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- 23 March 1743: His monstrous penis today having terminated its earthly mission, Lancelot Blackburne, (absentee) Archbishop of York, bids his ladies farewell
- 27 June 1778: Civil engineer John Smeaton reviews the construction for London Trinity House of two lighthouses on Spurn Point, eroding from seawards and growing southwards into the mouth of the Humber
- 1 October 1399: Henry IV pardons the hermit Matthew Danthorpe, who he found building an unlicensed chapel when he landed at Ravenspurn on his way to dethroning Richard II
- 6 January 1862: “Flint Jack” of Whitby, an antiquarian forger, demonstrates knapping at a London lecture on the ancient flint implements of Yorkshire
- 18 October 1765: Court-appointed experts order alum producers Samuel Howlett and John Mathews of Iburndale, Sleights, to clean up Whitby harbour and the Esk
- 9 January 1772: Civil engineer John Smeaton suggests how to avoid a water conflict between the Boroughbridge mills and the new River Ure navigation from Ripon
- 17 August 1778: Civil engineers John Smeaton and John Wooler explain how to use the River Hull to flush the dock which has replaced the northwest section of the city walls
- 9 September 2014: A Home Office researcher (2000-02) recalls police harassment following her documentation of child sexual abuse and institutional indifference in Rotherham
- 11 October 1776: The civil engineer John Smeaton advises Leeds Infirmary on the storage of water for washing and brewing
- 26 January 2007: John Revis, “a true Yorkshireman,” reacts to news that he bears an African-specific Y chromosome from an 18th-century ancestor
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