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- 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
- 4 December 1843: The Tory MP for Knaresborough recounts the death in poverty of an old woman at Harden Beck, Bingley
- 11 January 1900: An explosion injures half the shift and kills four at the Leeds Steel Works, Hunslet
- 1 January 1891: Eleven snowflake girls are burnt to death during a school entertainment at Upper Wortley (Leeds)
- 20 October 1836: The West Riding Sessions contemplates the potential consequences of a post-dated watermark
- 3 January 1638: On the eve of the civil war, Henry Slingsby witnesses Royalist cavalry exercising near Wetherby on Bramham Moor, scene of the defeat of the Percy Rebellion in 1408
- 24 March 1896: Christ meets Cheops on the pyramid tomb at Sharow, Ripon under which Jessie Piazzi Smyth (who died today) was buried by her “pyramidiot” husband
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