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- 22 December 1666: The borough of Leeds orders the return of records “public and pious” lost during the civil war
- 3 November 1694: Leeds’s borough treasurer is mandated to pay goldsmith Arthur Monjoy £61 for making the ceremonial mace
- 12 January 1825: Safety failings kill 24 in an explosion at Gosforth Pit, Middleton (Leeds), owner Charles Brandling MP, manager John Blenkinsop
- 1 July 1822: Sheffield miners are reminded of the dangers of working without one of Humphrey Davy’s new safety lamps
- 6 July 1822: A journalist finds Aeolian harmony in a fall from York’s city walls
- 22 May 1711: Leeds’s first white-cloth hall is opened on Kirkgate, replacing the outdoor market on Briggate, and competing with Wakefield’s 1710 building
- 26 March 1870: Henry Madden is sentenced to six months with hard labour at Leeds despite the judge accepting that he had not mugged Daniel Hawksworth
- 13 July 1626: Charles I gives the borough of Leeds its first municipal charter, reflecting York’s loss of industry, protecting its textiles, and reducing the power of most burgesses
- 31 March 1851: The Leeds abolitionist Wilson Armistead submits his census return, including the names of two lodgers – the escaped American slaves, William and Ellen Craft
- 9 April 1938: Huge crowds witness air-raid demonstrations on Holbeck and Woodhouse Moors, Leeds
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