Entries for 1831
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December 1831:
- 19 January 1831: Charlotte Brontë (14) starts at Roe Head School, Mirfield (Kirklees), witnessed by her later friend Mary Taylor
- 25 March 1831: Esther Dyson of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), charged with decapitating her infant daughter, is judged insane because she is deaf-mute
- 7 May 1831: In a spoof letter to the new and liberal William IV, a Sheffield metalworker expresses, in dialect, his hopes for the Reform Act and the election then underway
- 6 July 1831: “190 boats stranded in the Selby Canal by the Aire and Calder Company’s denial of water”, favouring the new Knottingley-Goole cut
- 18 September 1831: William Wallett, an unemployed Hull clown, sets out to walk from Tickhill to Doncaster in home-made clothes
- 4 October 1831: The end of a 33-week strike by weavers at Gott’s, Leeds
- 26 December 1831: The London Zoological Society accepts the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s offer of a mischievous bear, and suggests transport south by stagecoach