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- 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
- 3 December 1816: A revolutionary bread riot is averted at Sheffield
- 10 November 1653: Thomas Baynes (allegedly) compares Parliament’s sequestrators to an agricultural pest
- 10 November 1817: Though organised Luddism is in decline, a gig-mill burns on Hunslet Lane, Leeds
- 8 November 1852: Commander John R. Ward, R.N., rescues Ann Millanby from the Tees at Stockton
- 8 November 1662: The Leeds corporation authorises the formation of trade guilds
- 2 August 1680: William Dolben, perhaps reluctantly, condemns Thomas Thwing to death at York for his part, without co-conspirators, in a fictitious conspiracy – the Popish Plot
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