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
First Jersey Royals are exported to London
- Jersey new potatoes only found fame on the mainland after the first shipment went on sale in Covent Garden on 16 April 1859.
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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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Civil partnerships are legalised
- It took civil partnerships almost three years to become legal in Jersey after they had been debated and approved by the States.
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Plans revealed for bridge to France
- Plans for a 16-mile bridge linking Jersey to France, which would also carry fibre optic cables and fuel pipes, were revealed in April 2008.
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