Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 13 April 2025 »

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: 06:02-20:00, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: set 05:56 rise 21:00, full (egg) moon

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:07-20:05, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: set 06:01 rise 21:06, full (egg) moon

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:04-20:06, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: set 05:58 rise 21:07, full (egg) moon

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:08-20:04, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: set 06:02 rise 21:04, full (egg) moon

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:05-20:04, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: set 05:59 rise 21:04, full (egg) moon

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Palm Sunday ✝ Start of Passover ✝ Start of Pastover – Pastafarian feast requiring the consumption of large quantities of pasta ! Bear “palms” – willow twigs with flowers on them (Bedell 1847)

Entries for Palm Sunday:

  • 23 March 0867: Viking mercenaries draw the Anglo-Saxons of Ælla of Northumbria into the streets of York and slaughter them

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