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- 30 January 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells her old schoolmistress, Margaret Wooler, that Emily’s railway investment strategy may be unsustainable
- 8 May 1849: Amid revelations of fraud at the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Richard Nicholson, business partner and brother-in-law of the Railway King, George Hudson, drowns himself in the Ouse at York
- 21 May 1785: Aged 15, William Butterworth of Leeds runs away to sea and joins a slaver
- 15 December 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth
- 23 September 1846: Wilkie Collins’ Captain Wragge, an amiable rogue, walks out into York
- 6 November 1786: William Butterworth of Leeds witnesses the “grand pageant” celebrating the demise in July of Duke Ephraim, Efik king of Old Calabar
- 13 August 1788: Emigrating from Grenada to England, the parrots of William Butterworth of Leeds survive a Caribbean hurricane
- 26 February 1787: William Butterworth of Leeds arrives at Grenada (West Indies) from Calabar (West Africa) on the Hudibras (Liverpool) with the survivors of a cargo of 360 slaves
- 20 September 1819: Flags and fasces at a procession from Briggate to Hunslet Moor to protest the Peterloo Massacre
- 7 July 1819: The Rev. Sydney Smith complains from Foston to the historian John Allen of summer colds
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