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- 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
- 12 April 0627: In a triumph for his Kentish wife, Edwin of Northumbria is baptised on Easter Sunday by Paulinus, in the latter’s wooden oratory on the site of York Minster
- 23 January 1643: Thomas Fairfax, the Rider of the White Horse, captures Leeds from the Beast with the help of Psalm 68
- 25 February 1879: 500 await the black flag signalling the hanging at Armley Gaol (Leeds) of Charles Peace – steelworker, violinist, picture-framer, burglar, stalker, murderer
- 21 May 1643: Thomas Fairfax takes two “true prisoners” at Wakefield, but is then surrounded by their comrades
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