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EventDate
Naftel’s paintings go on display 8th December
The Guernsey Tapestry is completed 6th December
Horticultural painter William Caparne was born 17th November
Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint 4th September
Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens 7th July
Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born 22nd May
First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea 12th March
Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard 16th February
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12 August

A minister was found dead at Icart Point

06 July

Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens

26 November

Guernsey held its first full marathon

30 March

Guernsey adopts Sterling currency

On this day in Jersey...


  • The Co-operative movement is born in Jersey
    The Co-operative Society was established after a 23 May meeting at the Oddfellows Hall and opened its office at New Street one month later.
  • Plane scrapes the runway at Jersey Airport
    A DC-8 flying into Jersey came in with its nose too high and its tail too low. The tail struck the runway and scraped along it.

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