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THE CALENDAR FOR 1917

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JANUARY-31 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

7h. 03m.

5h. 50m.

1915

1916

15th.

..7h. 05m.

6h. 00m.

Maximum

..64.0

65.5

Minimum

...56.3 56.3

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

....60.1 60.7

d. h. m.

Full Moon

8

3

42

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1916

Last Quarter

Mean

...30.16

16

7

42

P.M.

New Moon

23

40

P.M.

First Quarter

30

1

A.M.

1915 0.345 inches

RAINFALL

1916 4.075 inches

DAYS OF DAYS OF | 12 & 1

WEEK MONTH Moons

Mon.

1

Tues.

Wed,

Thurs.

Fri. Satur.

Sun.

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Mon.

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00

Chronology OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

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12

13

14

11

19

20

21

22

23

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Kobe and Osaka opened, 1868. Overland Telegraph through Russia opened, 1872. Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese, with 878 officers, 23,491 mien, 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 Sen as Provisional President, 1912. First Chinese Celebration of Western New Year, 1913.

First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative

Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shaughai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstitutech 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.

Fearful fire at Tientsin, 1,400 famine refugees burnt to death, 1878.

18T AFTER EPIPHANY. 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, uear 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, Dolou-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. 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.

China's Parliament

Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875.

dissolved, 1914.

Ki-ying, Viceroy of Two Kwang, issues a proclamation intimating the intention to

open up Canton according to the Treaties, 1846.

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2nd after EpipHANY. Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Vol- canic eruptions and tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan, 1914. Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. Yik Sing lust

at The Brothers, 1908. Hongkong Courts of Justice opened, 1912. 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.

opened, 1863.

Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally

Attempt to set fire to the C. N. Co.'s steamer "Pekin" at Shanghai, 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.

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3RD AFTER EPIPHANY. Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877. Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911. P. & O. steamer “Niphon” lost off Ainoy, 1865.

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9

10

Wed.

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17

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11

18

13

14

15

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17

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20

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Tues.

Wed.

Thurs.

Fri.

Satur.

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26

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

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24

21

28

22

29

23

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61

Wed.

Thurs.

Fri.

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25

26

Satur. Sun.

27

28

Mon.

29

Tues.

20

Wed.

31

34

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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, 1870. 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.