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1853: The first public aquarium was stocked at...

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1853

The first public aquarium was stocked at the Royal Zoological Gardens , Regent's Park.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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30 December 1880: Rejecting British rule, three Boer leaders...

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30 December 1880

Rejecting British rule, three Boer leaders proclaimed the independence of the Transvaal (South Africa).
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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26 June 1948: The Berlin airlift began; by its end on 4...

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26 June 1948

The Berlin airlift began; by its end on 4 May 1949, over 1 million tonnes of aid were delivered to Soviet-blockaded West Berlin by British and American planes.
Ramsden, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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25 March 1586: Margaret Clitherow, a Catholic woman of York,...

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25 March 1586

Margaret Clitherow , a Catholic woman of York, was punished with the death penalty for harbouring priests; she was pressed to death.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
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1734-5: William Hogarth's second print series, A...

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1734-5

William Hogarth 's second print series, A Rake's Progress, depicted the downward spiral of a young man.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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May 1945: In what has become known as the Nuremberg...

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May 1945

In what has become known as the Nuremberg trials, leaders from the Allied countries (particularly the Big Four: Churchill , De Gaulle , Stalin , and Truman , who had succeeded to Roosevelt the...

May 1850: The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society...

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May 1850

The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society fiercely debated the use of the speculum.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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3 September 1888: The British East Africa Company received...

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3 September 1888

The British East Africa Company received a charter to operate in Kenya and Uganda.
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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1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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14 April 1702: A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably...

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14 April 1702

A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably by Charles Gildon , was anonymously published.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
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Staring B. Wells doubted this attribution, though it continues to be generally made.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
xii n5

1764: A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling...

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1764

A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling themselves the Macaroni Club embarked on a campaign to promote Continental styles of cooking and dressing.
Nigro, Jeffrey A. “Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 50-62.
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1 August 1915: Robert Frost, newly returned from England...

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1 August 1915

Robert Frost , newly returned from England to the USA, had his poem The Road Not Taken published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 August 2008

Sojourner Truth

ST , a charismatic religious and political leader (Christian revivalist, abolitionist, and feminist) in the northern states of the USA in the mid-nineteenth century, dictated her life story, a spiritual autobiography or slave narrative, to...
Sojourner Truth Black and white photo of Sojourner Truth, wearing wire spectacles, a white cap, long, dark, long-sleeved dress, and a white shawl. She sits beside a small table with a vase of flowers on it, holding a half-done piece of knitting. She regularly used small, carte-de-visite photos to publicize her cause, under the slogan: “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.”

Anne, Lady Southwell

ALS , who lived in the later-sixteenth and earlier-seventeenth centuries in England and in Protestant, colonial Ireland, left a commonplace-book containing a collection of her own remarkable poems as well as a few letters...

By 6 July 1957: The Tory government repealed Labour's Rent...

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By 6 July 1957

The Tory government repealed Labour's Rent Control Act, 1954, and passed a new Act which decontrolled the rents of 600,000 houses in London alone.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(6 July 1957): 7; (28 October 1957): 14; (10 December 1957): 11

January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...

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January 1951

The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting reported that the propaganda power
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.

Early May 1936: The Italo-Abyssinian War ended with Mussolini's...

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Early May 1936

The Italo-Abyssinian War ended with Mussolini 's proclamation of Italy's annexation of Abyssinia (today called Ethiopia).
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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The Penguin Atlas of the World. Viking, 1987.
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Diametrically opposed views of the conflict were voiced by British writers Kathleen E. Innes and...

24 November 1859: Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species...

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24 November 1859

Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; or, The Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Gallant, Roy A. Charles Darwin: The Making of a Scientist. Doubleday, 1972.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
24 November 2009
Shapin, Steven. “The Darwin Show”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 1, 7 Jan. 2010, pp. 3-9.
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15 March 1866: Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state...

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15 March 1866

Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state regulation of prostitutes with the introduction in Parliament of An Act for the Better Prevention of Contagious Diseases at certain Naval and Military Stations.
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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15 February 1751: Thomas Gray published his Elegy Written in...

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15 February 1751

Thomas Gray published his Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard, to forestall unauthorized publication.
Gray, Thomas, and William, poet Collins. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Oxford University Press, 1977.
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1949: A Royal Commission on the Press that had...

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1949

A Royal Commission on the Press that had been established in 1947 (the first of three between that year and 1974) called for the setting up of a self-regulating body: the General Council of the Press

1678: An anonymous, blasphemous pamphlet, the Traité...

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1678

An anonymous, blasphemous pamphlet, the Traité des trois imposteurs, got into print after first circulating in manuscript.
Jullian, Philippe. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
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2 April 1996: A new form of birth control for men involving...

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2 April 1996

A new form of birth control for men involving an injection that inhibited sperm production for a limited period of time was announced.
“New Male Contraceptive Found 99 Percent Effective”. CNN.com.

December 1638: The Glasgow Assembly, a newly formed, radical...

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December 1638

The Glasgow Assembly , a newly formed, radical body representing the Scottish Kirk (some weeks after a first meeting in the cathedral at Glasgow) formally condemned Charles I 's Scottish Prayer Book.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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21 March 1556: Thomas Cranmer was burned alive for heresy...

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21 March 1556

Thomas Cranmer was burned alive for heresy at Oxford, after withdrawing the recantation he had formerly made under threat of such a death: this was one of the most famous Protestant martyrdoms under Mary Tudor .
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.