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4 May 1926: The South African parliament passed the Colour...

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4 May 1926

The South African parliament passed the Colour Bar bill, restricting certain occupations to white persons only.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 718

About 1855: Charles Frederick Worth of the UK introduced...

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About 1855

Charles Frederick Worth of the UK introduced and popularized his cage crinoline in Paris.
Carter, Ernestine. Magic Names of Fashion. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
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Diana de Marly (78) gives a good argument that Worth's association with the crinoline's invention is false or at least exaggerated.

22 February 1788: Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher, was born...

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22 February 1788

Arthur Schopenhauer , philosopher, was born in Danzig (then held by Prussia, now Gdansk in Poland).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1949: At British lending libraries, more than twelve...

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1949

At British lending libraries, more than twelve million readers borrowed nearly 300 million books, most of them classified as Fiction.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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17 September 1793: In France the Law of Suspects authorized...

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17 September 1793

In France the Law of Suspects authorized the arrest of anyone suspected to be an enemy of the French Republic, by association or conduct.
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
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1929: The painter Tamara de Lempicka painted a...

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1929

The painter Tamara de Lempicka painted a self-portrait at the wheel of a green Bugatti car, which is widely felt to be an important icon of the Jazz Age.
Cumming, Laura. “Tubular belles”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Apr. 2000, p. 18.
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1868: Parliament required all British railways...

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1868

Parliament required all British railways to provide at least one smoking vehicle in every train consisting of more than one vehicle of each class.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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February 1798: In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel...

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February 1798

In County Cork in Ireland, a landowner, Colonel St George, and his estate agent were murdered at the agent's house.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1798): 161

1885: Henry Irving's famous production of Faust...

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1885

Henry Irving 's famous production of Faust opened at the Lyceum theatre at a cost of nearly £12,000.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Davis, Tracy C. “The Sociable Playwright and Representative Citizen”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 15-34.
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23 June 2016: By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the...

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23 June 2016

By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the British electorate voted for Brexit: that is, to take Britain out of the European Union .
“EU referendum: full results and analysis”. theguardian.com, 24 June 2016.

1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...

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1830

Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans 's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.
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.
Landry, Donna. “Coleridge’s Boots and Sophie Dixon’s Books: Problems in Construing Literary Evidence for a New Cultural History”. British Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 15 Mar. 2001.

April 1847: Adams and Company of London patented the...

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April 1847

Adams and Company of London patented the first double decker bus.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Barker, Theodore Cardwell, and Michael Robbins. A History of London Transport: Passenger Travel and the Development of the Metropolis. Rev., Allen and Unwin, 1975, 2 vol.
I: 59-60

1845: The Royal College of Chemistry was estab...

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1845

The Royal College of Chemistry was established.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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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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Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
III: 604

1896: Another domestic advice book by Jane Ellen...

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1896

Another domestic advice book by Jane Ellen Panton , Suburban Residences and How to Circumvent Them, was published.
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.

1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla...

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1886

Elizabeth Cady Stanton approached Priscilla Bright McLaren and Anna Maria Priestman to help organise a British delegation to an international conference of suffragists in Washington.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
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14 September 1850: A new convent for the Anglican Sisterhood...

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14 September 1850

A new convent for the AnglicanSisterhood of the Holy Cross began construction in Osnaburgh Street in London.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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29 March 1867: The British North America Act united Upper...

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29 March 1867

The British North America Act united Upper Canada (as Ontario), Lower Canada (as Quebec), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into the Dominion of Canada.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 473
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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20 August 1938: A journalist in a British newspaper wrote:...

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20 August 1938

A journalist in a British newspaper wrote: The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring into this country is becoming an outrage.
“The Refugee Council advertisement”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, p. 13.
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7 April 1936: The South African Parliament passed the Native...

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7 April 1936

The South African Parliament passed the Native Representation Bill, which made provision for blacks to elect three Europeans to represent them in Parliament.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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1866: American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published...

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1866

American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published St Elmo, one of the most succesful novels of the nineteenth century.
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.

Elizabeth Cellier

The small but significant literary output of seventeenth-century midwife EC amounts to three pamphlets on topical religious, medical, and gender issues, notably including the attempt to establish midwifery as a profession parallel to the male...

Some time between 1642 and 1648: The ballad The Valiant Commander, with his...

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Some time between 1642 and 1648

The ballad The Valiant Commander, with his Resolute Lady related the story of a royalist woman who insisted on fighting though her husband urged her to flee.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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By March 1913: Leonard Woolf published the first of his...

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By March 1913

Leonard Woolf published the first of his two novels, The Village in the Jungle, which is set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and relates events so far as possible from the viewpoint of view...

André Gide

AG was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth...

1914: When a village school run by socialist Annie...

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1914

When a village school run by socialist Annie Higden and her husband at Burston in Norfolk was closed by the authorities, their supporters organised a strike.
Younge, Gary. “Party of competing ambitions”. Guardian Weekly, 2–8 Mar. 2000, p. 13.
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