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THE CALENDAR FOR 1920

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APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

...6h. 17m.

6h. 38m.

15th

...6h. 04m.

6h. 43m.

...

Maximum Minimum

...

1918 ...75.0

1919

77.1

...

...67.0 69.2

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

...70.4

72.5

l.

h. m.

...

...

Full Moon

3

6 55

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1919

Last Quarter 11

9

24

Mean...

...29.94

P.M.

...

...

New Moon

19

5

41

A.M.

RAINFALL

First Quarter

25

9 27

P.M.

DAYS OF DAYS OF

2&3

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Thurs.

1

13

Fri.

2

14

Satur.

15

Sun.

16

Mon.

17

Tues.

18

Wed.

19

Thurs.

20

Fri.

21

Satur.

10

Sun.

11

23

Mon.

12

2 * 22 *

24

Tues.

13

25

Wed.

14

26

Thurs.

15

27

Fri.

16

28

Satur.

17

Sun.

18

30

Mon.

19

Tues.

20

Wed.

21

27

Thurs.

22

23

29

o m

CO

1918 4.440 inches

CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

1919

· 4.430 inches

The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wenchow, Wuhu and Ichang opened, 1877. B. N. Borneo adopted the Straits Settlements currency, 1905. Dowager Empress of Japan died, 1914.

GOOD FRIDAY, French flag hoisted at Kwang-chau-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory

opened at Hong kong, 1900.

Tai On pirated between Hongkong and Kongmoon, 1913.

EASTER DAY. Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France and China signed at Paris, 1885. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891.

EASTER MONDAY. Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai, 1897. Attempt to destroy with dynamite the Prince Regent's Palace at Peking, 1910.

Convention between Sir John Francis Davis and the Viceroy Ki-ying for the admission

of Europeans into the city of Canton within two months, 1842. Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow

Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1903.

Arrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886. Chinese Parliament inaugurated 1913.

Terrific tornado in Canton; 2,000 houses destroyed and 10,000 lives lost, 1878. Tartar

General at Canton assassinated, 1911. 37,000 Christians butchered in Japan, 1738. Death at Peking of Marquis Tseng, 1890

Presentation of colours to Hongkong Regiment, 1895. Russian flagship Petropavlovsk sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, nearly every man drowned, including Admiral Makaroff, 1904. Soldiers' Club opened at Hongkong, 1900. Imperial Palace, Seoul, destroyed by

fire, 1904. Aliens given the right to own land in Japan, 1910.

S. Francis Xavier left Goa for China, 1552. Riots at Changsha, 1910.

British Flag hoisted at Taipohu, Kowloon New Territory, 1899. Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived in Hongkong, 1872. Junk Bay Flour Mills, Hongkong, suspended operations, 1908.

Telegraph to Shanghai opened, 1871. Execution at Kowloon city of nineteen pirates, including "Namoa" pirates, 1891. Treaty of Peace between China and Japan signed at Shimonoseki, 1895.

Convention hetween China and Japan settling Corean differences signed at Tientsin, 1885. The O. & O. steamer "San Pablo" wrecked near Turnabout, 1888. One-fourth of the opium divans at Shanghai closed, 1908. Town of Wagima, Japan, destroyed by fire, 1910, The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830.

Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.

Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897.

The

East India Company ceased trade with China, 1834. Arrival of Governor J. Pope Hennessy in Hongkong, 1877. Opening of new commercial port of Heungchow near Macao, 1909. Bank of China authorised to issue $3,000,000 in subsidiary notes, 1915. S. GEORGE'S DAY. P. M. steamer Asia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.

Cap-

Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 1908.

ture of the citadel at Hanoi, Tonkin, by the French forces, 1882. First sod of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway cut at Shanghai, 1905.

Foundation stone of Queen's College, Hongkong, laid, 1884. Contract for Quintuple

Loan of £25,000,000 signed at Peking, 1913.

A crowded public meeting in Hongkong den. a ds exclusion of Germans from the Colony

after the War, 1917.

Fri.

23

5

Satur.

24

Sun.

25

Mon.

26

8

Tues.

27

9

Wed.

28

10

Thurs.

29

Fri.

283

11

20

12

Privy Council for Japan constituted by Imperial decree, 1888. Sir F. D. Lugard laid foundation stone of Hongkong Seamen's Institute, 1909. Daring piracy on the s,s. "Tai On" off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu; Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1904.

Arrival o General Grant 'n Hengkeng, 1879

Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884.