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- 19 January 1831: Charlotte Brontë (14) starts at Roe Head School, Mirfield (Kirklees), witnessed by her later friend Mary Taylor
- 24 June 1809: Exiled from London to York, the Rev. Sydney Smith promises Lady Holland not to smite the partridge
- 1 February 1829: Jonathan Martin’s attempt to burn down York Minster is frustrated by a frolicsome chorister
- 12 March 1837: Robert Southey (poet laureate, 62) sends Charlotte Brontë (governess, 20) some career advice
- 21 January 1837: The gravestone of 25-year-old Charlotte Hall, today the first tenant of the York Cemetery
- 30 May 1836: Albinia Chaloner becomes the last person to be interred in York Minster
- 9 September 1835: Princess Victoria attends Handel’s Messiah at York Minster
- 25 December 1963: Tolkien recalls the genesis of Lúthien and Beren in 1919, as Edith danced amidst ‘hemlocks’ at Roos in Holderness
- 14 November 1879: Alemayehu, orphaned son of the deposed Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, dies at the Headingley home of his tutor at Rugby School, Professor Ransome
- 17 February 1995: Symbols of community decline in Leeds
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