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THE CALENDAR FOR 1925
JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st...
15th
5h. 38m.
7h. 03m.
1923
1924
5h. 38m.
7h. 08m.
...
MOON'S PHASES
Maximum Minimum Mean
...84.6
84.3
...
...
...77.6
77.6
...
...
...80.6
80.5
d.
h.
m.
Full Moon
7
5
48
A.M.
BAROMETER, 1924
Last Quarter
Mean
13
44
...
P.M.
...
...29.74
New Moon
2
2
17
P.M.
1923
RAINFALL
First Quarter
29
5
43
P.M.
15.720 inches
1924 23.140 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF 4 Int. & 5
12
23
WEEK
MONTH
Moons
Mon.
1
11
Tues.
Wed.
13
Thurs. Fri.
14
15
Satur.
6
16
Sun.
17
Mon. Tues.
18
9
19
Wed.
10
20
Thurs.
11
21
Fri.
12
22
Satur.
13
23
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Suu.
14
24
Mon.
15
25
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Tues.
16
26
Wed.
17
27
Thurs.
18
28
Fri.
19
29
Satur.
20
30
Sun.
Mon.
Tues,
21
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35
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12
23
3
Wed.
24
Thurs.
25
5
Fri.
26
Satur.
27
7
Sun.
28
Mon.
29
9
Tues.
30
10
22
CHRONOLOGY OF REMARKABLE EVENTS
Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel, 1878. New Opium Agreement between Hongkong and China came into force, 1887. Anti-foreign riot at Tanyang, 1891. Canton-Samshui Railway completed.
Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Forinal transfer of Formosa from
China to Japan, 1895. Revs. Norman and Robinson murdered, 1900.
KING'S BIRTHDAY. Earthquake at Manila, killing more than 2,000 persons, 1863. Death
of Sir Arthur Kennedy, 1883. Keelung taken possession of by Japanese, 1895. Treaty between France and Corea signed at Seoul, 1880. West River opened, 1897. Departure of the first O. & O. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs. Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusueh, 1891. Communica- tion with Peking cut off, 1900. Freuch str. R. Lebaudy pirated on West River, 1913. Heavy rains in Hongkong, property to the value of $500,000 destroyed, and many lives lost,
1864. Death of Yuen Shih-kai, 1916
TRINITY SUNDAY. Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kiukiang, 1891, Hongkong-Canton
steamer "Powan" wrecked, 1908. Tornado in Macao, 1913.
Destruction of Mission premises at Wusieh by anti-foreign mob, 1891.
Suspension of New Oriental Bank, 1892. The P. & Ö. steamer "Aden" wrecked off
Socotra, 78 lives lost, 1897.
Typhoon at Formosa; loss of several vessels, 1876. Admiral Seymour starts for Peking 1900. Arrival in Hongong of H.R.H. Prince Charles, heir to the Roumanian Throne, 1920 Portuguese prohibited trading at Canton, 1640.
Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872. British stemer 感情
Carisbrooke" fired into and captured by Chinese Customs cruiser, 1875. Imperial Edict condemning attacks on foreigners, 1891. Baron von Ketteler, German Minister, murdered in Peking, 1900.
Russo-Chinese Treaty, 1728. Battle of Telissu Russo-Japan Wàr. Russians defe ted with a loss of 7,000 men and 16 guns, 1904. Capt John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in an aeroplane on June 14th, 1919. Tidal Wave, Japan, 28,000 lives lost, 1896. British barque “Cæsar" and Danish schooner
“Carl" taken by pirates off Pedro Blanco, 1866. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen 1867 Russian squadron sank Japanese transport 'Hitachi," badly injured "Sado," 1904. Hongkong Legislature passed Ordinances prohibiting circulation of foreign bank notes and foreign silver coins, 1914. Train from Canton to Hongkong "held up," American mi-sionary killed, 1916.
Woosung taken, 1842.
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First foreign-owned junk leaves Chungking, 1891. Capture of Taku Forts by Allies, 1900
Death of Sir Hormusjee Mody, 1911.
Explosion of the "Union Star" at Shanghai, 17 persons killed and 10 wounded, 1862.
Disastrous inundation at Foochow, 2,000 lives lost, 1877.
Shanghai occupied by British forces, 1842. Attempted assassination at Shameen (Canton)
of M. Merlin, Governor-General of Indo-China, 1924.
Macartney's embassy arrived in China, 1793. Attack on mission premises at Hainan city, 1891. Unprecedented floods in the West River, 1908. Portuguese aviators reach- ed Hongkong from Li bon, 524.
Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.
Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, 1897. Coronation of King George, V., 1911. Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan, Chinese Administration Council, 1914. Ki-ying visits Hongkong, 1843
Shock of earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. French troops surprised by Chinese near Langson, 1884. Russian Baltic Fleet, after remaining six weeks in Tonkin waters, sailed from Kamranh Bay northward, 1905. Handsome new premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on the Bund, Shanghai, opened by H.B. M. Minister (Sir R. Macleay, K.C.M.G.), 1923.
Treaty of Nanking Foundation-stone of
Lord Robert Cecil announced in the House of Commons that the Government had decid-
ed to prohibit trading with the enemy in China, 1915 Assassination of M. Carnot, President of the French Republic, 1894. exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.
between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.
Additional Convention
Treaty between France and China signed, 1858. Confiscation of the str. “Prince Albert"
by the British Consul and Customs at Canton, 1866.
Agreement effected between Great Britain and the United States for reciprocal protection
of British and American Trade Marks in China, 1905.
The Foreign Ministers admitted to an audience of the Emperor of China at Peking, 1873.
Indian Mints closed to silver, 1893.
British expedition to China arrived, 1840. Opening of asection of the Shanghai and Woosung Railway, 1876 Flooding of the Takasuna coal mines, 1891. Squadron Leader Maclaren and Flying Officer Plenderleith reach Hongkong on their attempted flight round the world, 1924.
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