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29 November 1967: The UK relinquished rule over the East Aden...

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29 November 1967

The UK relinquished rule over the East Aden Protectorates; the People's Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed the next day.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
263

1676: A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea,...

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1676

A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea, near London, put on a production of Beauties Triumph, a masque by Thomas Duffett with music by John Banister .
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
137
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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1906: Night shift work for women was internationally...

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1906

Night shift work for women was internationally forbidden.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
415

By 17 December 1744: Charles Fleetwood sold out at Drury Lane...

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By 17 December 1744

Charles Fleetwood sold out at Drury Lane Theatre and James Lacy was installed as manager.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 1115, 1130-2

1997: The actor John Gielgud, well into his nineties,...

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1997

The actor John Gielgud , well into his nineties, appeared in three films this year.
“Sir John Gielgud: Master of the Bard onstage - and barbs off it”. National Post, 23 May 2000, p. A16.
(23 May 2000): A16

1877: By this date, female spiritualist healer...

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1877

By this date, female spiritualist healer Chandos Leigh Hunt was amazingly popular.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
130-2, 137

1935: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...

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1935

Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
371-2

1886: Charlotte Mason, founder of the Parents Educational...

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1886

Charlotte Mason , founder of the Parents Educational National Union , published her influential Home Education: A Course of Lectures to Ladies with Kegan Paul .
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Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
108, 157

1887: Agnes Stuart Mabon of Jedburgh published...

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1887

Agnes Stuart Mabon of Jedburgh published in Paisley her Homely Rhymes From the Banks of the Jed.
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.
Boos, Florence S. “Cauld Engle-Cheek: Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Scotland”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
33
, No. 1, 1995, pp. 53-73.
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6 April 1941: Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. Yugoslavia...

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6 April 1941

Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece. Yugoslavia surrendered on 17 April, and Athens fell on 27 April.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
46, 58
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
144-5, 155-8

31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...

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31 March 1832

William Tait published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-6
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-7

1860: A puerperal fever epidemic erupted in London;...

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1860

A puerperal fever epidemic erupted in London; it recurred in 1861.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Christmas Day 1657: John Evelyn was at morning Communion service...

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Christmas Day 1657

John Evelyn was at morning Communion service in a private chapel in London's Covent Garden area, when the whole congregation was rounded up by Puritan soldiers angry at such Christmas observance.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
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Anna Maria van Schurman

AMS , living in seventeenth-century Utrecht, became not only a living proof of women's talents and capacity for education, as equal to those of men, but also a public advocate for opportunities for women...
Anna Maria van Schurman Photograph of a painting of Anna Maria van Schurman by Jan Lievens. She is seated at a desk with an inkwell and quill on it, and the book she holds appears to have blank pages: so she is shown as a writer. She is wearing a large, dark, fur-trimmed cloak over a white chemise with a low V neck; her dark hair is partly pulled back in a bun encircled with a strand of pearls, with the rest of her hair falling down around her shoulders. National Gallery.

12 October 1915: Edith Cavell, the now famous English Red...

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12 October 1915

Edith Cavell , the now famous English Red Cross nurse, was executed by firing squad.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
404-5
Sanders, Michael, and Philip M. Taylor. British Propaganda during the First World War, 1914-18. Macmillan, 1982.
145, 203
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
351

July 1865: A general election was held in Britain; campaigning...

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July 1865

A general election was held in Britain; campaigning was rendered eventful by distress and unrest in industrial areas, and controversy over the prospect of a new Reform Bill.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
280-1

1836-1837: Forty-four new rail companies were established...

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1836-1837

Forty-four new rail companies were established in the UK.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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30 October 1884: Indian coolies (that is labourers) at San...

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30 October 1884

Indian coolies (that is labourers) at San Fernando, Trinidad, were attacked during a forbidden religious procession.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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Frances O'Neill

FON was an Irish poet of the later eighteenth and very early nineteenth century of whom almost nothing is known. She seems to have written both for fun and for much-needed money, and used a...

20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...

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20 June 2006

The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
“BBC Calls Time on Top of the Pops”. BBC News: Entertainment, 20 June 2006.

Dorothea Du Bois

DDB 's traumatic family romance made her a writer with an obsession. Her father's guilt and her mother's victimhood recur throughout her works: poems, plays, novel, legal statement—everything but her edited anthology. But she is...
Dorothea Du Bois Title-page of vol.1 Dorothea Du Bois's novel "Theodora",. 1770.

27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...

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27 May 1682

Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II , arrived in England.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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22 June 1948: Passengers disembarked from the steamship...

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22 June 1948

Passengers disembarked from the steamship Empire Windrush at Tilbury in Essex: four hundred and ninety young men from the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, most of them until recently servicemen with the RAF .
Phillips, Mark. “Windrush—the Passengers”. BBC History, 10 Mar. 2011.

Catherine Crowe

Between 1838 and 1859, Catherine Crowe produced five novels, two plays, a number of short stories (including ghost stories), a translation and several children's tales.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
She was a pioneer of domestic realism who combined...

13 September 1759: A British party under James Wolfe climbed...

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13 September 1759

A British party under James Wolfe climbed the Heights of Abraham at Quebec and beat the French in battle there.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Wharncliffe, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, first Baron, Richard Bentley, 1836, 3 vols.
3: 191
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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