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- 24 June 1679: The world’s oldest wool carders?
- 11 December 1680: The Great Comet is seen in Halifax as a natural event, in London – amid Popish Plot hysteria – as a portent
- 24 January 1680: Miners rob, murder and burn a pit-owning nonconformist minister and his mother and maid at Beeston (Leeds)
- 1 January 1680: The preacher Thomas Sharp compares New Year revellers in Leeds to the pagan Jews in Babylon
- 27 January 1830: William Cobbett rides from Leeds to black Sheffield
- 14 May 1673: Long after the longbow’s demobilization, the Scorton Archers agree to shoot annually for a silver arrow
- 22 September 1465: A menu for the enthronement at Cawood Castle of George Neville as Archbishop of York
- 8 June 0793: Alcuin of York, a leading light of the Carolingian Renaissance, reflects in a poem on the devastation this day of Lindisfarne by Vikings
- 7 November 1959: The last tram scheduled in Leeds, no. 181 or 187, runs from Cross Gates to Kirkgate or Swinegate
- 19 January 1884: Harry England explains in the Yorkshire Weekly Press why the people of the town are known as Leeds Loiners
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