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- 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
- 29 May 1405: On Shipton Moor, the Earl of Westmorland, acting for Henry IV, tricks the Archbishop of York and the Duke of Norfolk, rebellious defenders of York’s rights and purses
- 10 December 1769: Part of the northern ballad about Bill Brown, a Brightside (Sheffield) steelworker and hare-poacher killed by gamekeepers today near Rotherham
- 20 September 1319: During the Anglo-Scottish wars, seasoned raiders slaughter an improvised Yorkshire home guard of clergy, peasants and officials at Myton-on-Swale
- 28 July 1809: The Napoleonic career of Richard Beckett of the Coldstream Guards, Meanwood (Leeds), and the MCC, who fell today at Talavera (Toledo)
- 31 October 1967: First broadcast of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, on the At Last the 1948 Show
- 24 August 1870: Fakesong by an army captain about the sights of the St. Bartholomew’s Fair today at Reeth, Swaledale
- 9 March 1761: The North Riding Militia – “the Hexham Butchers” – massacre 45 anti-conscription rioters at Hexham, Northumberland
- 20 September 1853: Ballad composed for the inauguration this day of Titus Salt’s palace for the manufacture of woollen fabrics
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