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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       Robert Reginald Whale

2nd      Cornwall’s Oldest Newspaper

3rd      Donald Healey

4th     John Hawkins FRS

5th       Robert Were Fox the Elder

6th      Annie Walke

7th      Dame Laura Knight RA

8th       World Heritage Status

9th       East Wheal Rose Disaster

10th    Falmouth bombing raids

11th     Thomas Flindell

12th    Rev. William Moyles Rogers

13th     Anthony Payne

14th    Mabel Lethbridge OBE

15th     Winthrop Mackworth Praed

16th     Henry Hawkins Tremayne

17th        Arthur Townshend Boscawen

18th        George Lambourn

19th        Spanish Armada (First Sighting)

20th       Mounts Bay Sacked by The Spanish

21st      William Marshall

22nd      John Drew MacKenzie

23rd       The first aeroplane flight over Cornwall

24th      Robert Barclay Fox

25th      Robert Were Fox the Younger

26th       In Search Of St. Anthony in Roseland

27th       John Pollard

28th       John Wells

29th      Richard William Pearse

30th      Charles Wesley (St. Just)

31st      Dod Procter RA (Death)