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THE CALENDAR FOR 1921
JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
1st ..
7h. 04m.
SUNSET 5h. 50m.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1919
1920
15th...
7h. 06m.
6h. 00m.
...
Maximuni Minimum
...
...65.4
64.9
...
...
...
...58.6
54.3
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...61.5
59.1
...
...
d.
h.
m.
New Moon
9
1
27
P.M.
BAROMETER, 1920
First Quarter
Mean
...30.19
17
2
31
...
***
P.M.
Full Moon
24
8
A.M.
Last Quarter
31
2
A.M.
1919 0.625 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 11 & 12
WEEK MONTH
MOONS
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
1920 0.065 inches
RAINFALL
Satur.
23
Sun.
24
Mon.
3
Tues.
225
25
26
Wed.
5
27
Thurs.
28
Fri.
28
29
Satur.
00
30
Sun.
9
1
Mon.
Tues.
2=
10
11
CO LO
Wed.
12
Thurs.
13
Fri.
14
6
Satur.
15
Sun.
16
Mon.
17
Tues.
18
Wed.
19
Thurs.
9 29 23
10
11
20
12
Fri.
. 21
Satur.
22
13
22
14
Sun.
Mon.
25
23
15
24
16
195
Tues.
25
Wed.
26
Thurs.
Fri.
Sat.
29
21
Sun.
30
22
Mon.
31
23
** N* 2 85
17
18
27
19
23
22 22 2 2*
20
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 te submit the Macao boundary question to arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hongkong places of worship and mass
meeting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
EPIPHANY. Fearful hire 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, Kalgan, Dolon-Nor, Chinfeng, Taonanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919. 1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. 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.
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 inurdered 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.
2nd after EpiPHANY. 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.
opened, 1863.
Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
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.
Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. 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, 1865. Pitched battle between Police and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H. May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
SEPTUAGESIMA.
Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601.
..
U. S. corvette "Oneida "
lost through collision with P. & O. steainer 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 forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of h
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.
SEXAGESIMA,
Outer forts of Weihaiwei captured by Japanese, 1894; volcano eruption at Taal, P.I.
1911. Japan makes certain demands on China, 1915.
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