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- 8 November 1817: Anne Lister’s uncle Joseph dies, and her aunt recounts a premonitory vision
- 19 August 1817: An encounter with John Oates of Halifax, autodidact optician
- 12 May 1817: The transport of voters in the election of the registrar of deeds at Wakefield
- 2 May 1817: Public unrest at Leeds regarding the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine
- 17 August 1821: Two slugicidal hedgehogs arrive by mail coach at Anne Lister’s in Halifax, sent by her lover in Market Weighton
- 30 March 1834: Anne Lister seals a surreptitious mock marriage with fellow-landowner Ann Walker during the Easter Sunday service at Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York
- 9 March 1834: A marriage is blocked at York despite compelling reason for it to proceed
- 1 August 1833: At Kelfield (East Riding), Hannah Beedham fails to fulfil her prophecy of her own death
- 23 April 1832: “Pilgrims” arrive at Leeds on Easter Monday on their way to York to hear Richard Oastler call for a 10-hour working day for mill children
- 23 February 1832: The son of the landlord of the Five Lions Inn, Walmgate, York is carried across the River Foss by a runaway Galloway pony
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