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THE CALENDAR FOR 1906

JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

1st ............7h. 05m.

3h. 49m.

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1904

1904

15th ............7h. 07m.

5h. 58m.

Maximum

...61.9

69.0

Minimum

.55.4

60.7

Mean

..59.5

64.3

MOON'S PHASES

xi

d.

h.

111.

First Quarter

2 10

52

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1905.

Mean......... .........30.05

Full Moon

11

0

37

A.M.

Last Quarter

18

49

A.M.

New Moon

25

1

09

A.M.

1904 0.120 inches

RAINFALL

1905

1.800 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF

12 & 1

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Mon.

1

7

Tues. 2

Wed.

3

Thur. 4

10

Frid.

5

11

Sat.

Sun.

Mon. !

678

12

13

14

Tues. 9

15

Wed. 10 Thur. 11

16

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

17

Frid.

12

Sat.

13

Sun. Mon. 15

14

Tues. 16

Wed. 17 Thur. 18 Frid. 19

Sat.

20

Sun. 21

2 87829 25

*1*

18

20

21

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

Kobe and Osaka opened, 1908. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians Surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 men, 546 guns and vast stores of ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 14 gunboats and destroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1935.

First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai 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, 1858.

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

1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841.

Ice one-fourth inch thick at Canton, 1852. British str. "Namchow" sank off Cup Chi, near Swatow ; about 350 lives lost, 1802. The French evacuated Chantabooń, 1985,

Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1809. Marriage of the Mikado of

Japan, 1889.

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

1891. Two Americans and one Finu hanged in Hongkong gaol, 1905.

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

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

opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Secretary of United States Legation murtlered at Tokyo, 1871. Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857.

22

23

Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893, Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.

24

Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.

25

26

27

Mon. 22

28

Tues.

23

Wed. 24

22

22

29

30

Thur. 25 N.Y.

A S

Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

opened, 1883.

Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer “Pekin " at Shanghai, 1801,

3RD AFTER Epiphany, Collision near Woosung between P. & O. steamer Nepaul

and Chinese transport "Wan-nien-ching "; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1801.

Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors

arrived in London, 1877.

"

P. & 0). steamer “Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1865. 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, 1970. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 190)

Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. 8. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific

fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.

Frid.

26

2

Sat.

27

3

Sun. 28

4

4th after Epiphaxy,

Mon. 29

5

Tues. Wed.

30

31

67

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

Christian faith in China, 1733.

Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846.

Outer forts captured of Weihaiwei by Japanese, 1805.