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On This Day In Lincolnshire History
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Dates of Events and Customary Practices That Took Place in Lincolnshire.
January
January
- 1st January: First Footing - Always take something into the house first thing on New Year's Day; so shall things be coming into the house all year, not going out of it. -Lincolnshire Folklore
- 1st January: New Year's Day Wooding - A New Year's Day wooding walk was practised. Coal, silver and a piece of wood was collected. Doors were knocked upon and the words spoken: Here's a bit of wood, I hope it does you some good. A penny was paid, monies were collected. - Lincolnshire Folklore
- 6th January: Haxey Hood
- 6th January: Twelfth Night
- Plough Monday: The first Monday after Twelfth Night. Traditionally ploughs were decorated and plays performed. See: Mummers Plays
- 17th January: Wassailing The Apple Orchards
February
- 2nd February: Candlemas Day
- 2nd February in 1141, the First Battle of Lincoln took place.
- 14th February: St Valentines Day
- 22nd February Great Grimsby Day
March
- March: Daffodil Day
- 7th March in 1941-ball-bearing factory Ransom and Marles bombed by the Germans.
- 8th March: Shrove Tuesday
- 9th March: Ash Wednesday
- 21st March: Vernal Equinox - the gaining daylight reaches the point whereby daylight and night hours are of equal length. Light continues to gain.
- March: The Aegir at the Spring and Autumn Equinox.
- 25th March: Lady Day
- 25th March in 1852 Grimsby Dock Tower completed.
April
- 1st April: April Fool's Day
- 3rd April: Mothering Sunday
- 18th April in 1943 - 619 Squadron RAF was active till 18th July 1945.
- April: Lincoln Horse Fair
- 23rd April: St George's Day
- 24th April: Easter Day
- 24th April: St Mark's Eve
- 30th April: Walpurgis Night
- 30th April: Spalding Flower Parade The first Spalding tulip parade took place in 1959.
May
- 1st May: May Day
- May 1915 construction began on the Humber Forts taking more than four years to build.
- 8th May in 1092 the first Bishop of Lincoln Remigius de Fécamp died in office.
- 14th May: ‘Pag-rag-day’ the time when the servants in Lincolnshire pack up their clothes (rags) and change their places. See article (page 33) by May Hill in 'Lincolnshire Poacher' Spring 2010.
- 20th May in 1217 the Second Battle of Lincoln took place at Lincoln Castle
- Carrington, Boston Steam Rally
- Boston: May Sheep Fair
- Ascension Day: Welton Well Dressing Derbyshire Well Dressing
- 29th may: Royal Oak-Apple Day
- 29th May in 1920 Louth town, Lincolnshire, suffered flooding resulting in the deaths of 23 people.
June
- Deeping Show: 4th & 5th June.
- 19th June: Father's Day
- 21st June: Midsummer - the time when the sun has peaked at the height of it's intensity with days at their longest length and nights at their shortest length. Dark now gaining after this peak.
- 22nd June 2011 The Lincolnshire Show
- 23rd June 2011 The Lincolnshire Show
- 23rd June 1233 Stow Lincolnshire Medieval Fair was inaugurated, running until 1854.
- 24th June: Midsummer Day Feast
July
- 15th July: St Swithun's Day
- 30th & 31st July: Heckington Show (Founded in 1864)
August
- 1st August: Lammas Fair
- The Great August Horncastle Horse Fair took place. (Early 1800's)
- 5th August: 1204 Brigg Horse Fair established.
- 6th August 1809: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate was born in Somersby Lincolnshire.
- 7th August 2011 Revesby Country Fair
- 10th August: St Laurence Day Fair at Fulstow
- 11th August 1855 Horncastle railway opened.
- 11th August 1915: The worlds first "Tank" began construction in Lincoln.
- 30th August 1920: The first Lincolnshire Show held.
September
- September: Harvest Home
- 14th September: Lincoln Fool's Fair - cattle
- September 1347/8 the Black Death arrived in Lincolnshire
- 21st September: Autumn Equinox - the time when dark has gained to the point whereby dark and light are once more of equal length in time. Dark continues to gain.
- 29th September: Michaelmas Day It was a day when agricultural workers took up new employment. Also a day of feasting, traditionally goose.
October
- 1st October in 1536 the uprising, a protest against the dissolution of the monasteries known as the Pilgrimage of Grace began in Louth.
- 2nd October: Nottingham Goose Fair
- October 1854 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to visit Grimsby dock and open the Grimsby Dock Tower.
- 31st October: All Hallow's Eve: See Samhain
November
- 11th November: Martinmas - Alternative date when farm labourer's changed employment.
- 15th November in 1943 630 Squadron RAF was formed at East Kirkby near Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
December
- 3rd December 2011 Lincoln Christmas Market Established in 1982
- 4th December 2011 Lincoln Christmas Market
- 21st December: Winter Solstice - the time when dark has reached its greatest depth and the sun is re-born and begins to grow daily with new intensity.
- 25th December: Christmas Day - birth of Christ in the Christian faith.
- 26th December: Boxing Day
- 31st December: New Years Eve
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