Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

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

« Yorkshire on Tuesday 10 June 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:28-21:32, zenith 13:00
  • Moon: set 03:10 rise 21:38, waxing gibbous

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:33-21:37, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: set 03:15 rise 21:44, waxing gibbous

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:27-21:41, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: set 03:07 rise 21:50, waxing gibbous

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:35-21:35, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: set 03:18 rise 21:40, waxing gibbous

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 04:30-21:37, zenith 13:03
  • Moon: set 03:12 rise 21:43, waxing gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Whit Tuesday

Entries for Whit Tuesday:

  • 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
  • 12 June 1810: Curate Patrick Brontë anticipates muscular Christianity and creates material for Charlotte during a Whit walk from Dewsbury to Earlsheaton

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