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- 19 May 1147: An expedition leaves Fountains Abbey to found Barnoldswick (WR/Lancs), predecessor of Kirkstall Abbey, as told by one of the colonists
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”
- 30 November 1756: A Leeds brewery advertises its March beer, made with fresh Holbeck water, for wholesale in time for Christmas
- 10 August 1756: Leeds “gentlemen” burn an effigy of Admiral John Byng, scapegoat for the Whig government’s failure to save Minorca (and the Mediterranean theatre) from the French during the Seven Years’ War
- 5 November 1754: A French fencing master turns highwayman on Rothwell Haigh (Leeds)
- 27 August 1754: The (Tory) Leeds Intelligencer calls on Holbeckers to accept the appointment by Samuel Kirshaw, Vicar of Leeds, of a new curate, Richard Fawcett Snr, to St Catherine’s Chapel
- 1 February 1708: A wide range of citizens receives the sacrament at Leeds parish church, one for the first time
- 17 February 1812: Leeds businessmen meeting at the magistrates court act against the authors of the first successful Luddite attack in Yorkshire, at the Oates, Wood, and Smithson works at Oatlands, Woodhouse Carr
- 13 January 1812: “My neighbours would think I was going to ruin if they could not smell my factory children half an hour after they had gone down the lane”
- 15 January 1812: The Leeds authorities foil the first Luddite attack in Yorkshire – at Sheepscar
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