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THE CALENDAR FOR 1921

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APRIL-30 DAYS

SUNRISE

SUNSET

HONGKONG TEMPERATURE

1st

...6h. 16m.

6h. 38m.

1919

1920

15th

...6h. 03m.

6h. 44m.

Maximum

...77.1

...

73.3

Minimum

...69.2

66.5

MOON'S PHASES

Mean

...72.5

...

69.3

d. h. in.

New Moon

8

5

5

P.M.

BAROMETER, 1920

Mean...

First Quarter

15.

6

12

...

...

...29.97

P.M.

Full Moon

22

49

P.M.

1919

RAINFALL

Last Quarter

30

0

9

P.M.

4.430 inches

1920 8.265 inches

DAYS OF

DAYS OF

2&3

CHRONOLOOY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS

WEEK

MONTH

MOONS

Fri.

1

23

Satur.

2

24

Sun.

w

25

Mon.

26

Tues.

LC

27

Wed.

6

28

Thurs.

29

Fri.

Satur.

Sun.

10

Mon.

11

Tues.

12

5

Wed.

13

Thurs.

14

Fri.

15

Satur.

16

Sun.

17

10

Mon.

18

11

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.

French flag hoisted at Kwang-chan-wan, 1898. Belilics Reformatory opened at Hong-

kong, 1900.

1ST AFTER EASTER. Tui On pirated between Hongkong and Korgmoon, 1913.

1891.

Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace Letween France and China signed at Paris, load. The Tsarevitch and Prince George of Greece arrived in Hongkong,

Bogue Forts destroyed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. Wheell arrow Riot at Shanghai, 1897.

Attempt to destroy with dyuanote the Prince Regent's Face 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, ldet, Chinese Parliament inaugurated 1913.

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

General at Lauton assassinated, 1911.

2ND AFTER Easter, 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 Adinirak Makaroff, 1904. Soldiers' Club opened at Ilongkong, 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. Rits at Changsha, 1910.

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

3RD AFTER EASTER. 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 between 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, 10,

The

**Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1830. The Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.

Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897.

Tues.

Wed.

Thurs.

F.i.

2 22 2

19

12

20

13

21

14

22

15

Satur.

23

16

Sun.

21

17

4TH AFTER Easter.

Mon.

25

18

Tues.

26

19

Wed.

27

Thurs.

28

27

20

21

Fri.

Sat.

222283

29

20

22

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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. P. M. steamer Asia wrecked near Foochow, 1911.

S. GEOROE'S DAY.

Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic mis- sionaries, 1908. Capture 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 £25,0 10,000 signed at Peking, 19.3.

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

after the War, 1917.

Appointed by Chinese Government a Day of Prayer for Christian Churches, 1913. Ratifications of Corean Treaty with England exchanged, 1884. 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 8.8. "Tai On" off Kai Au, 1914. Battle of the Yalu, Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great slaughter, 1901.

Arrival o General Grant

Hongkong, 1879