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- 31 January 1833: Thomas Tennant, Mayor of Leeds, tells a court how he was mugged on Bank Street on his return from a business trip south
- 20 March 1755: Royal assent for the Whig government’s act prohibiting, among other things, on-street parking in Leeds
- 3 August 1874: The mayor of Grassington addresses the humorist and miner Thomas Blackah and the other eight Pateley Bridge antiquarians during their summer outing around Craven
- 21 September 1874: Amidst urban railway tourists, the young of Nidderdale and Wharfedale celebrate Craven Lass’s victory in the Pateley Bridge Races
- 14 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray travels from Skipton to Otley
- 13 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray walks from Malham (“Maum”) to Gordale Scar and is horrified at the sight
- 30 May 1415: A native God creates the first Yorkshireman and -woman in the York mystery plays
- 13 June 1876: Christopher Jackman (sculptor) and Charles Barrett (tailor) are charged with having been in enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose at the home of the Bradford MP, Henry Ripley
- 15 June 1876: Henry Taylor, a builder, appears before the Leeds police court charged with three violations of the building byelaws
- 11 April 1812: On a moonless night, “the army of General Ludd” attacks William Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds (Cleckheaton) – subsequently inspiring Charlotte Brontë’s “Shirley”
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