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 15 June 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: 04:27-21:36, zenith 13:01
  • Moon: rise 00:23 set 08:18, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Leeds:

  • Sun: 04:32-21:41, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: rise 00:28 set 08:23, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:

  • Sun: 04:25-21:45, zenith 13:05
  • Moon: rise 00:31 set 08:17, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for Sheffield:

  • Sun: 04:34-21:38, zenith 13:06
  • Moon: rise 00:25 set 08:25, waning gibbous

Heavenly data for York:

  • Sun: 04:29-21:40, zenith 13:04
  • Moon: rise 00:27 set 08:20, waning gibbous

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Trinity Sunday ! Father’s Day in the UK and other US-influenced countries – see also 19 March

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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