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- 19 March 1866: Corn-merchant J.R. Mortimer of Driffield opens a prehistoric burial mound on the Wolds and suggests a link to ancient Greek descriptions of Balearic rites
- 19 March 1734: The dying son of a gypsy is baptised at Carlton in Cleveland
- 2 January 1883: Wilson Barrett premières a pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe at the Grand Theatre, Leeds
- 4 June 1838: The low-church Leeds Library censors a high-church novel in which a shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affections of a wealthy young widow
- 6 November 1903: Percy Broomhead fires his revolver at his neighbour’s house during a defamation dispute
- 6 October 1903: Egged on by his wife, Percy Broomhead, fishmonger, imputes the chastity of Ethel Hawkins, assistant to Mrs Bland, a neighbouring grocer at Walkley, Sheffield
- 21 March 1890: Following a miners’ strike, an anonymous Yorkshire vicar says that only parliamentary reform will bring industrial peace
- 21 March 1880: The surgeon Thomas Pridgin Teale tells Leeds fathers to get involved in their children’s early years
- 14 June 1876: Thomas Pridgin Teale’s family encounters a rabid dog in Headingley
- 22 December 1857: With only a small clock planned for Cuthbert Brodrick’s over-budget town hall, Leeds Council absents itself from a talk by Edmund Beckett, designer of the mechanism for Big Ben
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