THE CALENDAR FOR 1905
JANUARY-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
1st ................. .7h. 05m. 15th............7h. 07m.
MOON'S PHASES
SUNSET
5h. 49m.
5h. 58m.
Maximum
Minimum
Mean
1903 1904
..63.0
61.9
..54.2 55.4
d.
h.
m.
.5.83 59.5
Barometer, 1904.
New Moon
6 2
17
A.M.
Mean......
.....30.20
First Quarter
14
4
11
A.M.
Full Moon
21
3
14
P.M.
Last Quarter
28
8
20
A.M.
1903 1.370 inches
RAINFALL
1904 0.120 inches
DAYS OF Days or 11 & 12
WERK
MONTH
MOOND
Sun.
1
26
1ST AFTER CHRISTMAS,
Mon.
27
Tues.
Wed.
4
Thur.
223
28
29
30
Frid.
6
Sat.
7
2
Sun.
8
Mon.
8
Tues. 10
5
Wed. 11
Thur. 12
7
Frid. 13
Sat.
14
9
Sun. 15
10
Mon. 16
11
Russia opened, 1872.
Chronology or RemarKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1808. Overland Telegraph through Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, 1908. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghal completed, 1903.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1838.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.
Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Ice one-fourth inch thick at Cauton, 1852. British str. "Namchow”*-
sank off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 850 lives lost, 1892.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869. Marriage of the Mikado of
Japan, 1889.
Murder of a Chinese Reformer in Gage Street, Hongkong, 1901.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened,
1891. Two Americans and one Finn hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905. 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.
2nd after EpipHANY. Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.
Tues. 17
12
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
Wed. 18
13
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
Thur. 19
14
Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1883.
Frid. 20
15
Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin" at Shanghai, 1891.
Sat. 21
16
Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport
Wan-nien-ching "; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
Celebration of
Sun.
22
Mon. 23
Tues.
24
Wed. 25
Thur. 26
Frid.
Sat.
28
Sun. 29
Mon. 30
Tues.
27 *** *
*** ** 72 27
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
31
26
Outer forts of Weihaiwel captured by Japanese, 1895.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors
arrived in London, 1877.
P. & O. steamer “Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1885. King Edward's Accession, 1902. 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
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. 8. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1836. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1981.
4TH AFTER EPIPHANY. Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the
propagation of the Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltoun left China with 83,000,000 ransom money, 1846.
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