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1696: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady issued their...

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1696

Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady issued their New Version of the Psalms of David, which gradually replaced the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

March 1890: William II of Germany dismissed Bismarck...

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March 1890

William II of Germany dismissed Bismarck from the position of Chancellor.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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14 November 1940: The Luftwaffe conducted a heavy raid on ...

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14 November 1940

The Luftwaffe conducted a heavy raid on Coventry.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...

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By late 1697

John Dryden published by subscription his verse translation of Virgil 's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

3 December 1984: In the worst industrial accident in the world...

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3 December 1984

In the worst industrial accident in the world to date, at Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh in India, thousands of people died from poisonous gas leaking from a Union Carbide plant.
Guardian Weekly.
(20-26 January 2000): 4
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1858: The Female Mission to the Fallen was organized...

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1858

The Female Mission to the Fallen was organized by the Reformatory and Refuge Union .
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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2 May 1982: The Mail on Sunday newspaper began publi...

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2 May 1982

The Mail on Sunday newspaper began publication.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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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.

Laurence Alma-Tadema

LAT wrote in many genres during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. She contributed to various periodicals (including The Yellow Book) and published her own collections of stories and poems, as well...
Laurence Alma-Tadema Black and white photograph of Laurence Alma-Tadema wearing a wide-sleeved black dress with lace detailing. Her left hand is poised next to a journal, which rests on the writing desk where she is seated upon a wooden chair, while her right hand rests in her lap.

16 October 1925: The Locarno Agreements (sometimes known as...

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16 October 1925

The Locarno Agreements (sometimes known as treaties or guarantees) were signed: a series of undertakings among various European countries mutually to guarantee each other's borders.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Stevenson, David. “Casino Politics”. London Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2005, pp. 23-4.
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By June 1817: Thomas Moore published his hugely successful...

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By June 1817

Thomas Moore published his hugely successful poem Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 562-81
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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13 February 1790: The French National Assembly decreed that...

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13 February 1790

The FrenchNational Assembly decreed that French law would no longer recognise monastic vows.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.

1873: The Ladies Obstetrical College opened....

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1873

The Ladies Obstetrical College opened.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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1880: An Education Act of this year, building on...

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1880

An Education Act of this year, building on Forster 's act of 9 August 1870, made elementary education compulsory for the first time in England and Wales.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Forster, William Edward

1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...

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1970

The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre , Kierkegaard , Nietzsche , Husserl , and Merleau-Ponty .
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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4 October 1928: The Young PEN Club, designed for beginning...

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4 October 1928

The Young PEN Club , designed for beginning writers, held its inaugural meeting, chaired by John Galsworthy ; also present were E. M. Forster and the young Frances Parker (soon to be Bellerby) .
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...

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1927

Victor Gollancz established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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1706: The word condum first appeared in a poem...

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1706

The word condum first appeared in a poem called A Scots Answer to a British Vision; early variant spellings of condom included condon and condum.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Both sources suggest condoms were named after...

1910: Albert Schweitzer' The Quest of the Historical...

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1910

Albert Schweitzer ' The Quest of the Historical Jesus, first published in 1906, appeared in English translation.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1880: In Glasgow the Universalist Church appointed...

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1880

In Glasgow the Universalist Church appointed its first woman minister in Britain, Caroline Soule . US Universalists were ahead of them, having ordained Olympia Brown in 1863.
Gilley, Keith. “The ministry of women”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, p. 29.
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Early 1958 to late 1960: Mao Tse-tung carried out in China the ironically-named...

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Early 1958 to late 1960

Mao Tse-tung carried out in China the ironically-named Great Leap Forward, forcibly converting the peasants to collective agriculture and collective living and eating.
Becker, Jasper. “Business as Usual at the ’People’s Daily’”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 26-7.
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Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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6 February 1952: King George VI died and Elizabeth II assumed...

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6 February 1952

King George VI died and Elizabeth II assumed the throne.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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1910: The Edinburgh Missionary Conference began...

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1910

The Edinburgh Missionary Conference began the Ecumenical Movement .
Suggate, Alan M. “The Christian Churches in England since 1945: Ecumenism and Social Concern”. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present, edited by Sheridan Gilley and William J. Sheils, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 467-8.
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By 4 March 1882: Jane Ellen Panton's novel Jane Caldecott:...

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By 4 March 1882

Jane Ellen Panton 's novel Jane Caldecott: A Story of Cross Purposes was published with a dedication to her father .
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2836 (1882): 279
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1860: The National Charter Association was dis...

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1860

The National Charter Association was dissolved.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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May 1862: At the International Exhibition in London,...

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May 1862

At the International Exhibition in London, Alexander Parkes displayed items made from a plastic he had been developing in the 1850s, which came to be known as celluloid.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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