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Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.

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1833: Medical Faculties in Scotland imposed mandatory...

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1833

Medical Faculties in Scotland imposed mandatory study of midwifery.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
128

1833: Karl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built...

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1833

Karl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built an electric telegraph which operated over 1.25 miles.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
299
Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
21, 137

1833: The Royal Entomological Society of London...

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1833

The Royal Entomological Society of London was founded; it admitted women on the same terms as men.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
389
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
181

1833: Edward Lloyd, trained as a stenographer at...

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1833

Edward Lloyd , trained as a stenographer at a Mechanics Institute, established his own publishing firm with the appearance of Lloyd's Stenography, written, published, and promoted by himself.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 173-4

1833: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Introduction...

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1833

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 's Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy was published.
Knox, Thomas Malcolm, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. “Translator’s Foreword”. Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, translated by. Arnold Vincent Miller et al., Clarendon Press, 1985, p. v - vi.
v
Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson et al. “Translator’s Note”. Hegel’s Lectures on The History of Philosophy, Lowe and Brydone, 1963, p. v - vi.
v

1833-1834: Another uprising occurred in Italy against...

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1833-1834

Another uprising occurred in Italy against the ruling Austrian power; it failed.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
129

1833: The Dower Act finally abolished the old system...

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1833

The Dower Act finally abolished the old system (gradually eroding since the sixteenth century) which entitled a widow to life interest in a third of all property owned by her husband at any time during...

January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

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January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 193-195, 196-7, 199, 206-7, 214
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1938, pp. 59-81.

1833-34: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (meaning...

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1833-34

Thomas Carlyle 's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

January 1833: The annual Heath's Book of Beauty began publication;...

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January 1833

The annual Heath's Book of Beauty began publication; the first number was edited by L. E. L.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216

1833: Following the 1832 Reform Act, the Whig government...

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1833

Following the 1832 Reform Act, the Whig government put through (as well as a Factory Act and abolition of slavery, both August 1833) an Education Act which provided a parliamentary grant to provide or improve...

1833: This year's Keepsake had a printed jacket:...

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1833

This year's Keepsake had a printed jacket: the earliest known such book jacket to survive.
Barcham, Maureen. “Letter”. Guardian Weekly, 5–11 July 2001, p. 18.
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1833: Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby, published...

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1833

Thomas Arnold , headmaster of Rugby , published Principles of Church Reform.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Arnold, Thomas, 1795 - 1842. Principles of Church Reform. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
172

1833: Michael Faraday produced aluminum by means...

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1833

Michael Faraday produced aluminum by means of electrolysis.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
298

1833: The Factory Commission noted that just under...

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1833

The Factory Commission noted that just under one fifth of employers provided housing for workers.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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1833: The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed,...

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1833

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris was completed, and Napoleon 's statue was restored to the top of the column in the Place Vendôme.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
80

1833: A temporary hospital was opened in Dublin...

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1833

A temporary hospital was opened in Dublin by the Irish Sisters of Charity , with room for twelve patients.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
62

1833: William Whewell coined the term scientist...

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1833

William Whewell coined the term scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
298
Yeo, Richard. Defining Science: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge, and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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3 January 1833: The UK annexed the Falkland Islands, off...

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3 January 1833

The UK annexed the Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 701
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
172
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
845

Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 4 January 1833

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4 January 1833

BBBD revised and edited a volume of tales by her daughter, Arabella Sullivan , entitled Recollections of a Chaperone, on which the author's name does not appear.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
15053 (4 January 1833): 4

Gustave Doré: 6 January 1832

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6 January 1832

GD , illustrator, was born at Strasbourg in France, the middle one in a family of three children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Harcourt: 14 January 1833

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14 January 1833

The life-writer Mary, Countess Harcourt died in her early eighties at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, her husband's family seat, owned since his death by a cousin.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Fanny Kemble: 14 January 1833

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14 January 1833

FK made her Washington debut, playing to an audience that included John Quincy Adams and Washington Irving .
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Eleanor Tatlock: Shortly before 20 January 1833

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Shortly before 20 January 1833

ET died in Nottingham. She was buried at St Mary's Church there on this date.
Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock. 17–18 Aug. 2016.

Anna Wheeler: 29 January 1833

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29 January 1833

After meeting AW , Benjamin Disraeli described her as awfully revolutionary.
Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray, 1886.
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