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16 April 1948: The Convention for European Economic Co-operation...

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16 April 1948

The Convention for European Economic Co-operation established the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation , first germ of the future European Union .
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.

1695: As an index of the decline of brewing as...

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1695

As an index of the decline of brewing as women's work, historian Deborah Simonton notes that Aberdeen had only ten female brewers this year, compared to 150 in the previous century.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
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November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...

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November 1753

Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
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April 1873: Medium Florence Cook materialized what was...

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April 1873

Medium Florence Cook materialized what was said to be the first full spirit ever seen in Britain.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .
Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, 22 Apr. 2010, pp. 24-6.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ian Jacob
Paulu, Burton. Television and Radio in the United Kingdom. University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
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1530: Hieronymus Fracastorius of Verona, Italy,...

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1530

Hieronymus Fracastorius of Verona, Italy, first used the word syphilis in print to name the disease, in his poem Syphilis or The French Disease.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
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Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
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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...

30 December 1657: Mystical writer Thomas Traherne was admitted...

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30 December 1657

Mystical writer Thomas Traherne was admitted as rector of the small, poor village of Credenhill in Herefordshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14-25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...

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14-25 February 1956

The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party sowed the seeds of de-Stalinization. It opened with a report from Khrushchev critical of Stalin , and closed with his revelation of some selected truths about Stalin's...

1870: Browne and Nolan publishing firm was founded...

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Browne and Nolan publishing firm was founded in Dublin by John Browne and William Nolan .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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12 March 1733: George Lyttelton published a poem entitled...

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12 March 1733

George Lyttelton published a poem entitled Advice to a Lady.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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1828: Andrew Halliday argued that because England...

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1828

Andrew Halliday argued that because England was the most civilized, industrialized and advanced country in the world, it also exhibited the highest incidence of insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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3 January 1993: The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty provided...

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3 January 1993

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty provided that the USA and Russia should each reduce their stockpile of nuclear warheads to between 3,000 and 3,500.
Byers, Michael. “Back to the Cold War?”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2000, pp. 16-17.
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Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1742: At a boarding school for girls in Covent...

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1742

At a boarding school for girls in Covent Garden, London, the curriculum included English, arithmetic, geography, drawing, and domestic science.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...

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10 October 1812

The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , was opened with a special address by Lord Byron .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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October 1869: Emigration proponent Maria Rye took seventy-five...

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October 1869

Emigration proponent Maria Rye took seventy-five orphaned British girls between the ages of four and twelve to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
Wagner, Gillian. Children of the Empire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982.
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Elizabeth Bentley

EB was a labouring-class poet of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, who provided with her poems an account of her life designed to raise patrons. Her work was sufficiently religious and submissive in...
Elizabeth Bentley Photo of an oval engraving of the young Elizabeth Bentley by a Miss Buck after T. Bassett, frontispiece of Bentley's "Genuine Poetical Compositions", 1791. She is clad in suitably plain style, wears a starched cap and neckerchief over her dress.

16 July 1985: The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act...

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16 July 1985

The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act made it an offence to excise, infibulate or mutilate female genitals or to aid or abet such procedure in the UK.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1985): 969-70
McVeigh, Tracy. “Female genital mutilation rising in Britain”. Guardian Weekly, 30 July 2010, p. 15.
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6 July 1885: Louis Pasteur first used injections to prevent...

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6 July 1885

Louis Pasteur first used injections to prevent people bitten by mad dogs from contracting rabies.
“The History of the Pasteur Institute”. Institut Pasteur: History.

1965: The Migraine Trust was set up to fund specialist...

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1965

The Migraine Trust was set up to fund specialist migraine clinics and research, and to raise awareness.
“About The Migraine Trust”. The Migraine Trust, June 2003.

November 1880: Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy:...

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November 1880

Arthur Munby published anonymously Dorothy: A Country Story with Kegan Paul .
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
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21 February 1765: Frances Brooke (as Mary Singleton) published...

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21 February 1765

Frances Brooke (as Mary Singleton) published a rebuke to two upper-class ladies for rudeness to the actress George Anne Bellamy .
Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
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26 January 1790: Mozart's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere...

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26 January 1790

Mozart 's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere in Vienna.
Solman, Joseph. Mozartiana. Walker, 1990.
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31 March 1912: On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly...

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31 March 1912

On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly protested the exclusion of women's franchise from the Home Rule bill.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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November 1912: The Women's Suffrage Bill and Women's Suffrage...

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November 1912

The Women's Suffrage Bill and Women's Suffrage Amendments to the Home Rule Bill were defeated in the House of Commons by members of the Irish Parliamentary Party .
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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