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 20 April 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

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

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

  • Sun: 05:46-20:13, zenith 13:00
  • Moon: rise 03:29 set 09:56, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 05:51-20:18, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: rise 03:34 set 10:00, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 05:47-20:19, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 03:40 set 09:52, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 05:52-20:17, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: rise 03:31 set 10:03, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 05:49-20:17, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: rise 03:34 set 09:57, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Easter Sunday ✝ End of Passover ! 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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