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THE CALENDAR FOR 1916
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1914
1915
1st
7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
Maximum
.67.4
64.0
15th
.7h. 06m.
5h. 59m.
Minimum
....58.8
56.3
Mean
..62.8
60.1
MOON'S PHASES
d.
h. in.
BAROMETER, 1915
New Moon
5
0 45
P.M.
Mean
.30.20
First Quarter
12
11
38
A.M.
Full Moon
20
29
P.M.
1914
RAINFALL
1915
Last Quarter
28
35
A.M.
0.000 inches
0.345 inches
DAYS OF DATS OF 11 & 12
MONTH MOONS
WEEK
Sat.
1
26
9=
Sun.
27
Mon.
3
28
Tues.
4
29
Wed. 5
1
Thur.
6
2
Frid.
7
3
Sat.
8
Sun.
9
5
Mon. 10 Tues. 11
6
7
Wed. 12
Thur. 13
Frid. 14
8
10
Sat.
15
11
Sun. 16
12
Mon. 17
13
Tues. 18 Wed. 19
14
15
Thur.
20
16
Frid.
21
17
Sat.
22
18
Sun.
23
19
Mon.
24
20
Tues.
25
21
Wed.
26
22
Thur. 27
23
Frid.
28
2+
29
25
Sun. 30
26
31
27
Sat.
Mon.
7 2** ** NR 2 AZ
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. 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 de- stroyers, 10 steamers and 35 small vessels, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republic with Dr. Sun Yat Sea as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celebration of Western New Year, 1913. 2ND AFTER CHRISTMAS. First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a
member of the Legislative Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Hongkong, 1913.
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, 1858. Chinese Government definitely refused to submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878. Forts at Chuenpi taken with great slaughter, 1841. Chinese Govt. Press Bureau
initiated, 1914.
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. President Yuan Shih-kai declares 7 cities in North China open to international trade, viz., Kweihwa Ch'eng, Kalgan, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonantu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. 16T AFTER EPIPHANY. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Seamen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, Hongkong, opened 1891. H.E. The Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an endowment fund of $1,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875. China's Parliament
dissolved, 1914.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to
open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.
Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871.
Volcanic eruptions and
tidai wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan. 1914.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. "Yik Sing" lost
at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned
to Peking, 1902.
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, 1863.
Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shangbai, 1891. Collision near Woosung between P. & O. 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.
bir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911. P. & O. steamer "Niphon" lost off Ainoy, 1865.
3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.
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Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U. S. corvette
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer" Bombay,' near Yokohama, 1970. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. 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 Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol with- drawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.,
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.
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