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- 19 December 1775: James Cook names a freezing south Pacific promontory after his native cathedral
- 14 September 1864: In his last race, the St Leger Stakes (Doncaster), the legendary Blair Athol faces his great rival, General Peel, in monsoon conditions
- 30 June 1880: Tom Palliser, a Kilvington drunk, denies to a York court that a half crown received from Col. Dawnay, Conservative candidate for Thirsk, was an electoral bribe
- 11 August 1875: The Whitby town crier’s unique act for the municipal dog show
- 12 August 1866: William Allison (15) goes grouse shooting for the first time, on Saltergate Moor (Pickering)
- 12 September 1865: An unexpected gesture from Richard Scurr, watchmaker, at the Thirsk burial of John Pick Allison, solicitor
- 2 January 1863: William Allison (11) fails to shoot any rabbits at Coxwold
- 16 June 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom King, ‘The fighting sailor’
- 10 March 1863: William Allison (11) rides two miles on a donkey from Cundall to Brafferton to help celebrate the marriage of the future Edward VII to Alexandra of Denmark
- 28 September 1827: The good life at Stapleton Park (Pontefract), country house of the still unmarried and vaguely solvent horse-racer and politician Edward Petre, 33 today
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