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21 July-10 August 1944: After fierce fighting, US Marines captured...

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21 July-10 August 1944

After fierce fighting, US Marines captured Guam.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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26 January 1790: Mozart's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere...

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26 January 1790

Mozart 's opera Così Fan Tutte had its premiere in Vienna.
Solman, Joseph. Mozartiana. Walker, 1990.
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: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the...

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1678-06-25

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to be awarded an academic degree (although Dorotea Bocchi had been appointed to an academic chair almost three hundred years before this).
Stevenson, Angus, and Christine A. Lindberg, editors. “Cornaro Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia”. New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2015.
Maschietto, Francesco Ludovico. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684). Translator Vairo, Jan, Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2007.
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October 1972: The Scottish Women's Temperance News ended...

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October 1972

The Scottish Women's Temperance News ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1662: The Printing or Licensing Act restored the...

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1662

The Printing or Licensing Act restored the principles of government censorship which had been current before the Civil War: it limited the number of printers and required them to put their names on their works...

December 1847: Frederick Douglass launched his anti-slavery...

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December 1847

Frederick Douglass launched his anti-slavery periodical, North Star, in Rochester, New York, substantially aided by British abolitionist women.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
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1 September 1925: The Charleston dance appeared in England...

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1 September 1925

The Charleston dance appeared in England.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

After 1816: A court ruled against a widowed father (a...

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After 1816

A court ruled against a widowed father (a Unitarian minister) in his suit to get his daughters back from his wife's family, who had brought them up as Baptists.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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13 February 1788-April 1795: Warren Hastings was impeached for corruption...

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13 February 1788-April 1795

Warren Hastings was impeached for corruption and profiteering in India. His trial continued intermittently in London, occupying 145 days. It was keenly attended by a fashionable audiences and garnered much media attention.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
Young, Brian. “A Cheat, a Sharper and a Swindler”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 34-5.
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From December 1938: British actress Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett...

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From December 1938

British actress Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone With the Wind, based on the bestselling (and Pulitzer-Prize-winning) novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell , about the end of...

January 1704: Volume one of Antoine Galland's Les mille...

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January 1704

Volume one of Antoine Galland 's Les mille et une nuit, was published at Paris; the first English version appeared in 1706, as Arabian Nights Entertainments: later usually Arabian Nights.
Mack, Robert L., editor. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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1909: Liberal government introduced a child allowance...

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1909

Liberal government introduced a child allowance (£10 for each child) for income tax payers with children under 16.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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1875: Work began on an English Channel tunnel....

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1875

Work began on an English Channel tunnel.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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September 1930: Shakespeare's Othello opened at the Savoy...

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September 1930

Shakespeare's Othello opened at the Savoy Theatre starring Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft : it shocked some in the audience on racist grounds.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...

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19 February 1640

LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton 's biography of him.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

27 March 1958: The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry was the...

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27 March 1958

The Belgrade Theatre in Coventry was the first theatre built in Britain after the war.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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7 August 1925: An Act of Parliament established the National...

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7 August 1925

An Act of Parliament established the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
“The First Reader’s Ticket”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

27 April 1992: Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to...

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27 April 1992

Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House of Commons ; media reports made much of the fact that she had once worked in the Tiller Girls dancing troupe.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1948: George Westover invented the Rotofoto, the...

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1948

George Westover invented the Rotofoto, the first British filmsetting machine to be placed on the market.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1978: The National Women's Liberation Movement...

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1978

The National Women's Liberation Movement Conference held at Birmingham saw much polarising disagreement; it was the last such event in Britain to be national.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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11 September 1905: The Times Book Club opened at 93 New Bond...

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11 September 1905

The Times Book Club opened at 93 New Bond Street, London, and quickly ran afoul of the Net Book Agreement.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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2 February 1897: Clara Butt Martin, 1874-1923, became the...

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2 February 1897

Clara Butt Martin , 1874-1923, became the first woman in the British Empire to be called to the Bar, that is to become a lawyer.
The Canadian Encyclopedia Online. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/.
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1881: The spiritualist newspaper Light was founded;...

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1881

The spiritualist newspaper Light was founded; it lasted more than a century.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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3 March 1660: Milton published The Readie and Easie Way...

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3 March 1660

Milton published The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, a pamphlet designed to sway public opinion against the restoration either of the monarchy or of rule by any single individual.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The...

1930: In the largest book sale in history so far,...

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1930

In the largest book sale in history so far, the Seventy-first Congress of the United States paid 1.5 million dollars for the Volbehr collection of 3,000 volumes of incunabula.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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