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- 31 October 1602: An ailing James Kendall of Grassgarth, Weston (Otley) makes his will
- 18 May 1836: Depressed by chronic illness, Edward Burlend of Barwick-in-Elmet addresses a sleeping infant
- 30 July 1825: The Bridlington bellman Dickey Fletcher cries two keys found on the resort’s North Sands
- 1 January 1845: Approaching death, the Rev. Samuel Redhead, Vicar of Calverley (Bradford) writes in his diary of his hopes for the year
- 25 October 1536: God stands between Henry VIII’s army at Doncaster and a superior force of Catholic rebels from the Pilgrimage of Grace, according to a Tudor chronicler
- 24 September 1892: Vanity Fair profiles Lord Hawke, amateur captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and soon to be the most successful county captain ever
- 13 March 1884: Darlington iron magnate William Barningham is portrayed for a probate court from the diary of a beneficiary of his decision to leave his daughter little and his wife nothing of £450,000
- 10 March 1884: Darlington’s mayor opens the Gasworks Committee’s exhibition of appliances, aiming by increasing consumption to reduce the municipal debt and household energy costs
- 22 May 1874: As ironworkers breach their employment contract to celebrate Whitsun, the Darlington Iron Company breaches it too by turning away those wishing to work
- 24 October 1877: Six years after the inauguration of its horse trams, the Leeds Tramways Company tests a steam car by Kitson and Co. of Hunslet
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