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A Cornish Almanack

How Cornwall Shook the World

This volume comprises a day-to-day calendar for a Cornish year but extending over more than 800 years.

It records major events or the birth or death of someone who made an impact in Cornwall or elsewhere.

A Cornish Almanack recounts financial and sexual scandals, political intrigue as well as the births and deaths of artists, scientists and politicians who had close connections to Cornwall.

There is one event, birth or death for every day of the Cornish year.

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Month

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

1st      George Ramsay Acland Millst

2nd      Sandys Wason (Ejection from Cury)

3rd      Harold Knight RA

4th     Matthew Paul Moyle

5th       Maurice Petherwick M.P.

6th      Sarah Crosby (Methodist Preacher)

7th      The Mount’s Bay Great Storm

8th       William Arnold – Fosterr

9th       Henry Quick

10th    Juanita Casey

11th    Leonard Fuller

12th    Joseph Carne FRS

13th     Sir Terry Frost

14th     S.S. Mohegan

15th    Thomas Pellow of Penryn (Slave)

16th     Hugh Peters

17th        Gerard  Collier

18th        Trevor Bell

19th        Marjorie Mostyn

20th       Levant Mine Disaster

21st      Grant Richards

22nd       Sir Cloudesley Shovell

23rd       Sir Charles Wills

24th       Denys Val Baker

25th      Richard Lomax

26th      Thomas Merritt

27th       Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves

28th      Viscountess (Hilda) Runciman

29th      William Sandys

30th      Rev. John Whitaker

31st     &nbs Lionel Birch