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1838-1839: The majority of Female Chartist Associations...

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1838-1839

The majority of Female Chartist Associations were formed during these two years.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
199-200

July 1765: The child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

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July 1765

The child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left London, where he had resided throughout the previous year, playing before the royal family, and enjoying great popular success.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
483
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
8: 742

1923: MGs, sports cars with no windscreen, an outside...

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1923

MGs, sports cars with no windscreen, an outside handbrake, and wire-spoked wheels, were introduced in Britain.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
200

5 February 1801: William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after...

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5 February 1801

William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after failing to persuade the king that Catholic Emancipation was a necessity for the political health of Ireland.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
340-1

Mid-June 1376: This year marked the first recorded mention...

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Mid-June 1376

This year marked the first recorded mention of the York cycle of mystery plays, which were held on the feast of Corpus Christi (the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, nearly two months after Easter).
Davidson, Clifford. Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain. Ashgate, 2007.
141

10 December 1993: Richard J. Roberts from Great Britain was...

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10 December 1993

Richard J. Roberts from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with American Phillip A. Sharp . The two were recognized for discovering split genes.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

1 June 1660: Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England...

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1 June 1660

Mary Dyer (a colonial immigrant from England and a friend of Anne Hutchinson ) was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for preaching as a member of the Society of Friends .
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

May 1765: A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the...

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May 1765

A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the government of Britain in case of the monarch's further illness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
126

1901: The National Social Purity Campaign was established...

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1901

The National Social Purity Campaign was established to reassert standards for public morality by advocating Christian morals.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
267

1964: At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mary Rand,...

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1964

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mary Rand , a long jumper, became the first woman gold medal winner from Britain.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1688: The population figure for the British Isles...

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1688

The population figure for the British Isles this year has been estimated at five million.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
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By 1514: Mary, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry...

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By 1514

Mary , daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII and later Queen of France), had her own schoolmaster.
Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. Methuen, 1984.
161

1955: The first Teflon nonstick cookware, manufactured...

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1955

The first Teflon nonstick cookware, manufactured in France by Tefal , went on sale.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
263

October 1956: The International Atomic Energy Agency was...

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October 1956

The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 273

Frances E. W. Harper

An active lecturer and author in support of abolition, women's rights, and racial equality in the mid-nineteenth century, FEWH was, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr , the first African-American professional woman of letters.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr et al. “Introduction”. Three Classic African-American Novels, Vintage Books, 1990, p. vii - xvii.
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Frances E. W. Harper Black and white three-quarter-length photo of Frances E. W. Harper, frontispiece to an edition of her "Poems", Philadelphia, 1898. She is standing, her hair parted in the middle and pulled back; she looks straight forward, direct but dreamy. She is wearing a long skirt and sleeveless top with a shirt under it, with bows at the collar. Her hands rest on a chairback.

April 1976: The home computer Apple 1 made its debut...

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April 1976

The home computer Apple 1 made its debut at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. Designed by Steve Wozniak , it was mounted on a wooden stand, its component parts not covered...

8 October 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel...

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8 October 1970

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 October 2013

1860: Duty on opium imports was abolished, and...

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1860

Duty on opium imports was abolished, and in this year alone over £187,000 worth of opium was brought into Britain from Turkey.
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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: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...

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Autumn 1848

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy .
Bell, Quentin. Victorian Artists. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
31-2, 38
Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
15
Knight, Joseph, 1829 - 1907. The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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1703: A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled...

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1703

A class-conscious educational pamphlet entitled The Ladies' Catechism was published.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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10 December 1958: Frederick Sanger from Great Britain was awarded...

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10 December 1958

Frederick Sanger from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research involving the structure of proteins, especially insulin.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

19 August 1991: A coup in the Soviet Union overthrew the...

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19 August 1991

A coup in the Soviet Union overthrew the Communist government; this led to the crumbling of the Soviet empire.
Crystal, David. “Edit It Again, Sam”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 2, 1 June 2000–2026, pp. 82-3.
83
“The Soviet Era”. Geographia: Europe: Russia: History.
Johnson, Richard William. “Living on the Edge”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 9, 28 Apr. 2011, pp. 32-3.
32

9 July 1914: The Representative Church Council voted to...

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9 July 1914

The Representative Church Council voted to allow women to sit on local parish councils.
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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Henrietta Sykes

HS published two novels and a collection of shorter fictions with the Minerva Press during the early nineteenth century. She did not put her name on title-pages. A volume of poems and songs has been...

1919: Beatrice Kean Seymour published her first...

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1919

Beatrice Kean Seymour published her first novel, Invisible Tides.
The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton.
57 (1920): 156