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- 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
- 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
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