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1856: English metallurgist Henry Bessemer discovered...

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1856

English metallurgist Henry Bessemer discovered the Bessemer process, a quick and cheap way of making steel.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1926: The Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed...

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1926

The Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, edited by A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave , was issued by the Bibliographical Society .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Dahl, Svend. Dahl’s History of the Book. Editor Katz, William A., 3rd English ed., Scarecrow Press, 1995.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1838: The Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria was crowned...

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1838

The Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria was crowned King of Lombardy at Milan: Austria was consolidating its power in Italy.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1749: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der...

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1749

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock published Der Messias, a religious poem in three cantos.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
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7 February 2007: First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded...

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7 February 2007

First-time writer Stef Penney was awarded the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize (worth £25,000) for her novel The Tenderness of Wolves.
Costa Book Awards. http://replay.web.archive.org/20060615002836/http://www.costabookawards.com/.
“Set-in-Canada thriller takes Costa book prize”. CBC Arts and Entertainment, 8 Feb. 2007.
McCrum, Robert. “A Thriller in 10 Chapters”. The Guardian, 25 May 2008, pp. Review 6 - 8.
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August-September 1603: In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500...

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August-September 1603

In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500 people (a tenth of the population) died in London.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
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Callow, Simon. “Every man in his humour”. The Guardian, 26 Aug. 2006, p. Review 7.
Review 7

August 1975: Enid Nemy's New York Times story entitled...

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August 1975

Enid Nemy 's New York Times story entitled Women Begin to Speak Out Against Sexual Harassment at Work was syndicated across the USA, popularizing and legitimating the term coined three months before by Cornell

1977: Women's Struggle Notes ended publication...

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1977

Women's Struggle Notes ended publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1906: At the Annual General Meeting of the Society...

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1906

At the Annual General Meeting of the Society of Authors , George Bernard Shaw deplored the dragging down of literary earnings by groups possessing a non-literary income, particularly married women.
The Author. Alexander P. Watt.
(Winter 2000) cxi: 4, Shaw Supplement

1905: Two years after the invention of the first...

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1905

Two years after the invention of the first disposable safety-razor blade, the American Safety Razor Company began to produce razors and blades for Britain.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Tenner, Edward. “A Place for Hype”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 33-4.
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26 February 1876: Women and Work, a practical guide to employment...

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26 February 1876

Women and Work, a practical guide to employment for middle-class women, ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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January 1837: The East London Democratic Association was...

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January 1837

The East London Democratic Association was founded.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Margaret Mead

MM was a United States anthropologist whose works, many of them concerned with sexuality or gender and full of comparisons between the customs of primitive societies and those of the contemporary USA, reached a...
Margaret Mead Black and white head-shot of Margaret Mead. She is wearing a dark jacket and she has dark, curly, jaw-length hair.

Harriet Lee

HL , Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia shared.

1854: Scottish-born Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910),...

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1854

Scottish-born Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), who had emigrated to Adelaide in Australia with her parents at the age of thirteen, published at London her first novel, Clara Morison. Set in Adelaide, it is the...

By December 1698: George Farquhar's first play, Love and a...

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By December 1698

George Farquhar 's first play, Love and a Bottle, was opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

: Following an agreement of the British government...

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Summer 1953

Following an agreement of the British government to import German cars to the value of two million pounds over the next year, the Volkswagen (or people's car) went on sale in Britain.
“’People’s Car’ makes UK debut”. Guardian Weekly, 8 June 2007, p. 22.
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September 1887: Charles Elkin Mathews, with John Lane as...

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September 1887

Charles Elkin Mathews , with John Lane as his silent partner, founded Bodley Head publishing house in Vigo Street, Mayfair, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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25 March 1756: The World described current fashions as the...

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25 March 1756

The World described current fashions as the advances the ladies have made this winter towards complete nakedness.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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Moore, Edward, editor. The World. R. and J. Dodsley, 4 vols.
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28 April-1 May 1915: At the International Women's Peace Congress...

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28 April-1 May 1915

At the International Women's Peace Congress in The Hague, thirteen hundred women delegates from twelve countries founded the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace ; it became the Women's International League for Peace...

1933: Grantly Dick-Read published Natural Childbirth,...

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1933

Grantly Dick-Read published Natural Childbirth, the first of his highly popular and influential titles advocating the revelation of childbirth without fear.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

January 1790: The Cercle Social, a political social club...

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January 1790

The Cercle Social , a political social club which included women, was founded in Paris.
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
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Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
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11 June 1895: The UK annexed Tongaland....

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11 June 1895

The UK annexed Tongaland.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Probably 14 March 1646: Sir Thomas Browne published his Pseudodoxia...

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Probably 14 March 1646

Sir Thomas Browne published his Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a giant compendium of popular misconceptions and antique thinking,
Hitchings, Henry. “Samuel Johnson and Sir Thomas Browne”. New Rambler, 2004–2005, pp. 46-56.
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which, paradoxically, perpetuated many of the superstitions it contradicted.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The date is given on what is probably...

2 August 1870: The Tower Subway, forerunner of the Underground...

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2 August 1870

The Tower Subway, forerunner of the Underground system, opened its tunnel under the River Thames in London.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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