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
Corbière lighthouse is lit for the first time
- Corbiere’s 19m-tall lighthouse sits on a tidal island, which lifts the light a further 17m above the high tide mark. It was first lit in 1874.
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Inquiry opens into naked, burned motorist
- A man was found naked and burned to death in Jersey in unexplained circumstances in April 1946. An open verdict ruling was given.
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Condor’s first crossing between the mainland and Channel Islands
- Condor Ferries first service between the mainland and the Channel Islands set off from Weymouth with Captain Martin Dumont on the bridge.
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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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