Yorkshire on Tuesday 29 September 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 29 September 1513: Black humour in a report to Venice regarding the arrival at York of the body of James IV of Scotland after Flodden
- 29 September 1684: It being Michaelmas, the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (in song) deserts his beasts and pound and joins Robin Hood in the greenwood
- 29 September 1704: Deeds, conveyances, and wills in the West Riding must henceforth be publicly registered in Wakefield to be considered valid
- 29 September 1830: Tory Radical Richard Oastler: “free” white workers in the Bradford mills are worse off than their enslaved black counterparts in the colonies
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:57-18:45, zenith 12:51
- Moon: set 10:55 rise 19:07, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:02-18:50, zenith 12:56
- Moon: set 11:00 rise 19:12, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:01-18:48, zenith 12:55
- Moon: set 11:03 rise 19:06, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:02-18:49, zenith 12:56
- Moon: set 10:58 rise 19:14, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 07:01-18:48, zenith 12:54
- Moon: set 10:59 rise 19:09, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: Michaelmas, feast of the Archangel Michael, greatest of angels – associated with the transhumance of flocks down from summer pasture and post-harvest accounting.
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