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- 29 March 1461: The Wharfe runs red as the Yorkists destroy the Lancastrians at Towton (Tadcaster)
- 14 July 1663: Leeds borough returns for the hearth tax, designed to pay for the household of Charles II
- 9 May 1622: Leeds corporation legislates against Sunday street life
- 26 March 1662: The Leeds corporation appoints a cook, Thomas Gorst
- 14 February 1779: James Cook of Marton-in-Cleveland tries to recover a boat from some Hawaiians
- 17 November 1839: Excise officers entrap Leeds barbers violating the sabbath
- 1 June 1300: Margaret of France, Queen of England, goes into labour at Brotherton while hunting
- 17 May 1828: Joseph Pickles of Wilsden, a Methodist convert, dies, having partially recovered his sight, and helped produce 410 descendants
- 12 July 1770: William Hickington, the Pocklington Poet, writes a verse-will
- 2 October 1800: Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at Culloden and the York assizes, dies in the York poorhouse
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