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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       C. C. Rogers, Lady Vyvyan

2nd      Robert Peverell Hichens

3rd       Mark Guy Pearse    

4th        Joseph Hocking

5th       St.Piran’s Day

6th       Davies Gilbert PRS

7th       Horace Augustus Curtis VC

8th       John Bettesworth-Trevanion

9th       George Fagan Bradshaw DSO

10th     Jago’s Glossary of the Cornish Language

11th     Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford

12th     Moses Pitt, Anne Jefferies and the Faeries

13th     Jack Penhale

14th     Botallack Mine (Closure)

15th     Surrender of Royalist Forces (Tresillian)

16th     Joseph Henry Collins

17th       Owen Fitzpen - sailor, slave, merchant    

18th       General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert    

19th        Lieutenant John Hawkey    

20th        Patrick Heron    

21st       Walter Langley    

22nd       Ernest Proctor ARA    

23rd       Sir Bevil Grenville    

24th      John Passmore Edwards    

25th      William Lemon    

26th       Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes    

27th       Jeanne du Maurier    

28th       Virginia Woolf    

29th      Samuel Drew    

30th       The Longest War in History    

31st       James Henry Finn VC