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- 15 December 1824: Joseph Aspdin, bricklayer of Hunslet (Leeds), submits the process description for his patent for “artificial stone,” which he calls “Portland cement”
- 1 June 1318: Archbishop Melton of York tells the Ripon bailiff to ensure that everyone pays their proper share of the protection money agreed with the Scots
- 23 November 1826: A journalist from London’s Sporting Magazine buys a waistcoat at Ripon Fair
- 4 July 1829: The first London buses commence service from the Yorkshire Stingo, New Road to Bank
- 13 July 1503: On her way to marry James IV of Scotland, Margaret Tudor (13) is met between Sirowsby and Doncaster by a euphonious sheriff
- 20 November 1826: “Nimrod” of London encounters The Four Alls on a pub sign in Burniston (Scarborough) while on a hunting tour
- 3 November 1826: “Nimrod” of London gets to know a coachman during a journey from Leeds to York
- 12 June 1810: Curate Patrick Brontë anticipates muscular Christianity and creates material for Charlotte during a Whit walk from Dewsbury to Earlsheaton
- 7 November 1920: In a guest sermon in the parish church where his father had officiated, Clifford Allbutt evokes the village of Dewsbury in the 1840s
- 27 April 1924: In a letter to Edmund Gosse, Clifford Allbutt recalls the Brontës
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