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- 6 June 1817: A government agent provocateur on his way to a meeting of pro-democracy radicals at Thornhill encounters Thomas Murray, weaver and reform activist
- 28 July 1348: Archbishop Zouche writes from Cawood Palace to York ordering action against the great pestilence threatening England – the Black Death
- 2 July 1916: Sam Cooper of Sheffield and the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment takes a branch from Fricourt Wood on the second day of the Battle of the Somme
- 6 May 1744: John Nelson, one of the first Methodist preachers, finds the welcome from gaoler James Barber at Leeds prison superior to the accommodation
- 30 June 1828: A toddler encounters her father’s opium in their home on Chapel Lane, Hull
- 13 March 1853: Army veteran John Sykes takes a blunderbuss to Hiram Yeadon during a feud between Wesleyan and Reformer Methodists at Yeadon
- 22 November 1884: The railway will not revive lead mining at Grassington, but may bring tourism to the Dales
- 30 October 1914: Joseph Colgrave of Sheffield and the 5th Royal Irish Lancers wins a DCM rallying leaderless Punjabi Muslims at Hollebeke (Ypres)
- 2 February 1188: Pilgrim-soldier Margaret of Beverley is freed after 15 months of slavery following the siege of Jerusalem
- 5 December 1911: Thomas Stewart, analytical chemist, and John Gott, author of Rib-ticklers for Parsons, are jailed for blasphemy at Leeds
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