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- 22 May 1874: As ironworkers breach their employment contract to celebrate Whitsun, the Darlington Iron Company breaches it too by turning away those wishing to work
- 24 October 1877: Six years after the inauguration of its horse trams, the Leeds Tramways Company tests a steam car by Kitson and Co. of Hunslet
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
- 10 October 1908: Morley-born Liberal PM Asquith gives a speech on alcohol licensing at the Leeds Coliseum, as suffragettes, suffragists, unemployment activists and mounted police entertain outside
- 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
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