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8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...

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8 March 1702

King William III died and Queen Anne assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II 's coronation day as well as St George's Day.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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6 April 1199: Richard I died and King John succeeded to...

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6 April 1199

Richard I died and King John succeeded to the throne.
Norgate, Kate. England under the Angevin Kings. B. Franklin, 1969.
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11 October 1866: Alexandra College, Dublin, was founded by...

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11 October 1866

Alexandra College , Dublin, was founded by Anne Jellicoe .
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2025, 10 vols.
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1984: Dulcie Gray published her novel Anna Sta...

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1984

Dulcie Gray published her novel Anna Starr.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Deborah Moggach

DM 's literary career dates from the 1970s. By 2004 she had produced fifteen novels, a number of television screenplays, and two volumes of short stories, besides her journalistic output (reviews, essays, interviews). Her novels...
Deborah Moggach Photo of Deborah Moggach in conversation with Antonia Byatt during day one of the London Book Fair at Kensington Olympia

1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...

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1927

Victor Gollancz established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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18 January 1871: The new German Empire was declared in the...

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18 January 1871

The new German Empire was declared in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles; William I of Prussia became Emperor William I of Germany .
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Clark, Christopher. “I could bite the table”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2011, pp. 15-16.
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Margaret Roberts

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

4 January 1960: Existentialist French writer Albert Camus...

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4 January 1960

Existentialist French writer Albert Camus died in a car crash at the early age of forty-eight.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 January 2008

27 July 1901: Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first...

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27 July 1901

Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first set of test glides near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1987: The Erasmus programme was launched, providing...

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1987

The Erasmus programme was launched, providing a framework for formal academic exchanges for students and faculty among European universities.
Baumard, Marilyne, and Philippe Jacqué. “European exchange programme comes of age”. Guardian Weekly, 2–8 Mar. 2007, p. 33.
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1658: L. Lemnius in The Secret Miracles of Nature...

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1658

L. Lemnius in The Secret Miracles of Nature in Four Books wrote of the respective roles of both sexes in creating new life, and of the offensive odour and effects of menstrual blood.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
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Early 1759: Voltaire published his most famous single...

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Early 1759

Voltaire published his most famous single work, the philosophical tale Candide; ou, L'Optimisme, simultaneously in several different countries; three English translations appeared that same year.
Wade, Ira O. “The First Edition of Candide: A Problem of Identification”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
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, 1959, pp. 63-88.
Wade

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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End of July 1903: The Village Press was set up in a barn in...

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End of July 1903

The Village Press was set up in a barn in Park Ridge near Chicago, Illinois, by Frederic and Bertha Goudy .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

LMWM , eighteenth-century woman of letters, identified herself as a writer, a sister of the quill
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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haunted by the daemon of poetry. She wrote poems, essays, letters (including the letters from Europe and...
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Photo of a full-length painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson recording her time in Turkey. She stands outdoors, with famous buildings of Constantinople (Istanbul) visible beyond. She is dressed in gold: a caftan whose deep V-neck and open skirt reveal a lace shift and long harem drawers. She also wears a gold cap which she calls a talpock on her dark hair, a blue cloak edged with ermine, pearl drop earrings, and pointed slippers. The presence of the young Black boy behind her is start

4 January 1960: The Stockholm Convention or EFTA Convention...

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4 January 1960

The Stockholm Convention or EFTA Convention was signed, setting up the European Free Trade Association ; it came into force on 3 May.
European Free Trade Association,. EFTA (European Free Trade Association) at a Glance: 40 Years of Free Trade. http://www.efta.int/content/about-efta/history.

16 October 1981: Publishers News: Weekly for People in the...

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16 October 1981

Publishers News: Weekly for People in the Book Trade began to appear, printed in London.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Sykes, Angela. “Publishing News”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001, p. 184.
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18 March 1741: The burning of several buildings in New York...

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18 March 1741

The burning of several buildings in New York City convinced the colonial authorities of the existence of a plot hatched by a conjunction of black slaves and poor whites.
Horsmanden, Daniel. A Journal of the Proceedings in Detection of the Conspiracy. James Parker, 1744.

19 April 1966: American Roberta Gibb became the first woman...

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19 April 1966

American Roberta Gibb became the first woman to run the full Boston Marathon .
“Boston Marathon History”. Boston Athletic Association.

Anne Bacon

AB , one of the famously well-educated Cooke sisters, was a major Tudor translator of religious and religious-administrative texts, as well as a letter-writer. Her work was published in the mid-sixteenth century.
Anne Bacon Portrait of Anne Bacon Looking at towards audience. She is wearing a ruffled collar over a dress with jewellery. She is holding a small book in her right hand.

1956: Alice Stewart and others published in the...

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1956

Alice Stewart and others published in the Lancet a ground-breaking study linking childhood cancers with the use of X-rays on pregnant women.
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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24 November 1960: An experimental writing group was formed...

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24 November 1960

An experimental writing group was formed in France, calling itself Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle or OuLiPo (in English Workshop of Potential Literature).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
24 November 2010
Grimstad, Paul. “Anticipatory Plagiarism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 31-2.
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1835: Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later Oberlin...

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1835

Oberlin Collegiate Institute (later Oberlin College) opened in the newly-founded Oberlin, Ohio. It was the first post-secondary institution in the USA to admit women as well as men, and non-white students as well as...

1926: Three-quarters of the local education authorities...

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1926

Three-quarters of the local education authorities in Britain discriminated against married women, forcing them to resign upon marriage.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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