- Pontefract Castle 14th Century
- 1390 - On 19th July 1390, Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV and son of John of Gaunt, lord of Pontefract, set sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to join the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania in a bid to convert the pagan Prussians to Christianity. Accompanying Henry were Thomas Swynford, Thomas Rempston, Hugh and John Waterton and their cousin Robert, hugh Herley (chaplain) and Sir Thomas Erpingham.
- Pontefract Castle 16th Century
- 1529 - On 19th July 1529, the ‘Beverley Sanctuary Register’ noted that Richard Dawson of Pontefract, a minstrel from the county of York, sought the liberty and protection of St John of Beverley for the murder of Brian Routch, lately of Skipton, also a minstrel.
- Pontefract Castle 17th Century
- 1645 - On 19th July 1645, Parliament's Colonel General Poyntz, Colonel Overton and nine officers came to the Barbican Gate and the committee from the castle (including Sir Richard Hutton, Sir Thomas Bland and Sir John Ramsden) went with them to a tent located at a close under Baghill, a little above Broad Lane End. At length, the committee of the besieged Royalist garrison declared that they were determined to fight it out rose and departed. The besieging Parliamentary forces hoped that an adjustment would be made the next day.
- Sandal Castle 15th Century
- 1455 - On 19th July 1455, a statement was enrolled in Parliament claiming that Henry VI had ‘declared his beloved kinsmen (the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury and Richard, Duke of York, lord of Sandal Castle) to be his faithful lieges’ with a final demonstration of complete Yorkist control five days later at Westminster when all the lords assembled swore ‘to show the truth, faith and love which they have and bear to his highness’