1925

THE CALENDAR FOR 1925
JANUARY-31 DAYS
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Hongkong Temperature
1923 1924
Maximum 65.4 65.9
Minimum 56.1 59.8
Mean 60.0 62.4
Barometer, 1924
Mean 30.17
1923 Rainfall 1924
0.130 inches 1.080 inches
k Remarkable Events
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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, 646 guns
stores oi ammunition, also 4 battleships, 2 cruisers, 34 gunboats and de-
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New Year, 1913.
First election by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884. Evacuation of Shanghai completed, 1903. First sitting of Reconstituted
Appeal Court, Hongkong, 1913.
First election by the Hongkong Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative
Council, 1884.
Decree of Emperor Tao-kwang prohibiting trade with England, 1840. Commissioner
Yeh captured, 1858. Chinese G .vernment definitely refused to submit the Macao
boundary question lo arbitration, 1910.
Thanksgiving services for the Armistice at the Hongkong places of worship and mass
meeting of thanksgiving at Theatre Royal, 1919.
Epiphany. Fearful tire 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 evacuated 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, Taouanfu, Liengkow, Hulutao, 1919.
Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak, Hongkong, 1869.
Ist* after Epiphany. Seamen’s Church, West Point, opened, 1872. New Union Church,
Hongkong, opened 1891. H.E. The.Governor of Hongkong issued an appeal for an
endowment fund of 81,250,000 for proposed Hongkong University, 1909.
Tung-chi, Emperor of China, died, in his nineteenth year, 1876. China’s Parliament
dissolved, 1914.
Ki-ying, Viceroy of Tvvo 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. Volcanic eruptions and
tidal wave in Kagoshima (Japan); famine in Northern Japan, 1914.
Bread poisoning in Hongkong by Chinese baker, 1857. Indo-China str. “YikSing” 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 theC. 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 ceded to Great
Britain 1841. Celebration of Hongkong’s Jubilee, 1891.
Death of Queen Victoria, 1901. The first Chinese Ambassadors arrived in London, 1877.
ftir Henry May left Hongkong to become Governor of Fiji, 1911.
P. & O. steamer “Niphon” lost off Amoy, 1868. Pitched battle between Police and
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Matheus Ricci, the Jesuit Missionary, enters Peking:, 1601. U.S. corvette “Oneida”
lost through collision with P. & O. steamer “Bombay’,” near Yokohama, 1870.
Decree announcing designation of Emperor Kwang Hsu, 1900.
3rd after Epiphany.
Hongkong taken possession of, 1841. St. Paul’s Church at Macao burnt 1835. Terrific
fire at Tokyo ; 10,000 houses destroyed and many li— - -
2S 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 83,000,000 ransom money, 1846. British gunboat patrol
withdrawn from West River, 1908. Big fire among flower-boats in Canton: 100 lives
lost, 1909.