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- 1816/12/03 - In a Sheffield crowd torn between violent and reformist radicalism, some long for metropolitan revolutionary excitement
- 1817/11/10 - With organised Luddism in decline, an insured gig-mill burns on Hunslet Lane, Leeds
- 1852/11/08 - Commander John R. Ward, R.N., rescues Ann Millanby from the Tees at Stockton
- 1662/11/08 - The Leeds corporation authorises the formation of trade guilds
- 1680/08/02 - William Dolben, perhaps reluctantly, condemns Thomas Thwing to death at York for his part, without co-conspirators, in a ficticious conspiracy – the Popish Plot
- 1838/07/23 - Mary Morellee of Birstwith (Nidderdale) is killed in a stagecoach race on Lofthouse Hill
- 1771/04/22 - The Leeds and Liverpool Canal appeals the prices illegally set by Bingley landowners for the compulsory purchase of their ground
- 1339/04/22 - During a crackdown on unregulated yeast-related activity, Wooldale (Holmfirth) is fined for hiding Alice del Bothe, its unofficial alehouse-keeper
- 1642/01/23 - Entering Hull to claim it for parliament from Charles I, young John Hotham receives divine warning of his and his father’s acephalous fate
- 1889/05/23 - The poet Edward Carpenter writes of walking into the polluted hell that is Sheffield and finding steel producer Charles Wardlow most strangely engaged
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