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- 19 August 1931: Lawrence Ennis of Dorman, Long & Co. of Middlesbrough, producer of steel and bridges, supervises closure of the arch on Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 19 July 1849: As William Clarke’s All-England Eleven begins a match against a Hull 22, the local paper notes the failure of seaports to produce good cricketers
- 4 September 1764: Laurence Sterne, curate at Coxwold, is minded to sin at Scarborough
- 15 November 1745: Nanna Rann Dann dies at Easingwold, leaving a curious epitaph
- 3 April 1797: A sporting flyer with some unsporting spelling
- 15 June 1795: An advert on a chimney sweep’s door at Easingwold
- 26 July 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth travels with brother William from Scarborough across the Wolds to Beverley and Hull
- 15 July 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain’s mate John Sheppard of Hull wins a VC trying to row through enemy lines on an improvised explosive punt to blow up a Russian warship
- 18 February 1889: An effigy of Jack Nelson, wife-beater, is paraded with rough music through Hedon (Holderness) by a furious crowd
- 21 October 1536: Henry VIII’s herald encounters part of the Pilgrimage of Grace at Pontefract
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