April 13

Posted by sydney on Apr 13th, 2009
  • 1793: Apirl 13, 1793 – Bat out.  This is the twelfth dry day.
  • 1792: April 13, 1792 – A great thunder-storm at Woodstock, & Islip: the Charwel much flooded, & discoloured.  No rain at Oxford.  Prodigious was the damage done about the Kingdom on this day by storms of thunder, lightening, & vast torrents, & floods, & hail.  The town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire was  quite deluged, & the shops & sitting rooms filled with water.  A house was burnt at some place; & in others many people hurt, & some killed.
  • 1788: April 13, 1788 – Bees frequent the cucumber-frames.  Nightingales heard below Temple.
  • 1787: April 13, 1787 – Sam White elected fellow of oriel College in Oxford.
  • 1786: April 13, 1786 – Daws are building in the church.  Nightingale sings at French-mere.
  • 1784: April 13, 1784 – Mutton per pound 5d, Veal 5d, Lamb 6d, Beef 4d.  At Selborne.
  • 1783: April 13, 1783 – Three swallows at Goleigh.
  • 1778: April 13, 1778 – One beech is in full leaf in the Lythe.
  • 1776: April 13, 1776 – Rain is much wanted.  At Fyfield; charadrius oedicnemus returns & clamors April 14; first swallow, April 16; nightingale April 16; cuckow Ap. 20; swifts first seen Apr: 26: came to their nesting-place May 8.  At Lyndon, in Rutland first swallow Apr: 16; first swift May 6th.
  • 1775: April 13, 1775 – The barley-season goes on briskly.  Hops are poling.  Curlews clamour.  *The Saxon word hlithe, whith the h aspirate before it, signifies clivus: hence no doubt two abrupt steep pasture-fields near this village are called the short, & long lithe.  Much such another steep pasture at about a mile distance is also called the lithe.  Steethe in Saxon sigifies ripa, a perpendicular bank: hence steethe swalwe, riparia hirundo.
  • 1774: April 13, 1774 – Apricots begin to set.  Planted seven rows of potatoes.  Nightingale in my fields.
  • 1772: April 13, 1772 – Redstart appears and whistles.  Swallow.  Garden too wet for sowing.
  • 1771: April 13, 1771 – The dry weather has lasted just a month this day.  Dry weather is always supposed to help the wheat in the clays: but the wheat in general is so poor this year, that it is hardly seen on the ground.  It will be worth remarking at harvest how the crop will turn out.
  • 1769: April 13, 1769 – Regulus non cristatus medius.  The second-sized willow-wren has a plaintive, but pleasing note, widely different from that of the first which is harsh and sharp.  Merula torquata.  The ring-ouzels appear again on Noar-hill in their return to the northward: they make but a few days stay in their spring visit; but rest with us near a fortnight as they go to the Southward at Michaelmas.
  • 1768: April 13, 1768 – Hirundo domestica!!!

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