Yorkshire on Sunday 12 April 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 12 April 0627: In a triumph for his Kentish wife, Edwin of Northumbria is baptised on Easter Sunday by Paulinus, in the latter’s wooden oratory on the site of York Minster
- 12 April 1706: The first four-day stagecoaches from York to London and vice versa depart from the Black Swan in each city
- 12 April 1875: The Times says that the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court
- 12 April 1924: The Bloomsbury Group’s Amabel Williams-Ellis finds little art for art’s sake in Leeds
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:05-19:58, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 04:39 set 13:29, waning crescent
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:10-20:03, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 04:44 set 13:34, waning crescent
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:07-20:03, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 04:47 set 13:29, waning crescent
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:10-20:02, zenith 13:06
- Moon: rise 04:42 set 13:35, waning crescent
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:08-20:01, zenith 13:05
- Moon: rise 04:43 set 13:31, waning crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, aka Low Sunday or Quasimodo.
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