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THE CALENDAR FOR 1920
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
1st 15th
...6h 28in. 5h. 46m.
...6h. 36m. 5h 40m.
MOON'S PHASES
1918
1919
Maximum
72.7
72.7
Minimum
...66.1
64.1
*.7
Mean
...69.2
68.1
d.
h. m.
Last Quarter
3
3 35
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1919
New Moon
Mean
30.10
11
5
...
...
A.M.
First Quarter
19
13
A.M.
1918
RAINFALL
1919
Full Moon
26
9
42
A.M.
5.075 inches
2.885 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 9 & 10
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Mon.
1
21
Tues.
Wed. Thurs.
61
2222
23
24
25
Fri.
Satur.
6
26
Sun
27
Mon.
28
* Tues.
29
Wed.
10
Thurs.
11
Fri
12
atur.
13
Sun.
14
***
3
4
5
* 9 * 2 22 2
❤
Mon.
15
Tues. Wed.
16
17
Thurs.
18
Fri.
19
1)
Satur.
20
11
Sun.
21
12
Mon.
22
13
Tues. Wed.
35
23
14
24
15
Thurs.
25
25
16
19
Fri
Sat.
*N
26
17
27
13
Sun.
28
Mon.
29
20
Tues.
30
* 2 2 2
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 Gernians in Hongkong of Military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. 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 Pacific Mail S.S. withdrawn owing to the La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, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860
President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kucmintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 members of Parliameut, 1913.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette," 1860.
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str. Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914. Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
Indo-China
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 a 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 a 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. Armistice celebrations in Hongkong, 1918.
H. M. gunboat "Guat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Opening of Canton-Fatsham Rail-
way, 103. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908.
Shanghai opened to for eign 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 froin 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 members of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licer.ces 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., inember of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, 1915.
Capture of Auping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871, Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890. Terrible floods in Chihli; Hong.
kong voted $100,000 towards relief of distress, 1916.
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.
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856.
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
Great fire in Hongkong, 1867.
Blake Pier,
Revolt of
21
Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person, 1890.
troops at Macao, 1910.
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"
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in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolu. tionists and Imperialists, 1911.
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