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- 29 August 1914: The local newspaper reproves a Rothwell councillor who called for 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 issue of the Leeds Mercury consists of London news presided over by a woodcut of a fat postman in a wig
- 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
- 18 January 1855: York Ecclesiastical Court tells Mrs Ackroyd of Knaresborough that any attempts by her husband to injure her are due to her divorce proceedings and failure to consort with him
- 26 April 1543: Robert Rawson, warder for the crown of the misses Levening, suggests to their mother at Acklam that she may wish to purchase them from him
- 19 May 1804: A woman is sold for the second time at Leeds market
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