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- 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 of Merseyside (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
- 18 March 1647: Penistone Puritans request the Committee for Plundered Ministers to remove their vicar, Christopher Dickinson, “a man of scandalous life and conversation”
- 24 December 1777: Christmas Eve at Wuthering Heights, as told by housekeeper Nelly Dean
- 23 September 1844: Geordie tourists depart for York in a special train
- 1 August 1846: Three Halifax residents appear in court charged by the Earl of Scarborough with treating Shroggs Wood as common land
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