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1986: Aileen La Tourette published through Virago...

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1986

Aileen La Tourette published through Virago Press the post-apocalyptic novel Cry Wolf (whose title has also been used by others).
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1678: Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel...

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1678

Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel (again a translation from French) was another of the earliest works in English to employ the term novel in its title.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
311
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

29 March 2014: Same-sex marriage became legal in Britain....

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29 March 2014

Same-sex marriage became legal in Britain. The following month two women became the first English gay couple to marry in a church: at Bournemouth in Dorset.
“News in brief”. Guardian Weekly, 18 Apr. 2014, p. 17.

Between 900 and 1000: King Eadgar founded eight nunneries and ordered...

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Between 900 and 1000

King Eadgar founded eight nunneries and ordered a translation of the Benedictine Rule into English.
Gardiner, Dorothy Kempe. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1929.
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Elizabeth Major

EM 's one published collection, 1656, contains religious prose and verse. Of these the verse is much the more interesting.

1884: The Voluntary Schools Association was founded...

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1884

The Voluntary Schools Association was founded by Roman Catholics to lobby for changes to the 1870 Education Act .
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
174

24 May 1855: On this date, The London Times contained...

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24 May 1855

On this date, The London Times contained 2,575 advertisements within its sixteen pages.
Fenstermaker, John J. “Thomas Carlyle, Popular Advertising, and the Commerical Spirit in Victorian England”. Studies in Popular Culture, Vol.
15
, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-36.
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15 November 1910: Parliament reconvened and the Government...

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15 November 1910

Parliament reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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27 May 1941: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following...

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27 May 1941

The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following a chase by British ships.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
45
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
388
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
235-6

1918: The English Electric Company was formed....

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1918

The English Electric Company was formed.
Electricity Council. Electricity Supply in Great Britain: A Chronology. Electricity Council, 1973.
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1984: The Women's Rugby Football Union was est...

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1984

The Women's Rugby Football Union was established.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1900: Mark Aurel Stein made the first of two expeditions...

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1900

Mark Aurel Stein made the first of two expeditions to Central Asia, which resulted in his discovery of ancient paper documents near the ancient city of Dunhuang in Chinese Turkestan.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
124, 2
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
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14 June 1911: The future Edward VIII was invested as Prince...

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14 June 1911

The future Edward VIII was invested as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle in Wales: the first such ceremony to be held in the Principality itself in modern times.
Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson, 1970.
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By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...

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By 29 August 1846

Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope , who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
983 (1846): 885-6
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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

29 November 2010: Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina...

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29 November 2010

Russian poet and translator Bella Akhmadulina died at the age of seventy-three.
“Bella Akhmadulina”. Edmonton Journal, 2 Jan. 2011, p. E7.

December 2005: YouTube was officially launched (though it...

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December 2005

YouTube was officially launched (though it is often reckoned to have begun on 14 February 2005, when it registered its internet domain name) as a service for uploading and viewing videos. The company was bought...

September 1878-September 1880: The Ameer (Emir) of Afghanistan rejected...

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September 1878-September 1880

The Ameer (Emir) of Afghanistan rejected British diplomatic overtures after signing a treaty with Russia, and war followed; this was part of a long-running boundary dispute with Russia.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 767-68
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
212
French, David. “It was all about the Russians”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 7, 5 May 2012, pp. 28-9.
28-9

26 February 1731: Elizabeth Rayner, having had her pamphlet...

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26 February 1731

Elizabeth Rayner , having had her pamphlet shop at Charing Cross raided for libels, challenged the raiders in a newspaper advertisement to prove their legal authority, or she would take legal redress.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
110-11

1802: Numbers of women workers in spinning in the...

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1802

Numbers of women workers in spinning in the West Country dropped to only eighteen percent of their number in 1780.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
75

1837: English landscape painter John Constable...

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1837

English landscape painter John Constable died.
Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
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Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
102

21 April 1896: Sigmund Freud read The Aetiology of Hysteria...

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21 April 1896

Sigmund Freud read The Aetiology of Hysteria before the Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
3, 9, 251

May Day 1930: A women's march sponsored by the National...

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May Day 1930

A women's march sponsored by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement was held in conjunction with the National Hunger March; they culminated in a mass rally in Hyde Park, London, on this date.
Bruley, Sue. “A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 40-53.
42, 43

10 May 1892: Frederic Eugene Ives first exhibited his...

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10 May 1892

Frederic Eugene Ives first exhibited his patented method for producing colour prints (three-colour printing with half-tone cuts) at the Royal Institution, London.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
118
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
955

February 1918: Chief Commander Margaret Damer Dawson and...

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February 1918

Chief Commander Margaret Damer Dawson and Sub-Commandant Mary Allen of the Women's Police Service were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
128, 129

By March 1774: Warren Hastings became the first English...

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By March 1774

Warren Hastings became the first English Governor-General of India.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
318
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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