John Bibby. 2022. A York Chronicle, 1815-1914. In preparation.
Reproduction by kind permission of the author. Get it: All sources.- 13 August 1821: The laments of Ann Barber, adulterous poisoner, on the scaffold at York
- 6 November 1830: Bodysnatchers strike at Fulford, York
- 19 January 1831: Charlotte Brontë (14) starts at Roe Head School, Mirfield (Kirklees), witnessed by her later friend Mary Taylor
- 26 December 1831: The London Zoological Society accepts the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s offer of a mischievous bear, and suggests transport south by stagecoach
- 23 February 1832: The son of the landlord of the Five Lions Inn, Walmgate, York is carried across the River Foss by a runaway Galloway pony
- 9 March 1834: A marriage is blocked at York despite compelling reason for it to proceed
- 9 September 1835: Princess Victoria attends Handel’s Messiah at York Minster
- 30 May 1836: Albinia Chaloner becomes the last person to be interred in York Minster
- 21 January 1837: The gravestone of 25-year-old Charlotte Hall, today the first tenant of the York Cemetery
- 12 March 1837: Robert Southey (poet laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice
- 5 January 1846: Writing to fellow-botanist William Borrer, Richard Spruce of Ryedale despairs of his Pyrenean mosses arousing interest amid George Hudson’s railway mania
- 23 September 1846: Wilkie Collins’ Captain Wragge, an amiable rogue, walks out into York
- 15 December 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth
- 8 May 1849: Amid revelations of fraud at the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Richard Nicholson, business partner and brother-in-law of the Railway King, George Hudson, drowns himself in the Ouse at York
- 30 December 1862: The Times reports that, on the eve of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Stonewall Jackson wishes above all to talk about York Minster and its splendid organ
- 26 October 1869: Joshua Rowntree, a young solicitor, joins the party trying to rescue survivors of the wreck of the Ellen south of Scarborough Spa
- 15 September 1872: Death of “York’s last Waterloo hero”
- 1 March 1888: John Strange Winter, a military novelist from York, presents her husband with twins, to general amazement
- 19 June 1892: The Liberal politician Viscount Morley attends morning service at York Minster
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