THE CALENDAR FOR 1916
OCTOBER-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
lxxiii
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st 15th
..6h. 15m.
6h. 11m.
....6h. 20m.
5h. 59m.
Maximum
1914 ..81.2.
1915
82.7
Minimum
.74.3 75.4
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
d.
h.
....77.5
78.9
m.
First Quarter
4
7
0
BAROMETER, 1915
P.M.
Full Moon
Mean
11
1
P.M.
Last Quarter
19
9
9
A.M.
1914
RAINFALL
1915
New Moon
27
4 37
A.M.
6.450 inches
11.710 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
9 & 10
WEEK
ΜΟΝΤΗ
MOONS
Sun.
5
Mon.
2
Tues.
3
67
6
Wed. 4
8
Thur.
5
9
Frid.
6
10
Sat. Sun.
06-1
7
11
12
Mon.
9
13
Tues. 10
14
Wed. 11
15
Thur. 12
Frid. 13
16 17
Sat.
14
18
Sun. 15
19
Mon. 16
20
Tues. 17
Wed. 18
Thur. 19
21
22
23
Frid. 20
24
Sat.
21
Sun. 22
25
25
26
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thur. 26
Frid.
*** 25
23
27
24
28
25
29
30
27
1
CHRONOLOGy of RemarKABLE EVENTS
The "Hongkong Daily Press" started, 1857. Inauguration of Hongkong College of
Medicine, 1887. Hyogo declared an open port, 1892.” Gold Standard adopted in Japan, 1897. British Section, Canton-Kowloon Railway opened, 1910. Tamsui bombarded by French, 1884.
Serious riot at Hongkong, 1884.
Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok, 1893. Withdrawal of British steamers from West River, 1900. Chinese National Assembly Inaugurated, 1910.
Attack on foreigners at Wenchow, 1884. Terrible fire at Amoy, 1902. Typhoon at
Hongkong, 1894. Canton-Kowloon Railway opened for through traffic; 1911: French expedition left Chefoo for Corea, 1866. Arrival in Hongkong of Governor Sir
William Des Voux, 1887.
Hongkong Government agreed to lend the Viceroy of Wuchang £1,100,000 to repurchase from an American syndicate the Canton-Hankow railway concession, 1905. ↑ H. R.H. Prince Alfred visited Peking, but not received by the Emperor, 1869. Great public meeting at Hongkong to consider increase of crime in Colony, 1878. Chinese Court left Kaifengfu on its way to Peking, 1901. Hongkong Legislative Council · passed a Bill to prevent trading with the enemy, 1914.
Supplementary Treaty signed at The Hague, 1848. French landing party at Tamsui repulsed, 1884. Battle of Shaho, Russo-Japanese War, commenced. Ended 25th in disastrous defeats of Russians; casualties 45,800 Russian; 16,879 Japanese, 1904, Shanghai captured, 1841. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Rail-
way, 1888. Shanghai-Woosung Railway placed under Chinese control, 1904. Lord Napier died at Macao, 1834. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P. & O. str. “Bokhara,” with loss of 125 lives, 1892. Yuan Shih Kai inaugurated President of the Chinese Republic, 1913, The first Chinese merchant str. ("Meifoo") left Hongkong for London with passengers to establish a Chinese firm there, 1881. Outbreak of revolution in China at Wuchang, 1911. Revolt in the Philippines, 1872. Eight Chinese banks in Peking suspended payment, 1910. Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. First railway in Japan officially opened by the
Mikado, 1872. Allies capture Paotingfu, 1900.
Explosion on the Chinese trooper "Kungpai," loss of 500 lives, 1895. Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866.
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy on board the British str.
'Greyhound," 1885. At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, a scheine
of reconstruction was approved, 1892.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1859. Great typhoon at Formosa, 1861. Japanese Government
welcomed American Battleship Fleet, 1908.
Terrific typhoon at Manila; enormous damage to property, 1882. The Shanghai and
Woosung railway closed by the Chinese Government, 1877.
H.R.H. Prince Alfred arrived at Shanghai, 1869. Cosmopolitan Dock opened, 1875. 58 piratical vessels destroyed by Captains Hay and Wilcox, H.M. ships "Columbine” and "Fury," 1849. Hongkong Legislative Council voted $100,000 to the Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund, 1914. Arms and ammunition consigned to India by Germans discovered at Shanghai, 1915.
King Chulalongkorn of Siam died, 1910.
Japanese cross the Yalu, 1894.
Treaty of Whampoa between France and China signed, 1844. Kaliding recaptured by
the Allies, 1862.
Chin-lien-cheng taken by the Japanese, 1894.
Serious earthquake in Central Japan, 7,500 persons killed, 1891. Attempted insurrection at Canton, 1895. Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited Hongkong, 1904, Massacre of four American Missionaries and a child at Lienchow, 1905. Prince Ito assassinated at Har- bin, 1909. Hon. Mr. W. D. Barnes, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, died suddenly whilst playing polo, 1911. Bomb, thrown in Canton, killed 37 people, 1914. Note presented from the Powers to China advising the suspension of the monarchical-
movement, 1915.
Portuguese frigate "D. Maria II." blown up at Macao, 1850.
Sat.
28
2
Sun. 29 Mon. 30
Tues.
3
4
Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese, 1894. Chinese Govera-
ment welcomed American Battleship Fleet at Amoy, 1908.
31
5
ALL HALLOWS' EVE, HI. R. H. Prince Alfred arrived at Hongkong, 1869.
occupied by the Japanese, 1894.
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