It all happened here on the streets of Doncaster, to the people of Donny, these are the historic events that happened here once upon a time in our history:
| 27th January 1910 | Flush toilet pioneer Thomas Crapper passed away and was buried in Elmers End.» |
| 28th January 1943 | Conisbrough's rock drummer Brian Keenan was born in New York.» |
| 28th January 1930 | Last of the Summer Wine and Open All Hours writer Roy Clarke was born in Austerfield.» |
| 28th January 1854 | Heavy flooding in Marsh Gate Doncaster - nearly everywhere inundated.» |
| 29th January 1939 | Doncaster Rovers legend Alick Jeffrey is born in Rawmarsh, son of a colliery blacksmith.» |
| 30th January 2004 | Hatfield colliery ceases production. |
| 30th January 1839 | Westminster Cathedral architect John Francis Bentley was born in Doncaster. |
| 30th January 1772 | Owston and Doncaster's political radical and chief druid Godfrey Higgins was born. |
| 30th January 1708 | James Bosvill, The King of the Gypsies, died and was buried at Rossington.» |
| 1st February 1986 | Hatfield and Thorne collieries merged again. |
| 1st February 1936 | Syd Bycroft makes his debut for Doncaster Rovers after signing from Grantham Town for £251. |
| 2nd February 1976 | Worzel Gummidge's Arksey-born author Barbara Euphan Todd sadly passed away in Berkshire.» |
| 2nd February 1940 | David Jason (Granville in Open All Hours) was born in Edmonton, London. |
