Yorkshire Almanac 2026

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 5 April 2026 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:22-19:45, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: set 06:55, waning gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:27-19:50, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: set 07:00, waning gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:24-19:50, zenith 13:07
  • Moon: set 06:54, waning gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:27-19:49, zenith 13:08
  • Moon: set 07:02, waning gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:25-19:48, zenith 13:07
  • Moon: set 06:57, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    Religion: Easter Sunday. Customs: Beverley Minster Choir sing from the top of the tower.

Entries for Easter Sunday:

  • 30 March 1834: Anne Lister seals a surreptitious mock marriage with fellow-landowner Ann Walker during the Easter Sunday service at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York
  • 19 April 1747: The Methodist John Nelson is attacked by an affluent mob while preaching at Heworth Moor and Acomb (York) on Easter Sunday

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    The Yorkshire Almanac is a day-by-day calendar, featuring modern happenings in the heavens and on earth and some 973 historical serendipities (776K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,706 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,990 subjects. Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling, composing and coding the Yorkshire Almanac online at bedtime since 2021, and it's now available in paperback. Also: Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder Performs the Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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