THE CALENDAR FOR 1923
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CHRONOLOGY Of Remarkable Events
EASTER Day, The port of Hoihow, Hainan, opened, 1876. The ports of Pakhoi, Wen- chow, Wuhu and ichang opened, 1877. B. N. Borneo adopted the Straits Settlements currency, 1905. Dowager Empress of Japan died, 1914, EASTER MONDAY. French flag hoisted at Kwang-chau-wan, 1898. Belilios Reformatory
opened at Hong kong, 1900.
APRIL-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
...6h. 17m.
6h. 38m.
15th
...6h. 05m.
6h. 43m.
Maximum
...
1921 ...76.4
1922
...
75.7
...
Minimum
...68.7 67.6
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...71.9
71.0
d. h. m.
Ful' Moon
1
9 10
BAROMETER, 1922
P.M.
Last Quarter
Mean...
...29.96
8
Ι
23
P.M.
New Moon
16
2
28
P.M.
First Quarter
24
1
20
P.M.
1921 2.820 inches
RAINFALL
1922
2.020 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
243
WFEK
MONTH
MOʊns
Sun.
1
16
Mon.
2
17
Тие.
18
Wed.
4
19
Thurs.
5
20
Fri.
21
Satur.
Sun.
00
8
Mon.
9
Tues.
10
Wed.
11
Thurs.
12
2 2 2 2 25
22
23
24
26
27
Fri.
13
28
Satur.
14
29
Sun.
15
28
30
Mon.
Tues.
56
16
17
Wed.
18
Thurs.
19
Fri.
Bat ir.
23
20
21
Sun.
22
25
12
17
Q
Mon.
23
Tues.
21
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
* 2 NX
25
10
26
11
27
12
13
Sat.
Sun.
Mou
2280
29
14
20
15
Tui on pirated between Hougkeng and Kougmoon, 1913.
Protocol arranging the preliminaries of peace between France, and China signed at Paris, 185. Tie Tsarevitch and Prince Ceorge of Greece arrived in Hongkong, 1891.
Bogue Forts destroy ed by General D'Aguilar, 1847. WheelbarrowRiot 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. H.R.H. The Prince
f Wales visios Hồng, ng for tw days on his way to Japan, 1922.
Hongkong Mint opened, 1866. Indignation Meeting at Shanghai respecting Wheelbarrow
Riot, 1897. Great powder explosion at Canton, 1903.
1ST AFTER EASTER. Árrival of M. Paul Bert at Hanoi, 1886.
angmated 1913.
Chinese Parliament in-
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.
2ND AFTER EASTER, 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 19 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, 1810, The "Sir Charles Forbes," the first steamer in China waters, arrived, 1880. The
Tsarevitch arrived at Hankow, 1891.
Resignation of Shanghai Municipal Council, 1897,
3RD AFTER EASTER. 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 dria wrecked near Foochow, 1911.
Chinese Imperial Edict issued disranking Roman Catholic missionaries, 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 £25,000,000 signed at Peking, 1913.
A crowded public meeting in Hongkong dena, 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" of Kai Au, 1914. 4TH AFTER EASTER, Battle of the Yalu, Russo-Japan War: Russians defeated with great
slaughter. 1904.
Arrival of General Grant in Hongkong, 1879.
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