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- 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 discusses the kidnapping by Barbary 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
- 24 April 1688: At Pontefract, the new Catholic and Dissenting members of the judiciary send James II thanks for permitting freedom of conscience, leading him to believe it has popular support
- 21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights
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