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: Mexico expropriated the British Mexican Eagle...

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Spring 1938

Mexico expropriated the British Mexican Eagle Oil Company , and in the subsequent first class crisis
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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broke off relations with Britain.
Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. Chatto and Windus, 1968.
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13 January 1950: Carol Reed's most successful film, The Third...

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13 January 1950

Carol Reed 's most successful film, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles , opened in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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13 June 1734: A new parliament was called for this date...

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13 June 1734

A new parliament was called for this date following elections at which the opposition's aim was to shake the security of Sir Robert Walpole 's mandate.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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1952: One of Margaret Stanley Wrench's children's...

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1952

One of Margaret Stanley Wrench 's children's book, The Rival Riding Schools, was published with illustrations from F. Furnival .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1857: Dean Howson advocated the establishment of...

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1857

Dean Howson advocated the establishment of an Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church ; such an Order was recognized by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops only in 1897.
Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
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Jane Harvey

JH became in 1794 an early and unusual practitioner of the new genre of the guidebook. As a poet she begins in introspection and expands to consider, in briskly colloquial style, such topics as political...
Jane Harvey Colour photograph of Tynemouth Castle, subject of Jane Harvey's first novel.

4 November 1790: Members of the London Revolution Society...

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4 November 1790

Members of the London Revolution Society and of the local Jacobin Society attended a joint festival at Nantes in Brittany, commemorating English and French revolutionary dates (1688 and 1788).
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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Dorothy Whipple

DW was a popular and successful serious novelist from the 1920s to the 1950s, who also published short stories and a delightful childhood autobiography, and from whose notebooks a form of adult literary autobiography was...
Dorothy Whipple Colour photograph of a blue plaque on the brick wall of Dorothy Whipple's birthplace in Blackburn, Lancs. The plaque has a coat of arms at the top, and reads "The novelist Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (1893-1966) was born in this house on 26th February 1893."

1978: Philosopher Philippa Foot's most important...

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1978

Philosopher Philippa Foot 's most important essays from 1957 to 1976 were collected in Virtues and Vices.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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July 1858: Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières...

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July 1858

Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières in the Vosges to plot war against Austria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1870s: In Portsmouth, Miss Agnes Weston operated...

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1870s

In Portsmouth, Miss Agnes Weston operated an alcohol-free religious and recreational hall for sailors.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1881: The Lords Select Committee on the Protection...

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1881

The Lords Select Committee on the Protection of Young Girls proposed raising the age of sexual consent from thirteen to sixteen. This change was not made until four years later, on 21 August 1885.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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May 1836: Nicholas Wiseman (Rector of the English College...

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May 1836

Nicholas Wiseman (Rector of the English College at Rome) and Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell began publishing the Dublin Review in London.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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13 September 1759: A British party under James Wolfe climbed...

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13 September 1759

A British party under James Wolfe climbed the Heights of Abraham at Quebec and beat the French in battle there.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron, Richard Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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1655: The Commonwealth government under Cromwell...

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1655

The Commonwealth government under Cromwell clamped down on non-government-sanctioned periodicals.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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March 1942: The German Nazi Party banned Jews from buying...

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March 1942

The GermanNazi Party banned Jews from buying flowers.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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1845: Nathaniel Ward and John Lindley successfully...

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1845

Nathaniel Ward and John Lindley successfully lobbied Parliament to repeal the tax on glass in order to lower the cost of home conservatories.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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1791: Women were active in the sugar boycott this...

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1791

Women were active in the sugar boycott this year in support of abolition of the slave trade.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
278

1883: Asylum reformer and feminist Louisa Lowe...

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1883

Asylum reformer and feminist Louisa Lowe published The Bastilles of England; or, The Lunacy Laws at Work.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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August 1975: Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her...

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August 1975

Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her memoirs, entitled Letter from Reachfar.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
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11 May 1960: The US FDA approved the first birth control...

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11 May 1960

The US FDA approved the first birth control pill, Searle 's Enovid.
“The Pill: Timeline: 1951-1990”. PBS: The Pill: American Experience.

1838 - 1849: Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) published...

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1838 - 1849

Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) published her edition and translation into English of the most famous Welsh epic: The Mabinogion: from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts.
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.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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1925: Arrighi type was used for the first time...

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1925

Arrighi type was used for the first time in Robert Bridges ' Tapestry, privately printed by F. W. and S. M. (Frederick Warde and Stanley Morison ).
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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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1973: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...

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1973

US feminist theologian Mary Daly published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.
Sturgis, Susanna J. “Mary Daly, Revolting Hag”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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