September 23
Posted by sydney on Feb 23rd, 2009
- 1792: February 23, 1792 – Began to drink tea by day light.
- 1791: February 23, 1791 – The farmers are very much behind in their plowings for a spring crop thro’ the wetness of the season.
- 1787: February 23, 1787 – On Feb. 23 the cuckow was heard at Rolle in Switzerland. Rooks build at Faringdon parsonage.
- 1785: February 23, 1785 – Snow-scenes very beautiful. Venus makes a most beautiful appearance.
- 1784: February 23, 1784 – The tops of the blades of wheat are scorched with the frost.
- 1780: February 23, 1780 – Ivy-berries, now near ripe, are coddled with the frost. Heath fires.
- 1779: February 23, 1779 – Drivers use the summer track. Roads dusty.
- 1775: February 23, 1775 – Flocks of hen chaffinches, with some bramblings among them. Saw several empty nutshells with a hole in one side, fix’d in the chinks on the head of a gate-post, as it were in a vice, & pierced as I suppose, by a nuthatch, sitta europaea. Vid: Wllughby’s Ornithol::
- 1774: February 23, 1774 – Several muscae appear Skylarks would sing if the wind would permit.
- 1770: February 23, 1770 – Blue mist. Vulg. called London smoke. Quae: Does this meteorous appearance shew itself on the N:E. side of London when the wind is N:E? If that is the case then that mist cannot proceed from the smoke of the metropolis. This mist has a strong smell, & is supposed to occasion blights. When such mists appear they are usually followed by dry weather. They have somewhat the smell of coal-smoke & therefore are supposed to come from London as they always come to us with a N:E:wind.
- 1768: February 23, 1768 – Great rain. Prodigious floods in Yorkshire, which have swept away all the bridges.
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