Writers with Entries

214 new free-standing chronology entries on such contextual matters as:

• the Iliad
• the Olympic Games
• the British national postal service
• bank notes
• the appointment of Maria Gaetana Agnesi as professor of mathematics in 1750
• street lighting
• Madame Tussaud's
• Reuter's news service
• the coinage of the word "allergy"
• Grace Annie Lockhart's attainment of the first university degree by a woman in the British Empire
• Annie Jump Cannon's receipt of the first honorary doctorate by a woman from Oxford University
• the British Socialist Party
• the Greenham Common women's peace camp
• the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi of Iran

138 existing author entries were also updated or enhanced. 143 existing free-standing chronology entries were also updated or enhanced