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October 1894: The University of Edinburgh opened medical...

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October 1894

The University of Edinburgh opened medical degrees to women.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
199

1908: Parliament passed the Old Age Pensions A...

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1908

Parliament passed the Old Age Pensions Act.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
103-4

2 May 1670: Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson,...

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2 May 1670

Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson, or Hudson's, Bay Company , giving it trading rights in Rupert's Land.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
618
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
307

1891: Elinor Huddart anonymously published her...

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1891

Elinor Huddart anonymously published her semi-autobiographical novel Leslie, about a woman's hatred for her father and love for her mother, whose death then devastates her.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1836: A temperance meeting in Taunton, Somerset,...

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1836

A temperance meeting in Taunton, Somerset, witnessed the outbreak of a riot, as moderationists violently disrupted a speech by teetotaller James Tearle .
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1992: Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and...

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1992

Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man argued that the process of national and international change and struggle called history had ended with the acceptance of technology, capitalism, and Western liberal...

1845: Elias Howe patented the first sewing machine...

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1845

Elias Howe patented the first sewing machine invented in England (following inventions in France); some sources claim his wife Elizabeth was the inventor.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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26 January 2009: Cambridge University announced that Anne...

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26 January 2009

Cambridge University announced that Anne Jarvis , former Sub-Librarian, had been appointed its first woman University Librarian .
“Cambridge appoints first female University Librarian”. Cambridge University. News and Events, 26 Jan. 2009.

1957: Sculptor Jacob Epstein completed the sculpture...

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1957

Sculptor Jacob Epstein completed the sculpture Christ in Majesty for Llandaff Cathedral.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
412

Sally Purcell

SP was a twentieth-century poet of distinction (whose scholarly bent showed itself in an astonishing range of esoteric allusion) and a translator (mostly of poetry) from a virtuoso range of languages. She also edited books...

28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...

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28 August 1833

An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company 's monopoly of the China trade.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 820
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
195

1942: The British Council of Churches was created,...

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1942

The British Council of Churches was created, uniting many of the British Christian religions in their aims for missionary work and social reform.
Suggate, Alan M. “The Christian Churches in England since 1945: Ecumenism and Social Concern”. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present, edited by Sheridan Gilley and William J. Sheils, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 467-8.
469

1786: Valentin Haüy published at Paris his Essai...

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1786

Valentin Haüy published at Paris his Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles, the first book published for the blind.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
“Reading by Touch”. Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB): Publications Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

May 1862: The last issue of the Rambler appeared; the...

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May 1862

The last issue of the Rambler appeared; the publishers then discarded this name and format for a new quarterly: The Home and Foreign 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.
2: 739-40, 784

1907: Harley Granville-Barker's play Waste, designed...

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1907

Harley Granville-Barker 's play Waste, designed to have been the centre-piece of his ambitious new season at the Savoy Theatre , was banned by the lord chamberlain largely because a death from illegal abortion...

1 February 1692: The London Mercury (by no means the only...

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1 February 1692

The London Mercury (by no means the only journal to use this title at different times) began publication, with an appeal to John Dunton 's Athenian Mercury and to the fair Sex, of what Degree...

1895: A novel by Mary Lucy Pendered, A Pastoral...

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1895

A novel by Mary Lucy Pendered , A Pastoral Played Out, was released from Heinemann .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1 December 1699: John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem...

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1 December 1699

John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem in praise of the good life; among many other poems sharing this title, or that of The Wish, Pomfret's became a long-lived favourite.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
58, 60, 67, 79, 86-7

1 February 1949: The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) was formed...

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1 February 1949

The Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC ) was formed from the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS).
Goldman, Nancy Loring, and Richard Stites. “Great Britain and the World Wars”. Female Soldiers-Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Nancy Loring Goldman, Greenwood, 1982, pp. 21-46.
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“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
“A Brief History of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Women’s Royal Army Corps”. WRAC Association.

Autumn 1904 to summer 1907: Under the management of playwright and director...

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Autumn 1904 to summer 1907

Under the management of playwright and director Harley Granville-Barker and business manager J. E. Vedrenne , the Court Theatre became the first permanent home of the new drama.
McDonald, Jan. The ’New Drama’ 1900-1914. Grove Press, 1986.
2, 11-16
Tweedsmuir, Susan. A Winter Bouquet. G. Duckworth, 1954.
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February 1798: In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel...

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February 1798

In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel St George, and his estate agent were murdered at the agent's house.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1798): 161

14-17 July 1791: The Priestley riots in Birmingham, beginning...

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14-17 July 1791

The Priestley riots in Birmingham, beginning with offence taken over a Bastille Day dinner, caused much destruction and disturbance.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
175-6

30 June 1688: A letter was signed by national leaders inviting...

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30 June 1688

A letter was signed by national leaders inviting William of Orange to assume the throne of England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 663

January 1930: International Women's News began publica...

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January 1930

International Women's News began publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
51
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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1925: The Plague of His Own Heart, a novel by Josephine...

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1925

The Plague of His Own Heart, a novel by Josephine Ward , was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.