-ching; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

**

Death of Queen Victoria, 1971. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & 0. steamer “Nivhon " Jost off Amoy, 1868. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida'

lost through collision with P. & O. steamer

"Bombay. near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900,

"

SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific fire at Tokyo ; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881. 3RD AFTER EmpuanY,

Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the

Christian faith in China, 1733.

21

31

22

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. Outer forts of Wei-hai-wei captured by Japanese, 1895.

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