17th April 1865
Royal Amphitheatre opens in Gloucester Street
The Royal Amphitheatre was built as a replacement for the Theatre Royal, which had burned down two years earlier. Owner Henry Cornwall could not have known at the time, but this new one would suffer a similar fate in 1899. By then, it had been sold to Wybert Rousby and its name changed back to Theatre Royal, later becoming the Theatre Royal and Opera House.
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Other events that occured in April
The St Saviour wireless case show trial
- By 1943, the war was turning against Germany, and its forces realised they needed to control the flow of information. They banned radios.
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German staff wrongly dismissed during First World War
- The managers of a Jersey hotel were ordered to pay compensation after they dismissed staff when profits tumbled during the First World War.
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Ship sinks after crew gets drunk
- When a captain attempted to bring in his ship single handed it was almost inevitable that it would end up sinking.
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Jersey Airport welcomes first private plane
- The first private plane to land at Jersey Airport completed its 275-mile crossing from the mainland in 1946.
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