THE CALENDAR FOR 1925
NOVEMBER-30 DAYS
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1st 15th
SUNRISE
SUNSET
...6h 27m.
5h. 47m.
...
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1923
1924
...6h. 36m. 5h 40m. MOON'S PHASES
d. h. m,
Maximum
.. 75.6
73.4
Minimum
...68.3
63.8
Mean
...
...71.6 68.2
Full Moon
1
1
17
A.M.
Last Quarter
BAROMETER, 1924
8
11
13
P.M.
Mean
30.13
New Moon
16
2
58
P.M.
First Quarter
23
10
5
A.M.
1923
RAINFALL
Full Moon
30
4 11
P.M.
0.405 inches
1924 0.000 inches
DAYS OF DAYS OF
9 & 10
CHRONOLOGY or RemarkaBLE EVENTS
WEEK
MONTH
MOOKS
Sun.
1
15
Mon.
Tues.
Al
16
17
Wed. Thurs.
18
5
19
Fri,
Satur.
Sun.
Mon.
789
20
21
223
22
23
Tues.
10
24
Wed.
11
25
Thurs.
12
26
*Fri.
13
27
Satur.
14
23
Sun.
15
29
Mon.
16
*Tues.
17
OF
12
Wed,
18
Thurs.
19
̈Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
22 2 **
20
21
22
7
8
24
9
Wed.
25
25
ΙΟ
Thurs.
26
11
Fri.
27
12
Satur.
28
13
.Sun.
29
14
Mon.
30
315
ALL SAINTS DAY. The port of Quinhon, Annam, opened to foreign trade, 1876. Riotous dis- turbances at Hongkong connected with the boycott of Japanese goods, 1908. All Germans in Hongkong of military age interned; others required to leave the Colony, 1914. Presidential inandate issued denouncing Sun Yat-sen, 1914. Wreck of the U.S. cruiser "Charleston" off North Luzon. Wireless telegraph ervice
opened between Macao and Hongkong, 1920.
Great Britain commenced the first war with China by the naval action of Chuen-pee, 1839. Hongkong Jockey Club fornied, 1884. l'resident Tsao Kun forced to resign, 1924. Great fire at Macao, 500 houses burnt, 1834. Peking evacuated by the Allies, 1860. President Yuan Shih Kai proclaimed Kuomintang a seditious organisation and unseated 438 menibers of Parliament, 1913. Manchu Emperor evicted from Imperial Palace and Abdication Agreement revised, 1924.
English and French Treaties promulgated in the "Peking Gazette,” 1860.
str. "Tingsang" wrecked in Haitan Straits.
Fall of Tsingtao to Anglo-Japanese force, 1914.
Death of Li Hung-chang, 1901.
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Indo-China
The French repulsed in Corea, 1866. Celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in Hongkong, 1887. Typhoon at Hongkong, 1900, H.M.S. Sandpiper" and "Canton City sunk. Independence of Kwangtung province_announced, 1911. German cruiser "Emden destroyed by H.M.A.S. "Sydney" at Cocos Island, 1914.
Statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy unveiled in the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong, 1887. Assas- sination of Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng at Shanghai, 1915. Coronation of Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, 1915.
H.M.S. "Racehorse" wrecked off Chefoo in 1864. New Chinese Tariff came into force, 1901. Disturbances at Shanghai, following measures to prevent a plague epidemic, 1910. Arinistice arranged in Great War. 1918.
Hongkong first lighted by gas, 1864. The Foreign Ministers had audience within the
Palace, Peking, 1894.
Earthquake at Shanghai, 1847. Macao Boundary Delimitation Conference at Hongkong
interrupted, 1909.
Convention signed between Russia and China, 1860. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Germans took possession of Kiaochau Bay, 1897. Death of the Chinese Emperor Kwang Ilsu, 1908. Armistice celebrations in Hongkong, 1918.
H.M. gunboat "Gnat" lost on the Palawan, 1868. Opening of Canton-Fatshan Rail-
way, 1903. Death of the Chinese Empress Dowager Tze Au, 1908,
Shanghai opened to foreign commerce, 1843. Celebration of Shanghai Jubilee, 1893. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. First section Shanghai-Nanking railway to Naziang opened.
General strike of printers commenced in Hongkong, 1911.
Important Harbour Improvement works at Macao announced, involving an expenditure
of over $10,000,000, 1920.
Terrific gunpowder explosion at Amoy; upwards of 800 houses destroyed and several hundred lives lost, 1887. Jesuit fathers expelled from Macao, 1910. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s 8,8. “Sui An” pirated on her way from Macao to Hongkong by 60 pirates, who had gone aboard as passengers, 1922.
Portuguese Custom House at Macao closed, 1845. Lord Elgin died, 1863.
Port Arthur taken by the Japanese, 1894. Departure of Governor Sir Henry Blake from
Hongkong, 1903. Rebels repulsed at Hankow, 1911.
Terrible boiler explosion on board the str. "Yesso" in H.K. harbour, 86 lives lost, 1877. Resignation en bloc of unofficial members of Hongkong Licensing Board as a protest against the action of the Executive in restoring the licences of the Peak and Grand Hotels, 1915. Chinese commenced boycott of trams in Hongkong which lasted seven weeks, 1912. Death of the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett, C.M.G., member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, 1915. Marshal Tuan Chi Jui assumes office as Chief Executive of China, 1924.
Capture of Anping, Formosa, 1868. Treaty between Portugal and China signed, 1871, Imperial Diet of Japan met for the first time, 1890. Terrible floods in Chihli; Hong- kong voted $100,000 towards relief of distress, 1916.
Edict issued by the Viceroy of Canton forbidding trade with British ships, 1839. M. Thiers accepts the apology of Ch'ung How, the Chinese Ambassador, for the murder
of the French at Tientsin (June 21st, 1870), 1871.
Foreign factories burnt at Canton, 1856. Great fire in Hongkong, 1867. Blake Pier,
Hongkong, opened, 1900.
IST IN ADVENT. Opening of the Japanese Diet at Tokyo by the Emperor in person,
1890. Revolt of troops at Macao, 1910.
ST. ANDREW'S DAY. St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, consecrated, 1872. The Japanese cruiser "Chishima Kan" sunk in collision with the P. & O. steamer "Ravenna" in the Inland Sea, 61 lives lost, 1892. Armistice arranged between Chinese Revolutionists and Imperialists, 1911. Manchu Emperor seeks sanctuary in Japanese Legation, 1924.
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