THE CALENDAR FOR 1914
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
SUNRISE
.........6h. 29m1. 5h. 45m.
Maximum
15th...........6h. 37m.
5h. 39m.
Minimum
Mean
MOON'S PHASES
1912 1913
.74.4 74.0
.64.9 66.0
.69.3 70.0
21
d. h.
BAROMETER, 1913
m.
Full Moon
3
49 A.M.
Last Quarter 11
37 A.M.
New Moon
18
0
02
A.M.
First Quarter
24
9
39
P.M.
Mean......
.30.15
1912
RAINFALL
0.285 inches
1913 0.740 inches
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CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
21ST AFTER TRINITY. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Death of Alexander 11. Czar of Russia, 1894. Riotous disturbances at Hongkong con- nected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1:08,
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Wreck of the US, cruiser “Charleston off North Luzon.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-peɛ
1-39.
Hougkong Jockey Club formed, 18×1.
Great fire at Macao, 5t houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1960. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Knemintang a seditious organisation and unseated 498 members of Parliment, 1999.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the “Peking Gazette,” 1860, Indo-China
str. Engsing wrecked in Haitan Straits.
22ND AFTER TRINITY. Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
The French repulsed in Corea, Isco, Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. "Sandpiper" and Canton City sunk. Funeral of Empress-Dowager of China, 1969. Independence of Kwangtung province announced. 1911.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887, H.M.S. “Racehorse" wrecked off Che fooin 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Ancam and Tonkin, 1**. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901, Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plaque epidemic, 1910, Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1964. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1817. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1×60, Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1883. Germans took possession of Kinochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1205,
23RD AFTER TRINITY. H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1968. Destruction
of the str. ** Wah Young by fire in the Canton river; upwards of 400 lives lost 187. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Railway, 1985. Death of the Chiuese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 143. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Sanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 500 houses destroyed and several
hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathersexpelled from Macao, 1910, Portuguese Custom House at Macaoclosed, is 15. Lord Elgin died, 1963.
Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird, of H.M.'s 2015 Rezt., murdered in Japan, 1901. Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blako from Hongkong, 1903, Rebels repulsed at Hanków, lil.
24TH AFTER TRINITY, Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K.
harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877.
Arrival of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in the "Bacchante" at
Woosung, 1881.
Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hongkong which lasted seven wecks, 1912.
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890,
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9
26
10
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839. Chinese
ferry launch sunk by collision in Hongkong harbour, 5 drowned, 1913.
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28
12
29
13
ADVENT SUNDAY,
S. ANDREW'S DAY.
14
S. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consverated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan sunk in collision with the P. & O, steamer in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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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, 1987. Blake Pier,
Hongkong, opened, 1900,
Murder of captain and four men of the British barque “Crofton," near Ku-lan, 1569. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1870. Revolt of troops at Macao, 1910,
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