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- 19 April 1747: The Methodist John Nelson is attacked by an affluent mob while preaching at Heworth Moor and Acomb (York) on Easter Sunday
- 9 May 1757: John Wesley rides into Huddersfield in the Wild West Riding
- 8 December 1770: The Rev Henry Venn’s heart and lungs require that he move from polluted Huddersfield to a Cambridge village
- 2 June 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip (“like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder”) of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills)
- 4 November 1857: Completion of the White Horse of Kilburn (Hambleton Hills)
- 18 April 1812: Dressed as a country lass, George Butler recites the West Riding dialect tragicomedy of Richard and Betty at the Theatre Royal, Ripon
- 5 July 1858: The view from the tower of Beverley Minster
- 25 August 1840: Debating the teetotal vegetarian Frederic Lees at Rotherham, the Wesleyan James Bromley calls the pledge unchristian, and “alcohol-free” wine undrinkable
- 16 March 1676: Charles Chauncy of Bridlington tells a court what he found when he went to confiscate horses and firearms from John Constable, Catholic
- 18 March 1650: Dorothy Rodes of Bowling (Bradford) blames witchcraft by Mary Sykes for the postpartum illness of her daughter
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