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18 December 1795: The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable...

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18 December 1795

The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable Practices Bill and Seditious Meetings Bill) were passed by parliament , to remain in force for extended periods.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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1872: Gustave Doré published illustrations to William...

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1872

Gustave Doré published illustrations to William Blanchard Jerrold 's London: A Pilgrimage, which vividly catch the two extremes of wealth and poverty, splendour and misery.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
285, 508
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Doré

July 1899: The Female Missionary Intelligencer ceased...

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July 1899

The Female Missionary Intelligencer ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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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.

27 April 1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become...

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27 April 1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become Tanzania.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
261
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
696, 698

Molly Keane

MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...

13 May 1886: The National Association for the Repeal of...

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13 May 1886

The National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts held its last meeting. It considered its work completed following the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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1840: French physiologist and phrenologist Fleury...

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1840

French physiologist and phrenologist Fleury Imbert published a book on diseases in women; it initiated medical theories about eating disorders.
Hof, Sonja van ’t. Anorexia Nervosa: The Historical and Cultural Specificity: Fallacious Theories and Tenacious "Facts". Swets and Zeitlinger, 1994.
51-2, 54

28 November 1905: The Sinn Féin League was founded by Arthur...

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28 November 1905

The Sinn Féin League was founded by Arthur Griffith , later President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, at a meeting in Dublin.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
223
Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Davis, Richard. “Arthur Griffith, 1872-1922: Architect of Modern Ireland”. History Today, Vol.
29
, No. 3, 1979, pp. 139-46.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
456-7, 611

1904: The London Symphony was established by departing...

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1904

The London Symphony was established by departing members of Henry Wood 's Queen's Hall Orchestra after Wood revoked the deputy system.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
8: 120
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
211, 212, 214

29 June 1871: The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour...

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29 June 1871

The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour unions but denied workers the right to picket.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
293
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Sara Coleridge

Living in the shadow of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge , SC nevertheless became recognized in her own right as a talented writer during the first half of the nineteenth century. She began with translations...
Sara Coleridge Black and white portrait of Sara Coleridge from "A Poet's Children, Hartley and Sara Coleridge" by Eleanor Ashworth Towle, 1912. She sits outdoors, in three-quarter profile facing the viewer, with hands folded, wearing a dark dress and a white cap with streamers that hang down with long collar-points and a few locks of her dark hair.

13 December 1918: The American ship George Washington, with...

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13 December 1918

The American ship George Washington, with President Woodrow Wilson aboard, laid anchor at Brest. Wilson and his entourage then took the first train to Paris for the peace conference.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
15-16, 154

1613-14: John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi...

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1613-14

John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi was performed on stage; it was unpublished until 1623.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
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June 1770: Russia (under Catherine the Great) demonstrated...

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June 1770

Russia (under Catherine the Great ) demonstrated its new power by crushing Turkey in a naval victory.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63.
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1759: Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm...

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1759

Adam Smith published with the Scottish firm of Millar, Kincaid and BellThe Theory of Moral Sentiments.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Amy Levy

AL was a precocious writer who died (in 1889) so young that all her work might in other circumstances be classed as juvenilia. She is a remarkable poet, melancholy but forceful and individual. Some of...
Amy Levy Black and white photograph of Amy Levy, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark dress with a light lacy collar, and her dark hair is pulled back.

1853: The first International Congress of Statistics...

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1853

The first International Congress of Statistics in Brussels tried to define markers in use in compiling statistics.
Daston, Lorraine. “Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it”. London Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2000, pp. 35-6.
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1785: Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade,...

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1785

Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de Sade , composed in manuscript Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome, ou l'école du libertinage.
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.

Sir Thomas Malory

1917: Karen Horney presented a paper to the Artzliche...

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1917

Karen Horney presented a paper to the Artzliche Gesellishaft fur Sexualwissenschaft (Medical Society for Sexuality) called The Technique of Psychoanalytic Therapy.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 149

21 June 1712: Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that...

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21 June 1712

Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that a man of refined taste would take more pleasure from looking at a landscape than from owning the land.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
411 (1712): 538
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
414 (1712): 552

31 October 1888: John Boyd Dunlop, of Belfast, patented the...

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31 October 1888

John Boyd Dunlop , of Belfast, patented the successful reinvention of the air-filled pneumatic tyre; initially meant for bicycles, it was quickly adopted by the emerging motor-car industry.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 772
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
133

July 1840: The National Charter Association was fou...

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July 1840

The National Charter Association was founded.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
97
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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August 1969: Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland:...

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August 1969

Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland: in Derry nationalist protestors attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary with bricks and petrol bombs, driving them out of the city's Catholic area of Bogside; in Belfast hundreds of families...

1671: The Game Act raised the property qualification...

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1671

The Game Act raised the property qualification for hunting and shooting game to ownership of a park, or an income of about £100 a year.
Landry, Donna. Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831. Palgrave, 2001.
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