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THE CALENDAR FOR 1914

FEBRUARY-28 DAYS

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

SUNRISE

SUNSET

1st

.7h. 04m.

6h. 10m.

15th

..6h. 56m.

6h. 19m.

Maximum

Minimum

Mean

MOON'S PHASES

d. h. m.

First Quarter

3

6

33

P.M.

Full Moon

11

1

35

A.M.

Last Quarter 17

23

P.M.

New Moon

25

02

A.M.

1912

1913

...64.4

64.6

..56.4

5.37

.59.9

6.05

BAROMETER, 1913

Mean......

.30.14

1912

RAINFALL

1913

2.435 inches

2.390 inches

DAYS OF

WEEK

DAYS OF MONTH

1 & 2 MOONS

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thur.

Frid.

6

LO CO

9

10

11

12

Sat.

Sun.

1x

13

14

15

Mon.

CO

Tues. Wed.

10

16

Thur.

Frid.

123

17

18

19

20

21

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4TH NESHA E'TPHANY,

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

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Inhabitants of Hongkong declared British subjects, 1841.

Mrs. Carew sentence Additional Article to Chetoo Convention came into force, 1887. to death a' Yokohama for the murder of her husband; sentence commuted to pena serviturks, 1897. First meeting of International Commission on Opium at Shanghai, 1909. Weihaiwei citadel captured by Japanese, The German Club at Hongkong opened, 1872.

1895.

Great robbery in the Central Bank, Hongkong, discovered, 1865. Agreement opening

West River sigued, 87.

Anti-foreign rio“ at Chunkiang, foreign houses burned and looted, 1559.

The Spanish Lavey. Halcon anived at Mação to demand satisfaction from the Chinese for the burning of the Spanish brig • Bilbaino,” 1849, Japan brøke off diplomatic relations with Russia, 1904. ) spadice str. “Talsu Maru“ seized by Chinese gunboats near Maçao for alleged struggling arms, 1908,

Suez Canal adopted as the regular route for the Eastern Maiis, 1888. SEPTUAGESIMA. The Spanish fleet leaves the port of Cavite, by order of the Governor of Hostilities between Russia and Japan Manila, for the purpose of taking Formosa, 1626, begun by Russian gunboat off Cheruulpo, 1994. Japanese made a successful torpedo attack at midnight on Russia's Port Arthur squadron, 1904.

The

·Henrietta Maria” was found drifting abou in the Palawan Passage, captain, crew and 250 coolies missing, 1857. Murder of Messrs. Kiddle and Sutherland at Mengka on Yunnan border, 1960, Šaval fight at l'ort Arthur between Japanese and Russian fleets with disastrous consequences to the latter, 190.

The Japanese constitution granting representative government proclaimed by the

Emperor in person at Tokyo, 1889,

Sir John Carrington, ex-Chief Justice of Accession of the Emperor of Japan, 1897.

Hongkong, died, 1913.

Outbreak of convjets in Singapore Gaol, 1975, Surrender of Liukungiao Island forts and remainder of the Chinese fleet to the Japanese, 1895. Manchu Rulers of China announce their abdication, 1912.

S. VALENTINE'S DAY. Tung Wa Hospital, Hongkong, opened by Sir R. G. MacDonnell,

1872.

The Chines› frigate Yu-yuen " and corvette “Chun-cheng “sunk by the French in Sheipoo harbour, 1955. Insurgents evacuated Shanghai, 1856. Stewart scholarship at Central School, Hongkong,

founded, 1884. Alice Memorial Hospital, Hongkong, opened, 1887.

SENAGESIMA. Ports of Hongkong and Tinghai declared free, Isil.

4

Lord Amherse's Embassy, returning from China, shipwrecked in the Java Sea, 1817.

Mr. A. R. Margary, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, was murdered at Manwyne, Yunnan, Consort of the by Chinese, 1875. Statue of Li Hung Chang unveiled at Shanghai, 1906, Emperor Kwangsu died, 1913.

Sat.

14

Sun.

15

Mon.

16

22

Tues.

17

23

Wed.

Thur

Frid. 20

Sat.

Sun.

Mon. 23

29

Tues. 24

30

Wed, 25

Thur. 26

1

2

Frid. 27

3

Sat.

28

2222 2**

18

24

The U. S. paddle man-of-war

Swatow, 1883.

+4

Ashuelot" wrecked on the Fast Lammock Rock, near

19

25

26

21

27

22

28

QUINQUAGESIMA. The Emperor Tao-kwang died, 1850 (reigned 30 years). Massacre of

missionaries at Nanchang, 19906.

Yotsai"

Hostilities between England and China recommenced, 1841. Steamer "Queen" captured

and burnt by pirates, 1857. First stone of the Hongkong City Hall laid, 1967. Chusan evacuated by the British troops, 1841. Explosion of boiler of the str.

between Hongkong and Macao; six Europeans and thirteen Chinese killed and vessel destroyed, 1884.

ASH WEDNESDAY. Captain Da Costa and Lieut. Dwyer murdered at Wong-ina-kok, in Hongkong, 1849. Chinese Imperial Edict issued dismissing the Dalai Llama of Tibet, 1910. Bogue Forts, Canton, destroyed by Sir Gordon Bremer, 1841. Hongkong police chop

burnt, 1884. Marriage of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1889.

Treaty of peace between Japan and Corea signed at Kokwa, 1876. Evacuation of

Port Hamilton by the British forces, 1887.

Capture of the Sulu capital by the Spaniards, 1976.