John Mayhall. 1860. The Annals and History of Leeds, and Other Places in the County of York. Leeds: Joseph Johnson.
Get it: All sources.- 4 February 0211: Having survived the Scots, Roman emperor Septimius Severus dies at York, perhaps at the hands of his son and fellow-emperor Caracalla
- 20 June 1681: A Leeds court discusses the kidnapping by Barbary pirates of the son of Alderman Foxcroft
- 5 August 1685: John Thompson, an ex-excommunicant, is abandoned in Leeds parish churchyard
- 10 May 1701: Most Leeds corporation members and functionaries are ordered to dress appropriately
- 1 July 1718: The first issue of the Leeds Mercury consists of London news presided over by a woodcut of a fat postman in a wig
- 23 January 1720: Mr Robertson demonstrates his ultra-compact inflatable boat on the Aire at Leeds
- 13 February 1796: Marshall and the Benyons’ linen factory at Leeds burns down with the loss of eight lives
- 6 May 1800: A bread riot at Leeds market, during Napoleon’s blockade of Britain, and following a harvest failure in 1799
- 19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market
- 13 August 1821: The laments of Ann Barber, adulterous poisoner, on the scaffold at York
- 7 October 1830: Mrs Stanley arrives in Leeds from London, to the surprise of her husband
- 4 October 1831: The end of a 33-week strike by weavers at Gott’s, Leeds
- 1 August 1833: At Kelfield (East Riding), Hannah Beedham fails to fulfil her prophecy of her own death
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 23 November 1843: James Byram of Gildersome is fined ruinously for selling used tea as new
- 8 January 1844: Members of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot stationed at Leeds riot against a graffito
- 22 August 1853: Leeds retailers agree to early closing – eight o’clock in summer and seven in winter
- 10 September 1855: Leeds celebrates the fall of Sevastopol during the Crimean War
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