Yorkshire on Monday 4 May 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 4 May 1643: The Royalists take Rotherham and begin a search for the preacher John Shawe
- 4 May 1698: In intense cold and lacking fodder, farmers at Halifax feed gorse to their livestock
- 4 May 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his 21st birthday barbecue at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, during his campaign to be elected MP for the Whigs
- 4 May 1818: At a Radical meeting at Lydgate (Saddleworth), Samuel Bamford proposes giving the vote to women
- 4 May 1913: Leonora Cohen, Hunslet’s window-breaking suffragette, tells a May Day meeting on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, that arson will gain women the vote
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-20:38, zenith 12:58
- Moon: set 05:50, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:21-20:44, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 05:54, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:17-20:45, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 05:46, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:23-20:42, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 05:57, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 05:19-20:42, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 05:51, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: Margaret Clitherow – Catholic martyr during the Reformation. Customs: Early May bank holiday – statutory substitute for May Day.
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