THE CALENDAR FOR 1908
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JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st............7h. 05m.
SUNSET
Hongkong TEMPERATURE
5h. 49m.
1906
1907
15th........ .....7h. 07m.
5h. 58in.
Maximum
.....62.5
66.3
Minimum
...54.8 57.0
Mean
New Moon
MOON'S PHASES
...58.4 61.4
d.
h.
4
5
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BAROMETER, 1907.
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A.M.
Mean....
.30.16
First Quarter 10 Full Moon
9 53
P.M.
18
9
37
P.M.
Last Quarter
26
11 01
P.M.
1906 1.985 inches
RAINFALL
1907 3.445 inches
Dirs of DATя op
WEEK
11 & 12
MOSTH
MOOXB
Wed.
1
28
Thur.
ลง
2
29
Frid.
3
30
Sat.
Sun.
5
GN
2
Mon.
6
Tues.
7
Wel.
8
34 3
5
Thur.
9
co
6
Frid. 10
7
Sat. 11
8
Sun.
12
9
Mon.
13
10
Tues.
14
11
Will. 15
12
Thur. 16
13
Frid. 17
14
Sat.
18
15
Sun.
19
16
Mon. 20
17
Tues. 21 Wed. 22
Thur. 23 Frid. 24
Sat.
18
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CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EVENTB
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. 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, 1905.
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.
Yeh captured, 1958.
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, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evacuated Chantaboon, 1905. 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.
1st after EpipRANT. 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 to opening up Canton accor ling to the Treaties, 1840.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902.
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867. 2nd after EPIPHANY. 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
at Shanghai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & 0. steamer "Nepaul" and Chinese transport Wan-nien-ching"; latter sunk and eighty lives lost, 1887. Hongkong ceded to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
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Death of Queen Victoria, 1991 The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London,
1877.
20 P. & 0. steamer “Niphon" lost off Ainoy, 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, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900
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S. Paul's Church at Macao 3RD APTER EPIPHANY. Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. 23
burnt, 1835. Terrific fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
21
25
22
Sun.
26
Mon. 27
24
Tues. 28
25
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Wed.
Thur.
Frid
29
26
30
27
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,800,000 ransom money, 1846.
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28
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894.
Commissioner
"Pekin
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