Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 366 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 26 May 2024 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

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

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

  • Sun: 04:40-21:16, zenith 12:58
  • Moon: rise 00:16 set 06:08, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 04:45-21:21, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 00:21 set 06:12, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 04:39-21:24, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 00:28 set 06:03, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 04:47-21:18, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 00:17 set 06:16, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 04:42-21:20, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: rise 00:21 set 06:09, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Trinity Sunday

Entries for Trinity Sunday:

  • 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower
  • 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”

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