THE CALENDAR FOR 1918
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
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SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th ......
....6h. 27m.
5h. 46m.
1916
1917
..........6h. 36m.
5h. 39m.
Maximum
.73.5
72.7
Minimum
...62.4
64.7
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
....€7.8
68.2
d.
h. ni.
New Moon
4
5
2
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1917
First Quarter
Mean
.30.12
12
0
46
A.M.
Full Moon
18
3
33
P.M.
1916
RAINFALL
1917
Last Quarter
25
6
25
P.M.
0.075 inches
0.095 inches
DAYS OF Days of 9 & 10
WEEK MONTH
MOONS
Fri.
1
28
Satur.
Sun. Mon.
3
1
28-
29
30
Tues.
Wed.
'Thurs.
Fri. Satur.
te
7
IQ
A
454
00
Sun
10
Mon.
11
Tues.
12
9
Wed.
13
Thurs.
14
3*
10
11
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
ALL SAINTS. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. All Germans in Hongkong of Military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. Fresidentia' mandate issued denouncing Sun Yat-sen, 1914. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston" of North Luzon.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the Naval action of Chuen-pee, 1830. Hongkong Jockey Club med, 1884. Pacific Mail S.S. withdrawn ow ng to the La
Folette Seanon's Act coming into force in the U.S.A., 1915.
Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kuomintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 menilers of Parliament, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1860. Indo-China
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtau 10 Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
感情
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and Canton City sunk. Independence of Kwangtung province announced, 1911. Twelve people killed by bomb in Canton, 1914. German cruiser “Emden” destroyed by H.M.A.S. “Sydney' at Cocos Island, 1914.
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 » plague epidemic, 1910. Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. 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 Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1908.
H. M. gunboat "Guat" lost on the Palawan, 1968. 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, 1867. 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 Macao, 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 men.Lers of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licences of the Peak aud 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, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871, Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1880. Terrible floods in Chibli; H、ng-
kong voted $100,000 toward- "elief of distres-.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839.
M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung Hlow, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder of
the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1770), 1871.
Fri.
Satur.
16
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
* 9 * 2 22 2
15
12
13
17
14
18
19
16
20
17
21
12
22
19
49
15
Sun.
**
23
24
2223
20
21
Mon.
25
22
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Blake Pier,
26
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
troops at Macao, 1910.
Revolt of
27
ST. ANDREW'S DAY. ST. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese
cruiser Chishima Kan sunk in collision with the P. & 0. steamer
"Ravenna
Tres.
26
Wed.
27
Thurs.
28
Fri
Sat.
29
30
** 2 2 N
23
24
25
in the Inland Sex, 61 lives lust, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu- tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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