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- 11 June 1682: Let your charity be as great as your county, Yorkshiremen are told by one of their own at a Yorkshire Feast sermon in London
- 23 April 1642: Having promised parliament to safeguard for it Hull’s crucial arsenal, John Hotham tells it how today he shut the gates of Hull to Charles I
- 6 April 1821: At the opening of the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, the surgeon Charles Turner Thackrah bids the town repay its debt to knowledge
- 29 December 1759: The painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson is born at Farnley Moor (Leeds) in a way that determines his given names
- 19 August 1849: The last bull-baiting at Lydgate Wakes, Saddleworth
- 26 August 1693: Thomas Sharp, a Leeds nonconformist minister, finds some dying words for his wife
- 3 July 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost
- 12 December 1641: John Sugden causes panic in Bradford and Pudsey with news of the imminent advent of genocidal Irish Catholics
- 23 March 0867: Viking mercenaries draw the Anglo-Saxons of Ælla of Northumbria into the streets of York and slaughter them
- 30 October 1981: Joanne, Michelle and Carl go caking in their Sheffield villages
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