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- 10 October 1857: Questions from the floor of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce to the explorer and missionary David Livingstone during his exposition of the wonders of Africa
- 22 February 1865: Rioters besiege the Park Square, Leeds, home of surgeon and magistrate Henry Chorley, on the release from Armley Gaol of his dripping-thief cook Eliza Stafford
- 7 October 1830: Mrs Stanley arrives in Leeds from London, to the surprise of her husband
- 17 July 1844: Tory Radical Joshua Hobson tells Leeds council that Liberal mayor Hamer Stansfield was wrong to prohibit public meetings on the semi-privatised Kirkgate market
- 10 September 1855: Leeds celebrates the fall of Sevastopol during the Crimean War
- 24 November 1988: John Battle, MP for Leeds West, visits a constituent who had lived near the J.W. Roberts (Turner & Newall) asbestos works in Armley
- 1 September 1651: Robinson Kreutznaer sails from Hull, and soon wishes he hadn’t
- 18 November 1641: How Henry Best of Elmswell (Wolds) got his straw into optimal condition for the arrival today of the thatcher
- 25 April 1641: The mole-hunting season begins in the Yorkshire Wolds
- 5 November 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) lays his wagons up for the winter
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