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THE CALENDAR FOR 1915
1st 15th
d.
h.
m.
Last Quarter
7
4
12
A.M.
New Moon
14
7
36
P.M.
First Quarter 22
11
39
P.M.
Full Moon
29
10 19
P.M.
APRIL-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
.6h. 18m.
6h. 37m.
.....6h. 04m. 6h. 42m.
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum
1913 .75.8 76.3
1914
Minimum
.67.7 68.0
Mean
.71.2 71.5
BAROMETER, 1914
Mean
...29.866
1913
RAINFALL
2.175 inches
1914 4.465 inches
DATS OF DAYS OF
2 and 3
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thur.
1
17
Frid.
2
18
Sat.
3
19
Sun.
4
20
Mon.
5
21
Tues.
6
22
Wed. 7
23
Thur. Frid.
8
9
25
24
25
Sat. 10
26
Sun. 11
27
Mon. 12
28
Tues. 13
29
Wed. Thur.
14
15
- Q
1
2
Frid. 16 Sat. 17
3
4
Sun.
18 5
!
Mon. 19
6
Tues.
20
Wed. 21
Thur. 22
∞ 0 ~
7
$
9
Frid.
Sat.
3225
23
10
24
11
Sun. 25
12
Mon. 26
13
Tues. 27
14
Wed. 28
15
CHRONOLOGY of Remarkable Events
The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wenchow, Wuhu and Ichang opened, 1877. B. N. Borneo adopted the Straits Settlements currency, 1905. Dowager Empress of Japan died, 1914.
GOOD FRIDAY. French flag hoisted at Kwang-chan-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory
opened at Hongkong, 19 0.
Tui On pirated between Hougkong and Kongmoon, 1913.
EASTER DAY. Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris, 1885. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891.
Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai, 1897.
Attempt to destroy with dynamite the Prince Regent's Palace at Peking, 1910. Convention between Sir John Francis Davis and the Viceroy Ki-ying for the admission
of Europeans into the city of Canton within two months, 1842.
Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow
Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1903.
Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886. Chinese Parliament inaugurated 1913.
Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, 1878. Tartar
General at Canton assassinated, 1911.
37,000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng, 1890.
Count Okuma chosen Premier of Japan, 1914. 1ST AFTER Easter.
Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895. Russian flagship Petropavlovsk sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, including Adıniral Makaroff, 1904.
Soldiers' Club opened at Honghong, 1900. Imperial Palace, Seoul, destroyed by fire,
1904. Aliens given the right to own land in Japan, 1910.
S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.
British Flag hoisted at Taipohu, Kowloon New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong suspended operations, 1908.
Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. Execution at Kowloon city of nineteen pirates (including "Namoa" pirates), 1891. Treaty of Peace between China and Japan`signed at Shimonoseki, 1895.
2ND AFTER EASTER. Convention between China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & 0. steainer "San Pablo" wrecked near Turnabout, 1888. One-fourth of the opium divans at Shanghai closed, 1908. Town of Wagima, Japan, destroyed byfire, 181o.
The Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830. The
Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.
Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897.
East India Company ceased trade with China, 1834. Arrival of Governor J. Pope Hennessy in Hongkong, 1877. Opening of new commercial port of Heungchow near Macao, 1909.
S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer Asia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.
Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1909. Cap-
ture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.
3RD AFTER EASTER. Festival of S. Mark. Foundation stone of Queen's College, Hong- kong, laid, 1884. Contract for Quintuple Loan of £25,0 10,000 signed at Peking, 1913.
Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884.
Thur. 29
16
Frid. 30
17
Privy Council for Japan constituted by Imperial decree, 1888. Sir F. D. Lugard laid foundation stone of Hongkong Seamen's Institute, 1909. Daring Piracy on the s.8. "Tai On" off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu (Russo-Japan War); Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1901. Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.
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