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THE CALENDAR FOR 1917
OCTOBER-31 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st
.6h. 15m.
6h. 11m.
1915 1916
15th
6h. 20m.
5h. 59m.
Maximum
..82.7
80.2
MOON'S PHASES
Minimum
..75.4
72.3
d. h. m.
Mean
.78.9 75.9
Full Moon
1
4
31
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1916
Last Quarter
8
6
14
A.M.
Mean
.30.01
New Moon
16
10
41
A.M.
First Quarter
23
10
38
P.M.
Full Moon
30
2 19
P.M.
1915 11.710 inches
RAINFALL
1916
0.730 inches
WEEK
DAYS OF DAYS OF
MOSTH
8 & 9
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
MOONS
Mon,
1
13
Tues. Wed.
NM
17
11
Thurs.
4
19
F.i.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon,
23
Tues.
21
Wed.
10
25
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mo..
Tuez.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
21
22
2 23 24 * 0 2 2 N
11
12
27
13
23
14
29
15
10
1
17
2
18
3
19
20
5
6
7
2
21
23
23
2 22 22
CON
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. Tansui bombarded by French, 1884. Scrious riot at Hongkong, 1884.
Treaty between France and Siam signed at Bangkok, 1893. Withdrawal of British steamers from West River, 1990. 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 Vœux, 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 preveut trading with the enemy, 1914.
Ended 25th in
Supplementary Treaty signed at The Hague, 1848. French landing party at Tamsur
repulsed, 1884. Battle of Shaho, Russo-Japanese War, commenced. disastrous defeats of Russians; casualties 45,200 Russian; 15,879 Japanese, 1904. Shanghai captured, 1941. Chinhai taken, 1841. Official inspection of Tientsin-Kaiping Rail-
way, 1888. Shanghai-Woosung Railway placed under Chinese control, 1904. Lord Napier died at Macao, 1934. Wreck off the Pescadores of the P & O. str. "Bokhara,'
with loss of 125 lives, 1892. Yu Shih Kai inaugurated President of the Chinese
Republic, 1913.
"T
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 bants 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
4
Kungpai," loss of 500 lives, 1895.
Khanghoa, in Corea, taken by the French, 1866. Train disaster between Harbin and
Tausihar, resulting in man, deaths, 19 6.
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, dedicated, 1842. Daring piracy on board the British str.
Greyhound,” 1885.
44
At a meeting of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, a scheme
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' Na ional Relief Fund, 1914. Arms and ammunition consigned to India by Germans › discovered at Shanghai, 1915.
King Chulalongkorn of iam died, 1910.
Japanese cross the Yaln, 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 Cantou, killed 57 people, 1914. Note presented from the Powers to China advising the suspension of the monarchical.
movement, 1915.
Portuguese frigate "D. Maria 11." blown up at Macao, 1850.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1866. Fenghuang taken by the Japanese, 1894. Chinese Govern--
ment welcomed American Bittleship Fleet at Ainoy, 1908. H. R. H. Prince Altred arrived at Hongkong, 1869.
Japanese, 1894.
Talienwan occupied by the-
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satir.
*** 85
23
24
25
26
11
27
12
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
2 33
13
29
11
30
15
Wed.
31
16
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