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The 100 Years Anglo-Chinese Calendar, 1St Jan. 1776 to 25Th Jan : THE 100 YEARS ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR, 1st JAN., 1776 to 25th JAN., 187G, CORRESPONDING WITH THE 11th DAY of the 11th MOON of the 40th YEAR of the EEIGN KIEN-LUNG, To the END of the 14th YEAR of the REIGN TUNG-CHI; TOGETIIER WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SEVERAL INTERESTING TABLES AND EXTRACTS. BY IP. LOUE;EIE,0. SHANGHAI rRINTED AT THE " NORTH-CHINA HERALD " OFFICE, 1872. -A c^ V lo ; ; PREFACE. In presenting the 100 Years Anglo-Chinese Calendar to the public, the compiler claims no originality for his work, inasmuch as, since the year 1832,* Calendars in somewhat similar form have been yearly issued from the press in China ; but, as it is doubtful if a complete series of these exists, and as, in the transaction of business, whether official, legal or commercial, between Foreigners and Chinese, and in the study of Chinese History which is now so intimately connected with foreign nations, a knowledge of the corresponding dates is quite necessary, it is hoped that this compilation will be found useful, and especially so in referring to the date of past events, and in deciding the precise day, according to the Chinese and Chris- tian Calendars, on which they occurred. Commencing with the last quarter of the past century (1st January, 1776), the Calendar embraces the peiiod when the first British Embassy (Lord Macartney's in 1793) arrived in China. For convenience sake the Calendar has been divided into 10 parts, each embracing a period of ten years of the Christian era and ends with the close of the 14th year of the present reign Tung-chi, —the 25th January, 1876. The Tables, extending to some 260 pages, enable both foreigners and natives to arrive more readily and with more correctness, at the dates of their respective Calendars, than they can by the use of the Table of the Sexagenary Cycle. We give in an Appendix the Table of the Cyclic Characters : j we have not used this Table, however, in our compilation, but have checked our dates by the Table of the 28 '§' hung (houses or constel- ations). As we completed the printing, we were kindly furnished by Baron Johannes Von Gumpach, with his calculations of Chinese New Years' Days ; and were glad to find that our dates entirely agree with those ascertained by him astronomically, and by his permission we give in the Appendix a Table showing the Chinese New Years' Days for 1876 to 2000 A.D. P. L. Shanghai, September, 1872. * The late Mr. John Robert Morrison was the first compiler of the Anglo-Chinese Calendar and it does not appear that previous to 1832 the comparative statement of the correspondence of Chinese and Christian dates, in this form, had ever been attempted. "74 . .. ) CONTENTS. C-^IL.IEIISrilD.^IR,- 1 Part I.—January 1st, 1776 to 31st December, 1785, corresponding with the ) 11th day of the 11th moon of the 40th year, to the 1st day of the 12th L Page 1 @ 26 moon of the 50th year of the reign Kien-Lcng, . J Part II.—January 1st, 1786 to 31st December, 1795, corresponding with thej 2nd day of the 12th moon of the 50th year, to the 21st day of the - 27 „ 52 11th moon of the 60th year of the reign Kiex-Luxg, . j 1 Part III.—January 1st, 1796 to 31st December, 1805, corresponding with the 22nd day of the 11th moon of the 60th year of the reign Kiex- 53 „ 78 Lung, to the 11th day of the 11th moon of the 10th year of the reign KlA-KlXG, Part IV.—January 1st, 1806 to 31st December, 1815, corresponding with the 12th day of the 11th moon of the 10th year, to the 2nd day of 79 „ 104 the 12th moon of the 20th year of the reign Kia-Kixg, Part V.—January 1st, 1816 to 31st December, 1825, corresponding wiih the 3rd day of the 12th moon of the 20th year of the reign Kia-Kixg, to 105 „ 130 the 22nd day of the 11th moon of the 5th year of the reign Tau- Kwaxg, Part VI.—January 1st, 1826 to 31st December, 1835, corresponding with the 23rd day of the 11th moon of the 5th year, to the 12th day of the 131 „ 156 11th moon of the 15th year of the reign Tau-Kwaxg, Part VII.—January 1st, 1836 to 31st December, 1845, corresponding with the 13th day of the 11th moon of the loth year, to the 3rd day of the 157 „ 182 12th moon of the 25th year of the reign of Tau-Kwaxg, Part VIII.—January 1st, 1846 to 31st December, 1855, corresponding with] the 4th day of the 12th moon of the 25th year of the reign Tau- I 183 „ 208 Kwaxg, to the 23rd day of the 11th moon of the 5th year of the reign f Hiex-Fuxg, . j Part IX.—January 1st, 1856 to 31st December, 1865, corresponding with* the 24th day of the 11th moon of the 5th year of the reign Hiex- [ 203 „ 234 Fuxg, to the 14th day of the 11th moon of the 4th year of the reign [ Tuxg-Chi, • j Part X.— January 1st, 1866 to 25th January, 1876, corresponding with the] 15th day of the 11th moon of the 4th year, to the end of the 14th I 235 „ 261 year of the reign Tuxg-Chi, .. .. .. .. .. .. j APPENDIX. Table of the Sexagenary Cycle for the years of the present Dynasty, and ex- Page tending to the year 1900, A.D., .. .. .. .. .. j" Chinese Division of Time, (extract), . Table of the 76 Cycles, B.C. 2637 to A.D. 1864, Table of the 28 Constellation Characters, Time Table, (extract), ,. Table of the Twenty-four Solar Terms, (extract), Chronological Table of the Reigns of the Emperors of China of the present Dynasty, and of the Contemporary Rulers of Great Britain and Pre- sidents of the United States, Table of the First day of the New Years of the Reign Shun-Chi, 9 Table of the First day of the New Years of the Reign Kang-Hi, 10 11 Table of the First day of the New Years of the Reign Yung-Ching 12 Table of the First day of the New Years of the 1st to the 40th year of the reign ) 13 U Kien-Lung, . j Table of the First day of the Chinese New Years for 1S76 to 2000 A.D., astro-) 15 nomically ascertained by Baron Johannes Von Gumpach, . j" Perpetual Calendar for 2000 years after Christ, Old and New Style, 16 17 ^ OF TM£ ^p UNIVERSITY PART I. MONDAY, 1st JANUARY, 1776 TO SATURDAY, 31st DECEMBER, 1785. 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