THE CALENDAR FOR 1917
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
Ixix.
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
....6h. 27m.
5h. 46m.
1915
1916
15th
.6h. 35m. 5h. 40m.
Maximum
75.5
73.5
Minimum
..66.8
62.4
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...70.9 67.8
d.
h. 111.
Last Quarter
7 1
3
Barometer, 1916
A.M.
Mean
.....30.10
New Moon
15
28
A.M.
First Quarter
22
29
A.M.
1915
RAINFALL
1916
Full Moon
29
2
41
A.M.
1.890 inches
0.075 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 & 10
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thurs.
1
17
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Fri.
Satur.
ស
18
19
Sun
92
2J
Mon.
5
21
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs. Fri.
22
22
23
24
25
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Satur.
10
20
Sun.
11
27
Mon.
12
28
Tues.
13
29
Wed.
14
30
Thurs.
15
Fri,
16
Satur.
17
97
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
21
Thurs.
* 2 22 N
18
20
22
♡
10
5
67
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ALL SAINTS. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Biotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 190s. All Germans in Hongkong of Military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1014. Presidential mandate issued denouncing Sun Yat-sen, 1914. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston" off North Luzon.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Club formed, 1884. Pacific Mail 8.S. withdrawn owing to the La
Folette Seaman's Act coming into force in the U.S.A., 1915.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1884. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1866. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kuomintang a seditions organisation and unseated 438 members of Parliament, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette," 1860.
str.
Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtau to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
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Indo-China
sunk.
The French repulsed in Cores, 1868. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong,
1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and "Canton City Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. Twelve people killed by a bomb in Canton, 1914. German cruiser "Emden "destroyed by H.M.A.S. "Sydney at Cocos Island, 1914.
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Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Assas- sination of Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915. Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. Death of M. Paul Bert, Resident General of Annam and Tonkin, 1886. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1884. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kirochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908.
H. M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Rail-
way, 1903. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908.
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1887. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several
hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macno, 1910.
Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from
Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911.
Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. “Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Resignation en bloc of unofficial members of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licences of the Peak and Grand Hotels, 1915.
Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hongkong which lasted seven weeks, 1912..
Death of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, 1915,
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1968. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871,
Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder of
the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
Fri.
9
Satur.
24
10
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs
Fri
གླུ མ སོ་ལ ཆེ 。
25
11
26
12
27
18
23
14
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Blake Pier,
29
15
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
troops at Macao, 1910.
Revolt of
3)
16
ST. ANDREw's Day. ST. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer Ravenna in the Inlaud 8ea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arrange.l between Chinese Revolu- tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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