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- 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
- 26 August 1914: From Pontefract to the mines on the Franco-Belgian border: Cpl. Frederick William Holmes wins a VC at Le Cateau
- 18 November 1237: Robin Hood is bled to death by the nuns of Kirklees Priory, according to Victorian fakelorists
- 6 March 1684: The highwayman and racketeer John Nevison is captured at an alehouse near Sandal Castle, Wakefield
- 20 May 1606: The courtier John Lepton rides from London to York in one day, and repeats the feat on the following four
- 20 June 1817: Lines spoken by the actor Alexander Cummins at the Leeds Theatre are enacted sooner than he might have wished
- 15 April 1779: The actor John Kemble asks a society girl to be quiet during a death scene at York and is hounded by the North Riding Militia
- 11 November 1918: George Ellison of Richmond Hill, Leeds, is the last British soldier to be killed in action in the First World War
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