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- 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
- 26 December 1831: The London Zoological Society accepts the Yorkshire Philosophical Society’s offer of a mischievous bear, and suggests transport south by stagecoach
- 19 June 1892: The Liberal politician Viscount Morley attends morning service at York Minster
- 1 March 1888: John Strange Winter, a military novelist from York, presents her husband with twins, to general amazement
- 4 May 1807: Lord Milton welcomes 10,000 to his 21st birthday barbecue at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, during his campaign to be elected MP for the Whigs
- 24 November 1839: Betsy Sawyer, a freed Antiguan slave, and family servant to the Rev. Thomas Murray, dies at Yeadon
- 25 January 1328: Edward III (15) marries his cousin Philippa (13) of Hainaut (Belgium) at York Minster, in order to save England from the Scots, the French and the English
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