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1839: Louis Jacques Daguerre announced his discovery...

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1839

Louis Jacques Daguerre announced his discovery of a photographic process; his daguerrotypes were silver images produced on copper plates.
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
150

July 1780: Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday sc...

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July 1780

Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday school.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
21-6
This inaccuracy persists although the Dictionary of National Biography specifically says Raikes's school was not the first.

Julia Kristeva

JK is one of the three French feminist theorists whose writings dominated the field of British and especially French and North American literary criticism and humanities scholarship during the 1980s and 1990s. Particularly influential have...
Julia Kristeva Colour photo of Julia Kristeva sitting at a round white table. Her hair is short and blonde. She wears a black leather jacket and belt over a black shirt with embroidery at the neckline. She is smiling.

18 December 1914: The British protectorate over Egypt was ...

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18 December 1914

The British protectorate over Egypt was proclaimed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
870

6 November 1910: Roger Fry organised the Manet and Post-Impressionists...

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6 November 1910

Roger Fry organised the Manet and Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Galleries , which presented the art of Cézanne , Gauguin , Matisse , and Picasso to London for the first time.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
345
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
107
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 160
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. Hogarth Press, 1940.
153-4
Anscombe, Isabelle. Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts. Thames and Hudson, 1981.
11-12
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...

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1904

The first scientific paper read by a woman for the Royal Society was delivered by Hertha Ayrton .
“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/.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.

Lent term 1887: A paper by Henrietta Barnett at the Cambridge...

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Lent term 1887

A paper by Henrietta Barnett at the Cambridge Ladies' Discussion Society led to the foundation that year of the Women's University Settlement in Southwark, the first settlement for women.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blackfriars Settlement. 2005, http://www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk/blfs/index.php.

3 April 1849: Frederick William IV's refusal of the imperial...

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3 April 1849

Frederick William IV 's refusal of the imperial crown of Germany signalled the end of the Frankfurt Assembly, which collapsed in December 1849.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
176-7, 256

Christmas Day 1989: In Romania, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu,...

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Christmas Day 1989

In Romania, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu , whose regime was hideously oppressive in social policies, particularly those of gender, were shot by army firing squad after being removed from office by popular uprising.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
239

1868: Actress and music-hall star Vesta Tilley...

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1868

Actress and music-hall star Vesta Tilley (born Matilda Alice Powles) made her stage debut at the age of four at the Theatre Royal in Gloucester.
Maitland, Sara. Vesta Tilley. Virago, 1986.
ix, 1-2, 11, 15-6, 18-9

Barbara Pym

BP was a distinguished, understatedly comic novelist of the twentieth century, whose autobiographical writings (diaries, letters, and notebooks) were published only after her death.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
1-2, 9
Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
xiii-xiv
Having achieved moderate success during her early career...

1932: Vyrnwy Biscoe published 300 Careers for ...

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1932

Vyrnwy Biscoe published 300 Careers for Women.
Biscoe, Vyrnwy. 300 Careers for Women. L. Dickson, 1932.

1868: The earliest observed and recorded epidemic...

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1868

The earliest observed and recorded epidemic of poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, or polio, took place near Oslo in Norway.
Poliomyelitis: A Brief History. http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/poliohistory.htm.

25 March 1741: The Foundling Hospital achieved in London...

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25 March 1741

The Foundling Hospital achieved in London by Thomas Coram and others opened its doors.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
335-7

1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...

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1960

Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
101-2

10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...

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10 August 1911

The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords , bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith

9 January 1799: A bill bringing in the first graduated income...

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9 January 1799

A bill bringing in the first graduated income tax resulted from William Pitt 's demand in December 1798 for increased taxation to fund the war with France.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Income Tax

23 November 1644: John Milton published Areopagitica, which...

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23 November 1644

John Milton published Areopagitica, which has become one of his most famous prose tracts because of its subject-matter: a condemnation of censorship, or (stretching its original position slightly) even a defence of freedom of...

1787: In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un...

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1787

In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un bourgeois de Newhaven, which makes a serious and straightforward case for full civil rights for women, including suffrage.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
132

1680: The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury...

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1680

The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury Square, was developed, setting a style for the houses of the upper classes and urban middle ranks for over a century.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
1

12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

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12 October 1984

The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party was holding a conference.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
937, 979-80

7 December 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi heard the African John...

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7 December 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi heard the African John Frederick Bridgetower speaking in public at Bath, to great applause, and wrote how Dr. Johnson would have adored that Man!
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
1: 330-1 and nn2-4

14 January 1921: Rosita Forbes (disguised as a Muslim woman)...

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14 January 1921

Rosita Forbes (disguised as a Muslim woman) and Hassanein Bey travelled from Cyrenaica to Kufra in the Libyan desert.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1075

L. S. Bevington

LSB was an essayist, philosopher and poet, one of a very small handful of publishing anarcho-communist women. She issued three collections of poetry, over thirty essays, and a small number of translations in the latter...

12 April 1883: The National Liberal Federation passed a...

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12 April 1883

The National Liberal Federation passed a resolution in favour of repealing the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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