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THE CALENDAR FOR 1927
JUNE-30 DAYS
SUNRISE
SUNSET
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE
1st 15th
...
5h. 38m.
7h. 03m.
1925 1926
...
5h. 33m.
7h. 08m.
Maximum
85.6 81.3
...
Minimum
77.6 75.3
Mean
81.1
77.8
...
MOON'S PHASES
First Quarter...
d.
h.
m.
BAROMETER, 1926, AT SEA LEVEL
77
3
49 P.M.
Mean
...
29.78 inches
Full Moon
15
4
19 P.M.
Last Quarter
22
6
29 P.M.
1925
RAINFALL
***
New Moon
29
32 P.M.
23.315 inches
1926 6.635 inches
...
DAYS OF DAYS OF
WERK
MONTH
Wed.
1
5 & 6 MOONS
Thurs.
2
3
Fri.
3
4
Satur,
Sun.
5
6
Mon,
6
7
Tues.
7
8
Wed.
8
9
Thurs,
9
10
Fri.
10
11
Satur.
11
12
Sull.
12
Mon.
13
14
234
13
Tues.
14
15
Wed.
15
16
Thurs.
16
17
Fri.
17
18
Satur.
18
19
Sun.
19
20
Mon.
20
21
Tues,
21
Wed.
223
27
22
23
Thurs.
23
24
Fri.
Satur.
25
24
25
25
26
Sun.
26
27
Mon.
27
28
Tues.
28
29
Wed.
29
1
Thurs.
30
2
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, 1811, Canton-Samshui Railway completed.
Hongkong connected with London by wire, 1871. Formal 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, 1886. West River opened, 1897. WHIT SUNDAY. Departure of the first O. & O. steamer from Hongkong to San Francisco, 1875. Messrs Argent and Green murdered in an anti-foreign riot at Wusneh, 1891. Communication with Peking cut off, 1900. French 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
Attempted anti-foreign riot at Kinkiang, 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. & O. 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.
TRINITY SUNDAY, Opening of the first railway in Japan, 1872.
British steamer "Carisbrooke" fired into and captured hy 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 Telissa Russo-Japan Wȧr. Russians defeated 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. Hope Dock opened at Aberdeen, 1867. Train from Canton to Hongkong "held up," American missionary killed, 1916. Landslide at Happy Valley, five Chinese killed, 1925.
Woosung taken, 1842.
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.
18T AFTER TRINITY, 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. General Strike in Hongkong. 1925.
Massacre at Tientsin, 1870.
Canton blockaded by English forces, 1840. Queen Victoria's DiamondJubileecelebration,1897. Coronation of King George, V., 1911. Inauguration of Tsan Ching Yuan, Chinese Administration Council, 1914. Shock of earthquake in Hongkong, 1874. 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. Attack on Shameen by Chinese, 1925.
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. Treaty of Nanking exchanged, 1843. Attack on British Legation at Tokyo, 1862. Foundation-stone of new wing of Berlin Foundling House laid by Lady May, 1914.
2ND AFTER TRINITY. Treaty between England and China signed at Tientsin, 1858.
Additional Convention between France and China signed at Peking, 1887.
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 Takasima coal mines, 1891. Squadron Leader Maclaren and Flying Officer Plenderleith reach Hongkong on their attempted flight round the world, 1924,
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