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- 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, in the York Mystery Plays, the first Yorkshireman and -woman
- 13 June 1876: Christopher Jackman (sculptor) and Charles Barrett (tailor) deny having been in enclosed premises – at the home of the Bradford MP, Henry Ripley – for an unlawful purpose
- 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”
- 21 April 1838: The Northern Star reminds husbands that it is a criminal offence to sell one’s wife
- 24 August 1832: The Rev Henry Nussey – St John Rivers in Jane Eyre – attends his church’s Sunday School festival at Birstall
- 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
- 4 December 1990: Paul Sykes – heavyweight boxer, literary prizewinner, habitual criminal – advises the nation from the back garden of his Wakefield council house on shark attack prevention
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