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- 9 March 1721: Thomas Brodrick tells Lord Middleton how John Aislabie, Ripon MP and Walpole’s chancellor, was sent to the Tower for taking bribes from the South Sea Company
- 23 January 1720: Mr Robertson demonstrates his ultra-compact inflatable boat on the Aire at Leeds
- 5 September 1914: Boycott professional football to get players to fight the Germans, says the ex-vicar of Oulton in the Rothwell local paper
- 29 August 1914: The local newspaper reproves a Rothwell councillor who called on women not to sew for the troops
- 3 September 1810: Mr Jackson, Dewsbury druggist, gets drunk while visiting a prisoner at Rothwell
- 8 March 1768: William Evers, engineer-inventor at Swillington (Leeds), advertises his new machine: a windmill for the threshing and grinding of grain
- 1 July 1718: The first edition of the Leeds Mercury
- 10 May 1701: Most Leeds corporation members and functionaries are ordered to dress appropriately
- 20 June 1681: A Leeds court hears of the enslavement by North African pirates of the son of Alderman Foxcroft
- 5 August 1685: John Thompson, an ex-excommunicant, is abandoned in Leeds parish churchyard
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