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- 31 May 1844: Mrs Haslegrave is savaged by her brother-in-law’s bear at his pleasure garden in Wakefield
- 1 November 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and himself dies later of pneumonia
- 27 February 1717: Julia Calverley of Esholt Hall completes ten panels of needlework currently displayed at Wallington Hall, Northumberland
- 3 October 1715: Government agents arrive at Esholt Hall in search of Walter Calverley’s Jacobite brother-in-law, William Blackett
- 30 May 1705: Gloves, scarves and money are distributed liberally among attendees of the funeral of Waide Calverley
- 8 January 1844: Members of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot stationed at Leeds riot against a graffito
- 23 November 1843: James Byram of Gildersome is fined ruinously for selling used tea as new
- 8 October 1671: The infant Walter Calverley suffers the first of several near-fatal accidents
- 15 August 1677: John Thoresby writes from Leeds to his son Ralph in London recommending he keep a diary
- 13 February 1669: Oliver Heywood’s sons set off from Northowram to Heath Grammar School, Halifax, without having learned their Latin
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