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- 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
- 30 March 1850: The Independent quotes from a public health report on the old churchyard of what is now Sheffield Cathedral
- 23 January 1865: Leeds gentleman-photographer, William Lyndon Smith, drowns while trying to save an ice-skating couple on Benyon’s Pond at Gledhow Hall, Leeds
- 28 April 1747: John Wesley visits “the new house of the Germans” (the Moravians) at Pudsey, which is financed by overseas donations
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