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- 15 March 1586: Offered a jury acquittal, Margaret Clitherow of York, concealer of priests, chooses martyrdom and is crushed under her own front door
- 3 March 1775: Edward Rookes Leedes sends miners to destroy new coal workings leased by Abraham Balmes to Nathan Jowett
- 13 October 1967: Barbara Castle visits the M62 construction site and ponders regional development via road-building
- 15 November 1894: Application is made to move Maria Squires (11) of Dewsbury from a girls’ shelter in Wakefield to St Chad’s Home For Girls, Far Headingley
- 20 August 1919: Two months after the Treaty of Versailles, the Daily News reports the arrival in a Sheffield garden of a balloon released by German POWs in Skipton
- 14 February 1400: Richard II possibly dies a prisoner in Pontefract Castle, but probably not as described by Shakespeare
- 8 April 1946: Yorkshire miners’ president Joe Hall threatens strike action if Labour starts opencast mining in Lord Fitzwilliam’s gardens at Wentworth Woodhouse (Rotherham)
- 11 November 1918: On Armistice Day, Dr Trevor ApSimon (38) deserts the Pontefract men of 6th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment and rides to Maubeuge to make up for lost time
- 15 October 1838: Apologies from “imprisoned” Huddersfield workers are read to the great Chartist rally on Peep Green (Hartshead Moor), accusing middle-class radicals of betrayal
- 24 February 1777: Penniless bohemian Tom Fashion calls on redneck Yorkshire moneybags Sir Tunbelly Clumsy during tonight’s London première of a Sheridan play
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