Entries for the tag ‘Rochdale’
📌 Old Lancashire mill-town at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, 9.8 miles (15.8 km) northeast of Manchester. 
- 8 June 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding
- 12 December 1641: John Sugden causes panic in Bradford and Pudsey with news of the imminent arrival of genocidal Irish Catholics
- 1 November 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and himself dies later of pneumonia
- 12 February 1677: Heavy snow leaves Oliver Heywood unsure whether to cross the Pennines into Lancashire
- 5 June 1696: The Great Recoinage brings a satellite of the Royal Mint to York and rioting to Rochdale
- 16 December 1722: Thomas Nettleton of Halifax recounts to James Jurin his success in inoculating against smallpox
- 13 September 1816: The greatness of Great Britain
- 20 March 1848: Showman Pablo Fanque tells an inquest how he overfilled a poorly propped Leeds circus, which collapsed, killing his wife
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