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THE CALENDAR FOR 1920
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
15th...
7h. 06m.
5h. 59m.
Maximum Minimum
...
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
d.
h.
m.
Full Moon
6
5
5
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1919
Last Quarter
13
8 9
Mean
1918
1919
...59.2
65.4
...
...49.8
58.6
...54.0 61.5
...30.15
A.M.
New Moon
21
1 27
P.M.
1918
RAINFALL
First Quarter
28
11 38
P.M.
0.010 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thurs.
1
11
Fri.
12
Satur.
13
Sun.
14
Mon.
сл
5
15
Tues.
6
16
Wed.
7
17
Thurs.
18
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
19
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10
20
11
21
25
22
23
24
15
25
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
12
13
14
2 4 4 2 700 2
Wed.
Thurs.
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CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
1919 0.625 inches
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 gune 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 Einperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese Government definitely refused te submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hougkong places of worship and mass-
mecting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
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" spnk 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, Kalgau, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
1st after EPIPHANY. 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.
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
tidal 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.
16
26
17
27
The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
18
28
19
29
20
30
21
1
22
22
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க
+ C
Fri, Satur.
23
24
Sun.
25
Mon.
26
Tues.
27
Wed.
28
Thurs.
29
Fri.
30
10
Sat.
31
11
78
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
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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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Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
Sir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.
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P. & O. steamer "Niphon lost off Amoy, 1868. Pitched battle between Police and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H. May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
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Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit 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. 3RD AFTER EPIPHANY, 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 hs
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 inCanton: 100 lives lost,1909.
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1994; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.
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