THE CALENDAR FOR 1925
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JANUARY-31 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st
7h. 03m.
5h. 50m.
15th...
7h. 06m.
6h. 00m.
Maximum
Minimum
MOON'S PHASES
Mean
...
...
d.
h.
m.
First Quarter
BAROMETER, 1924
2
7
26
A, M.
Mean
1923
1924
...65.4
65.9
...56.1
59.8
...60.0 62,4
...30.17
...
...
Full Moon
10
10
47
A.M.
Last Quarter
18
7
33
A.M.
New Moon
24
10
45
P.M.
DAYS OF DAYS OF 1 &1
1923
0.130 inches
CHRONOLOGY OF REMArkable EVENTS
1924 1.080 inches
RAINFALL
WEEK
MONTH
MOONS
Thurs.
1
7
Fri.
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
2
ос
01
Fri.
9
Satur
10
16
Sun.
11
17
Mon.
12
18
Tues.
13
19
Wed.
14
Thurs.
Fri. Satur.
Sun.
8.
9
10
11
=23
12
13
14
21
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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 steainers and 35 small vessels, 1905. Inauguration of Chinese Republie 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 eompleted, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted Appeal Court, Ilongkong, 1913.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decrce of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese Government definitely refused to submit the Macao boundary question 10 arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the llongkong places of worship and mass
meeting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
EPIPHANY. Fearful fire 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” sunk off Cup Chi, near Swatow; about 350 lives lost, 1892. The French evaeuated Chantaboon, 1905. Pre- sident 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. Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
1ST AFTER EPIPHANY. Seainen's Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church, 1longkong, 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. Strike of Seamen at Hongkong, which continued until March 5th and developed into a general sympathetic strike, 1922. Secretary of United States Legation murdered at Tokyo, 1871. Voleanie eruptions and
tidal 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.
Severe frost in Hongkong, 1893. Chinese Imperial Court returned to Peking, 1902. The Tai-wo gate at the Palace, Peking, destroyed, 1889.
2ND AFTER EPIPHANY. Great gunpowder explosion in Hongkong harbour, 1867. Elliot and Kishen treaty, ceding Hongkong, 1841. Sailors' Home at Hongkong formally
opened, 1863.
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 80 lives lost, 1887. Hongkong eeded to Great Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong's Jubilec, 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, 1868. Pitched battle between Poliee and robbers in Gresson St., Hongkong, 1918. Sir H. May's resignation of the Governorship of Hongkong, 1919.
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Matheus Rieei, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking, 1601. U.S. corvette "Oneida '
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer Bombay," near Yokohama, 1870. Decree announcing resignation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900. 3RD AFTER EPIPHANY.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul's Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrifie
fire at Tokyo; 10,000 houses destroyed and many lives lost, 1881.
Decree from Yung-ching forbidding, under pain of death, the propagation of the Christian
faith in China, 1733.
Lord Saltoun left China with $3,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol withdrawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives lost, 1909.
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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21
16
17
18
24
19
25
26
Mon.
Tues.
20
'Wed.
Thurs.
22
21
27
22
28
Fri.
23
29
Sat.
24
N.Y.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri. Satur.
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25
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