Yorkshire Almanac 2026

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Sunday 31 May 2026 »

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: 04:35-21:22, zenith 12:59
  • Moon: set 03:52 rise 22:24, full (flower) moon

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:40-21:27, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: set 03:57 rise 22:30, full (flower) moon

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:34-21:30, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: set 03:49 rise 22:36, full (flower) moon

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:42-21:24, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: set 04:00 rise 22:26, full (flower) moon

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:37-21:26, zenith 13:02
  • Moon: set 03:54 rise 22:29, full (flower) moon

Red-letter days and other special events:

    Religion: Trinity Sunday – celebration of the doctrine of the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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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    The Yorkshire Almanac is a day-by-day calendar, featuring modern happenings in the heavens and on earth and some 970 historical serendipities (775K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,700 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,972 subjects. Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling, composing and coding the Yorkshire Almanac online at bedtime since 2021, and it's now also available in paperback. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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