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- 22 August 1572: The head of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland and leader of the Catholic Rising of the North, is impaled on Micklegate Bar, York, where it stays for two years
- 14 April 1843: John Nicholson, “the Airedale Poet,” “the Bingley Baron,” dies after falling into the Aire while drunk
- 14 April 1792: The ballad of Spence Broughton, hung this day at the York Tyburn for robbing the Sheffield and Rotherham mail
- 15 March 1715: Frustrated lovers Martha Railton and Roger Wrightson of Bowes (NR) are buried together
- 29 January 1785: The beginning of a fox-hunting song by W.S. Kenrick and J. Burtell about the odyssey of the Cleveland hounds on this day
- 12 October 0633: Edwin of Northumbria is killed and his army defeated by Gwynedd and Mercia at Hatfield Chase near Doncaster
- 13 May 1851: The Flying Dutchman runs the Great Match against Voltigeur at the York races
- 1 December 1851: John (65) and Betty (73) of Wibsey are at long last united in a “funny wedding” at Bradford
- 22 August 1138: King David of Scotland is overtaken near Northallerton by a furious local army in possession of a great standard – a Victorian view
- 25 September 1705: Daniel Defoe is amazed by Leeds’s outdoor cloth market on Briggate, shortly before the opening of the white cloth hall
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