THE CALENDAR FOR 1918
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
.7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
1916
1917
15th..
..7h. 06m.
5h. 59m.
Maximum
...65.5
60.7
Minimum
...56.3
51.7
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...60.7 55.8
d.
h. m.
Last Quarter
5 7
50
BAROMETER, 1917
P.M.
New Moon
Mean
.30.24
13
6
36
A.M.
First Quarter
19
10
38
P.M.
1916
RAINFALL
Full Moon
27
11 14
A.M.
4.075 inches
1917 0.345 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK MONTH
MOONS
Tues.
1
19
Wed,
20
20
Thurs,
Fri.
21
22
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
1995-
Tues.
23
6
24
25
00
8
26
3238
Wed.
9
27
Thurs. Fri.
2=
10
28
11
29
Satur.
Sun.
Mon,
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri. Satur.
15
16
18
19
2 2 4 2 0 100
14
12
30
13
1
3
17
Sun.
20
1967
00
Mon.
21
రా
Tues.
22
10
Wed.
23
11
Thurs.
24
12
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mou.
Tues.
** NX A
25
13
26
14
27
15
28
16
29
17
Wed.
30
18
Thurs.
31
19
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
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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 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 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 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 Macac boundary question 10 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, 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.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1875. China's Parliament
dissolved, 1914.
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. 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. 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.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Attempt to set fire tothe 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 cerled to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilee, 1891.
Death of Queen Victoria, 1991. 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 Amoy, 1868.
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Matheus Ricei, the Jesnit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U. S. corvette "Oneida " 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 forhidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the
Christian faith in China, 1733.
Lord Sultonn 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 eaptured hy Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915
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