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March 1694: The French poet Boileau published his misogynist...

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March 1694

The French poet Boileau published his misogynist Satire X, which targets the poet Antoinette Deshoulières (who had died in February) as a précieuse, and Scudéry 's Clélie as advocating adultery.
Schroder, Volker. “Women Writers Response to Boileaus SATIRE XAmerican Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 26 Mar. 2004.

1914: The Gentleman's Magazine, the first monthly...

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1914

The Gentleman's Magazine, the first monthly in the world (launched in January 1731) and the longest-running English literary periodical, ceased publication.
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.

1851: The Sheffield Women's Political Association...

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1851

The Sheffield Women's Political Association (also known as the Sheffield Women's Rights Association) was founded to urge the inclusion of women in the People's Charter.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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2 September 1752: Falling into line with the rest of Europe,...

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2 September 1752

Falling into line with the rest of Europe, Britain changed from the Julian calendar (developed by the Romans) to the Gregorian calendar, which corrected its accumulated slippage backwards from astronomical time; the next day...

1800-1810: An unprecedented nine hundred and six parliamentary...

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1800-1810

An unprecedented nine hundred and six parliamentary Enclosure Acts furthered the process of privatising of common land.
Baridon, Michel. “The Cultural Historian and the Garden”. Lumen, Vol.
xix
, 2000, pp. 23-37.
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Elizabeth Bury

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...
Elizabeth Bury Oval line print of Elizabeth Bury by J. Burden, 1777 (more that fifty years after her death). Her hair is fashionably styled on top of her head with a couple of locks hanging down. She is wearing a dress with white at neckline and cuffs and her name, " Mrs. Elizabeth Bury", is written below.

1909: Automotive innovations this year included...

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1909

Automotive innovations this year included electric headlights, electric generators, four-door bodies, and oil gauges on dashboards.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1861: Maria Rye opened at 12 Portugal Street, London,...

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1861

Maria Rye opened at 12 Portugal Street, London, a law-copying office to provide employment opportunities for women.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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28 November 1820: Philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in...

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28 November 1820

Philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen, Germany.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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28 August 1858: Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the...

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28 August 1858

Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the British Medical Journal on a new medical therapy involving morphine injections through a hypodermic syringe.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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By November 1754: John Shebbeare anonymously published The...

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By November 1754

John Shebbeare anonymously published The Marriage-act. A Novel, in which a whole range of marital and broader calamities are laid at the door of Hardwicke 's recent Marriage Act.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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1843: Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor, patented...

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1843

Alexander Bain , a Scottish inventor, patented an electrochemical recording telegraph, an early version of the facsimile machine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1922: Anna Freud presented a paper to the Vienna...

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1922

Anna Freud presented a paper to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society entitled Beating Phantasies and Day Dreams, on the basis of which she was accepted as a member.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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16 May 1903: The Workers' Educational Association was...

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16 May 1903

The Workers' Educational Association was founded in London by Albert and Frances Mansbridge as the Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men , primarily by the Extension of University Teaching.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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1888: Britain united the colonies of Trinidad and...

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1888

Britain united the colonies of Trinidad and Tobago.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
198
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.

Christine de Pisan

Christine de Pisan wrote for a living (years before any woman did this in Britain). She is remarkable both as a sophisticated, polished, and versatile writer of poetry in French, and as a proto-feminist. Her...
Christine de Pisan Illumination from the Queen’s Manuscript, c. 1410–14, with a portrait of Christine de Pisan in her study. She is sitting at a cloth-draped desk writing in a book with a box for writing materials beside her. She is wearing a white hat that appears to be bat ears or a large V on her head. She is wearing a double horned headdress with gauzy white veil and a bright blue dress (both the signs of high birth or status). A small white dog sits at her feet. (It is absent from a closely related picture that giv

1854: An electric telegraph was installed between...

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1854

An electric telegraph was installed between London and Paris.
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.
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26 June 1896: William Morris's Kelmscott Press published...

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26 June 1896

William Morris 's Kelmscott Press published the works of Chaucer , one of its most splendid and famous productions.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163, 165
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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From : Arthur Young spent the time in Ireland (as...

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From Summer 1776

Arthur Young spent the time in Ireland (as agent to Lord Kingsborough ) on which he based his Tour in Ireland, published in 1780.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...

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3 December 1751

Christopher Smart , as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act Horace Walpole called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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1534: A sidesman, enforcing the officially approved...

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1534

A sidesman, enforcing the officially approved order of service, removed Certain maidens
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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from church in Langham, a village in East Anglia, for reading matins from an English Primer.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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20 April 2011: Jean MacLeod, Scottish author of a hundred...

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20 April 2011

Jean MacLeod , Scottish author of a hundred and thirty romantic novels published by Mills and Boon , died at the age of one hundred and three.
“Obituaries. Jean MacLeod”. Daily Telegraph, 28 Apr. 2011, p. 29.
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October 1972: The National Health Services Amendment Bill...

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October 1972

The National Health Services Amendment Bill allowed local authorities in Britain to support vasectomy services.
Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
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1835: Father Luigi Gentili arrived in England to...

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1835

Father Luigi Gentili arrived in England to join the Roman Catholic mission at Prior Park; he was to become one of the most famous Catholics of the century, converting hundreds of people and bringing...