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- 31 March 1856: William Allison, a 4-year-old port-drinker, hears what he believes to be Russian gunfire while building sandcastles on Redcar beach
- 12 May 1865: John Pick Allison, a Thirsk solicitor, writes to comfort his 14-year-old son William at Rugby School
- 6 December 1853: The Rev. Heslop of Forcett (Richmondshire) writes in the old style to his protégé John Pick Allison regarding the death of the latter’s uncle, and suspicions of legacy-hunting
- 7 April 1679: Catholic missionary Nicholas Postgate (80) speaks words of hope before being hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York on the false word of Titus Oates
- 3 August 1873: Eight years after the end of slavery in the United States, the Fisk Jubilee Singers reduce a crowded Hull street to tears with performances of spirituals
- 16 August 1845: The York Herald is conned into posting the American actor Ira Aldridge’s sensational account of his own death
- 9 July 1849: Suicide of a London bride at Holbeck (Leeds)
- 19 August 1767: The will of James Bean of Aldbrough (Holderness), proved today, frees and provides for his ‘mulatto’ daughter Nancie on Jamaica
- 5 November 1841: The over-provision of cottage-style housing in Sheffield by speculative builders
- 16 October 1840: A traffic count is held on Park Road, Sheffield on the quietest day of the week
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