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- 2 July 1644: Henry Slingsby of the Royalist York garrison recounts Prince Rupert’s defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I’s hopes in the north
- 18 June 1753: John Alcock becomes rector of Burnsall, Craven, initiating several amusing decades
- 31 July 1881: Underway to the Bicycle Touring Club’s annual August meet, a London rider struggles on the road from Doncaster to Harewood via Pontefract and Leeds
- 29 September 1684: It being Michaelmas, the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (in song) deserts his beasts and pound and joins Robin Hood in the greenwood
- 11 March 1864: An inhabitant of Bacon Island survives the Great Sheffield Flood
- 5 November 1866: Bonfire Night firework riots at Halifax
- 1 January 1916: A newly published New Year’s Day first-foot verse tells Yorkshire readers that God helps those who help themselves
- 31 December 1848: A fragment of the Richmond Hagmena song, performed this New Year’s Eve by the town pinder
- 8 February 1745: Pioneering but pennyless philologist Eugene Aram murders a wealthy Knaresborough wastrel
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
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