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- 2 May 1844: The Bradford Observer reports a 10% increase in two years in the borough’s population
- 17 June 1830: Prophet John Wroe exorcises the epileptic daughter of a Bradford wool-sorter
- 12 November 1819: The first, nocturnal vision of Prophet Wroe in one of his fields at Tong Street, Bradford following his near-fatal fever
- 28 November 1796: The Royal Navy seeks recruits among the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton (ER)
- 30 July 1798: The homeward-bound Greenland whaler Blenheim fights off a Royal Navy press gang in Hull harbour, killing two boarders
- 27 May 1746: Advertisement for a cockfight featuring 86 roosters at Pocklington (East Riding)
- 1 December 1773: 2½ days after leaving London, legal clerk Foster Powell walks into York, rests briefly, and starts back
- 14 March 1787: Death of Levi Whitehead, centenarian walker and runner of Bramham, near Wetherby
- 11 July 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull
- 1 July 1840: The opening of the Hull and Selby Railway counters threats to Hull’s port from Goole, Scarborough and Bridlington
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