THE CALENDAR FOR 1910
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st 15th.....
.6h. 29m.
5h. 45m.
Maximum
..6h. 37m. 5h. 39m.
Minimum
Mean
MOON'S PHASES
d. h.
m.
New Moon
2 9 56
A.M.
First Quarter
10
1
29
P.M.
Full Moon
17
8
25
A.M.
Last Quarter
24
2
13
A.M.
1908
1909
...75.8 75.5
...65.6 65.4
.70.2 70.4
BAROMETER, 1909
Mean....
.30.07
1908
RAINFALL
0.145 inches
1909 0.065 inches
21
DAYS OF DAYS OF | 9 and 10
Thur.
MONTH MOONS
61 60 10
9=
WEEK
Tues.
Ι
30
Wed.
2
1
3
2
Frid.
4
3
Sat.
5
4
Sun.
6
5
Mon.
7
6
Tues.
8
7
Wed.
9
8
Thur.
10
9
Fri.
11
10
Sat.
12
11
Sun. 13
12
Mon. 14
13
Tues. 15
14
Wed. 16
15
Thur. 17
16
Frid. 18
17
Sat. 19
18
Sun. 20
19
Mon. 21
20
Tues. 22
21
Wed. 23
22
Thur.
24
23
Frid.
25
24
Sat.
26
Sun. 27
* * * * * *
25
26
Mon.
28
27
Tues.
29
28
30
Wed.
29
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander I
Czar of Russia, 1894. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 190s. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser
C4
Charleston off North Luzon.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee
1839.
Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. 20TH AFTER TRINITY. English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,”
1860.
Death of Li Hung-chaug, 1901.
Sandpiper" and "Canton Oity "sunk.
Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887, Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong,
1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. CE Funeral of Empress-Dowager of China, 1909. Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the H.M.S. "Racehorse” wrecked off Chefoo in 1864.
of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within
the Palace, Peking, 1894.
25T11 AFTER TRINITY. Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation
Conference at Hongkong interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germaus took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chiuese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908. H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Destruction of the str. "Wah Yeung by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost, 1887. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 1:03. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908, Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section >hanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened. Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and
several hundred lives löst, 1887.
26th AFTER TRINITY. Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died,
1863.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 20th Regt., murdered in Japan, 1864. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from Hongkong, 1903; acting appointment of Hon. F. H. May,
Terrible boiler explosion on board the steamer "Yesso" in Hongkong harbour,
86 lives lost, 1877.
Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante" at
Woosung, 1881.
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890. T
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
187 IN ADVENT. M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for
the murder of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Blake Pior
Hongkong, opened 190o,
»
Murder of captain and four men of the British barque "Crofton, near Ku-lan, 1869. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person 1890. S. Andrew's Day.
S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Raavenna" in the Inlaud Sea, 61 lives lust, 1892
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