THE CALENDAR FOR 1909
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st ........ .7h. 05m.
5h. 49m.
1907
1908
15th....
.7h. 07m
5h. 58m.
Maximum
.66.3
66.8
Minimum
.57.0 58.1
Mean
..61.4
62.0
MOON'S PHASES
d. h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1908.
Full Moon
6
10
13
P.M.
Mean.....
.30.19
Last Quarter
15
11
A.M.
New Moon
22 8
12
A.M.
First Quarter
28
11 07
P.M.
1907
3.445 inches
RAINFALL
1908
2.640 inches
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DATE OF DAYS OF 12 & 1
67
WEEK
MONTU
Mooxs
Frid.
1
10
Sat.
11
Sun.
3
12
Mon.
4
13
Tues.
5
14
Wed.
6
15
Thur.
7
16
Frid.
17
Sat.
9
18
Sun. 10
19
Mon.
11
20
Tues. 12
21
Wed.
13
22
Thur. 14
23
Frid. 15
24
Sat.
16
25
Sun. 17
26
Mon.
18
27
Tues.
19
28
Wed.
20
29
Thur. 21
Frid.
22
N.Y.
23
SUR.
24
3
Mon. 25 Tues.
Sat.
~ ~**
Wed. Thur. Frid
26
** **38 →
* *** * *** *** 2
30
פט
6 6x-10 ok
27
28
29
Sat.
30
9
31
10
Sun
CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1889. 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.
2ND AFTER Christmas. 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, 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, 1869.
1st after EpipHANY. 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 himage, 1875.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to
opening up Canton according to the Treaties, 1816.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. Yik Sing lost
at The Brothers, 1908.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. 2xd after EpiPHANY. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889. Great Gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867.
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, 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. Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London,
1877. P. & 0). steamer "Niphon" lost off Amoy, 1865. King Edward's Accession, 1902.
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3rd after EPIPHANY. Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida " lost through collision with P. & 0. steamer "Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. S. Paul's Church at Macao burnt, 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltonn left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol
withdrawn from West River, 1903
4111 AFTER EPIPHANY. Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1804.
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