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- 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 terminates the threat to Hull’s port from Goole, Scarborough and Bridlington
- 10 June 1846: John Richard Walbran begins an antiquarian excavation of the Neolithic henge on Hutton Moor, Dishforth (Ripon)
- 13 August 1821: The laments of the adulterous poisoner Ann Barber on the scaffold at York
- 3 July 1837: The Swan, a Hull whaler, returns from the dead (the ice of the Davis Strait) bearing three whales
- 19 October 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion
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