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1859: The Royal College of Surgeons introduced...

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1859

The Royal College of Surgeons introduced a Licence in Dental Surgery.
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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9 April 1865: The American Civil war ended when General...

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9 April 1865

The American Civil war ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant 's federal forces in the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Catton, Bruce. Never Call Retreat. Doubleday, 1965.
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Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. Fairfax Press, 1980.
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1895: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible...

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1895

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's The Woman's Bible was published in New York.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Gordon, Linda. “A Passion for Equality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2006, pp. 3-4.
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The first-edition copy at the University of Alberta was the one presented by the author to Susan B. Anthony .

December 1713: Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies;...

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December 1713

Richard Steele published Poetical Miscellanies; it included poems by Pope , Anne Finch , and himself (including praise of the unnamed and only recently identified young Elizabeth Tollet ).
Londry, Michael. Thomas Parnell’s Poem ’To a Young Lady’ as Addressed to Elizabeth Tollet. 1998.

1566: The Royal Exchange was founded in London...

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1566

The Royal Exchange was founded in London as a centre of trade and commerce.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

MEC published five novels, two collections of prose, and one work of biography during the later nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. She also contributed essays and reviews to periodicals. By the end of her...
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. She is wearing a simple dark dress with a high collar with a brooch at its centre. Her hair seems to be in a plait around her head.

23-26 June 1848: An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris...

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23-26 June 1848

An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris was defeated and the workers were massacred.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Historian Eric Hobsbawm gives higher figures for those killed and punished, saying that 3,000 of those who fought...

1903: An infamous text designed to arouse paranoia...

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1903

An infamous text designed to arouse paranoia and anti-semitic hatred, known in English as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion made its first appearance as a newspaper serial in St Petersburg.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, p. 18.
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28-30 June 1922: Republicans who had occupied the Four Courts...

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28-30 June 1922

Republicans who had occupied the Four Courts in Dublin were attacked by Free State forces. The Republicans surrendered, but destroyed the building with mines. Thus really began the Irish Civil War.
“Ireland Timeline 1918-1948”. The World at War: Timelines.

1881: The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill...

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1881

The Kyrle Society (founded by Octavia Hill in 1877) held its first public meeting, which Emilie Barrington described some years later in a letter to The Times.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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March 1884: Dadaji Bhikaji, the husband of Rukhmabai,...

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March 1884

Dadaji Bhikaji , the husband of Rukhmabai , a twenty-two-year-old Indian woman who had been married to him at the age of eleven, began legal proceedings in Bombay to force his wife to cohabit with...

1915: James Connolly, founder of the Irish Socialist...

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1915

James Connolly , founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896, included a pro-suffrage chapter entitled Women in his socialist, nationalist text The Re-Conquest of Ireland.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
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By December 1943: 80,000 women (known as land girls) were serving...

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By December 1943

80,000 women (known as land girls) were serving in England and Wales in the Women's Land Army , which had been started during the First World War to take over farm labour from men...

28 March 1979: A nuclear accident occurred at a reactor...

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28 March 1979

A nuclear accident occurred at a reactor at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, USA.
Broad, William J. “Who built the H-bomb?”. Edmonton Journal, 29 Apr. 2001, p. E11.
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14 July 1908: The Maori congress opened at Wellington,...

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14 July 1908

The Maori congress opened at Wellington, New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1824: Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning,...

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1824

Self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning , a friend of Elizabeth Philpot , discovered a skeleton of the Plesiosaurus dinosaur and sold it to the Duke of Buckingham for £200.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Henry James

HJ (who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity...
Henry James Henry James in a black-and-white photo by William M. Vander Weyde. James is seen full-face, looking forward and to the left, wearing a formal suit, with bald head slightly tilted.

Clara Codd

Clara Codd 's career in print spanned fifty years. Beginning in 1916 with her Theosophy for Very Little Children, she was a prolific writer of Theosophical texts. She also wrote poetry and an autobiography...
Clara Codd Monochrome studio portrait of Clara Codd, c. 1910. She is standing behind a table, a book in her left hand. She has a neutral expression, and wears a dark dress with white detail around the sleeves and on the lower half of the bodice, as well as a long bead necklace.

1921: The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted...

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1921

The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted its first female member, Victoria Drummond , a god-daughter of Queen Victoria , who owed her start as an apprentice engineer to the First World War.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Christabel Coleridge

CC 's writing career spanned over forty years in the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. She published nearly thirty-nine novels, four collaborative fictional works, one collection...

1917: The Iconoclast, a feminist novel by Helen...

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1917

The Iconoclast, a feminist novel by Helen Hamilton , was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1 October 1954: In the Movement, a leading article in the...

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1 October 1954

In the Movement, a leading article in the Spectator, identified a newly sceptical and debunking tendency in modern British poetry, opposed to social hierarchy and cultural authority, including that of modernism.
Collini, Stefan. “Self-Positioning”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 12, 25 June 2009, pp. 17-19.
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May 1921: American pilot Laura Brownell set a world...

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May 1921

American pilot Laura Brownell set a world record for women by performing the loop-the-loop one hundred and ninety-nine times.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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January 1967: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association...

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January 1967

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was founded, with an eye to the long-standing discrimination exercised by Northern Ireland Unionists against Roman Catholics (and to the gains won by the US Civil Rights movement).
“Northern Ireland Civil Rights’ Movement”. BBC: History: Wars and Conflict: The Troubles: Origins/Civil Rights.