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1871-72: An epidemic of smallpox resulted in 42,000...

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1871-72

An epidemic of smallpox resulted in 42,000 deaths in England and Wales.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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6 June 1709: Drury Lane Theatre (under Christopher Rich)...

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6 June 1709

Drury Lane Theatre (under Christopher Rich ) was closed by the Lord Chamberlain for deducting too much in house charges from the full receipts.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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8 March 1952: The British Labour Party discontinued its...

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8 March 1952

The British Labour Party discontinued its endorsement of International Women's Day, because of the then close ties of the festival with the Communist Party .
Barclay, Katie. “Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!”. Women’s History Network Blog, 8 Mar. 2011.

16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...

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16 June 1846

Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church over the conservatives.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
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August 1663: The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England...

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August 1663

The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England caused renewed persecution of Quakers .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...

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April 1817

The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
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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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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1686: John Bunyan's A Book for Boys and Girls;...

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1686

John Bunyan 's A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children was published.
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children. Printed for N. P., 1686.
Demers, Patricia, and Robert Gordon Moyles, editors. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children’s Literature to 1850. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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1947: Doreen Carwithen was the first composer chosen...

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1947

Doreen Carwithen was the first composer chosen from the Royal Academy of Music for the J. Arthur Rank Apprenticeship Scheme to study film music.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
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1697: An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates...

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1697

An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates to set up signposts at confusing crossroads where travellers might otherwise take the wrong road.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14 March 1885: The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert...

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14 March 1885

The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert and Sullivan , was first performed: its Japanese setting was topical, since Japan had first opened to trade with the world two years previously.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
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About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...

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About the 1530s-1540s

The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale 's edition, 2012...

February 1970-April 1971: Black power marches in Trinidad drew thousands...

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February 1970-April 1971

Black power marches in Trinidad drew thousands of demonstrators.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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1724: Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology...

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1724

Allan Ramsay published his influential anthology of Scottish works from several centuries in the past: The Ever Green.
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.
Davis, Leith. “Crossing Borders: Orality and Print in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Song Collection”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Vancouver, BC, 25 Oct. 2003.

31 July 1923: The Liquor Act was passed, prohibiting the...

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31 July 1923

The Liquor Act was passed, prohibiting the sale of alcohol in Britain to anyone under the age of eighteen.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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January 1875: The French National Assembly passed a law...

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January 1875

The French National Assembly passed a law establishing the presidency as a permanent institution.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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26 July 1913: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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26 July 1913

The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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January 1808: Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book...

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January 1808

Leigh Hunt (who had published his first book of poems at seventeen and thus achieved an early niche as a theatre critic) began editing The Examiner, a Sunday paper which he initiated in collaboration...

31 October 1848: 4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the...

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31 October 1848

4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the Imperial government reconquered the city following what is variously called by historians the second revolution and the third rising.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
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1828: The first public baths in England opened...

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1828

The first public baths in England opened in Liverpool.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Pauline Johnson

PJ is best remembered for the poemThe Song My Paddle Sings, published in 1892, which has been memorized by generations of Canadian school children, but she also wrote short stories and journalism, and...
Pauline Johnson Black and white photograph of Pauline Johnson, shown from the waist up. She wears a necklace of bear claws and a loose shirt with leather fringes and ermine tails. Her dark hair is curled in front and hangs loose down her back.

20 September 1870: The Italian army entered Rome; on 2 October...

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20 September 1870

The Italian army entered Rome; on 2 October the army declared Rome the capital of the newly unified kingdom of Italy.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
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1847: The establishment of the Democratic Association...

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1847

The establishment of the Democratic Association for the Unification of All Countries represented an effort to set up an international revolutionary body.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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5 February 1737: The Opposition journal Common Sense; or,...

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5 February 1737

The Opposition journal Common Sense; or, The Englishman's Journal published its first number.
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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Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
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1791: Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race)...

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1791

Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race) were precluded from employment as officers in the Civil, Military or Marine services of the [East India] Company .
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
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1958: The first real up-market Chinese restaurant...

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1958

The first real up-market Chinese restaurant in London was opened, in a boom that spread Chinese food across Britain, into every Butlins holiday camp, and into towns which had previously had no restaurant as such.
Grove, Peter, and Colleen Grove. “The History of the ’Ethnic’ Restaurant in Britain”. Curry, Spice and All Things Nice: the what—where—when.