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THE CALENDAR FOR 1903

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

JANUARY--31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

1st

.6h. 42m.

5h. 26m.

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

3h. 35m.

Maximum

Minimum

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

xxxvii

1901

1902

.75.8

78.0

.56.7

48.5

.64.9 63.1

dl.

h.

m.

First Quarter

7 6

02

A.M.

BAROMETER, 1902.

Full Moon

13

Mean.

.30.14

10

23

P.M.

Last Quarter

20

7

55

P.M.

1901

RAINFALL

1902

New Moon

29

0 45

A.M.

0.685 inches

0.285 inches

Day 69 DAYS OF

MONTH

12 & 1 MOONS

Thur.

1

3

Frid.

Sat.

3

Sun

Mon.

J

7

Tues.

Wel Thur.

1

3-10

6

9

8

10

Frid.

Sat.

10

12

San.

11

13

Mon. 12

14

Tues. 13

15

Wel 14

16

Thur. 15

17

Frid. 16

18

Sat.

17

19

Sam.

18

Mon.

TUFS. Wed.

20

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20

19

21

21

ཝཱསྶ

23

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સમ

ឌ ឌ ៦ ឍ ឌ ឍន អ៊ ៩៩

Thur.

Frid. 23

Sat.

SKA.

Mon.

Tues

24

25

26

27

Wed. 28

Thur.

29 N.Y.

Frid.

Sat.

30

2

31

코인

CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EventØ

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1808. 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.

2ND AFTER ('Uristmas.

Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840.

Yeh captured, 1858.

Epiphany. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

"Tec one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. · Namchow" sank off Cup Chi, near

Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892

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

Japan, 1869.

Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901,

1st after EpiphAXY, Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church,

Hongkong, opened, 1891.

Tung-chi, Emperor of China died, in the nineteenth year of his age, 1875.

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

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846,

Secretary of United States 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,

Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.

The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

28d after Erivnaxy, Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1807.

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at 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. steamier “Nepaul” and Chinese transport. Wan-nien-ching Jatter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of

Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.

Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. P. & O. steamer "Niphon” lost off Amoy, 1868.

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Matheus Kievi, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1801. 1.8. corvette "Oneida '

lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, 1870, Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900, 3RD AFTER Epipitaxy.

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841.

S. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1855. Terrific fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

Commissioner

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

Christian faith in China, 1733.

Lord Sulton left China with 23,000,000 ransom money, 1846,

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Outer forts of Weihaiwei enpturest by Japanese, laß5. 3

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