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 Friday 16 May 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Heavenly data for Hull:

  • Sun: 04:55-21:00, zenith 12:57
  • Moon: rise 00:46 set 06:36, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 04:59-21:05, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 00:52 set 06:40, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 04:54-21:08, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: rise 00:59 set 06:31, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 05:01-21:03, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: rise 00:48 set 06:44, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 04:57-21:04, zenith 13:00
  • Moon: rise 00:52 set 06:37, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

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