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20 October 1894: A British protectorate was announced as established...

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20 October 1894

A British protectorate was announced as established over Borgu (now known as Benin, Nigeria).
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 589

Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay

15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...

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15 September 1940

This date later became unofficially known as Battle of Britain day: a massive Luftwaffe raid intended for the final defeat of the RAF was successfully countered with huge losses of German planes.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
41
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
101
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
387
Figes, Eva. Little Eden. Faber and Faber, 1978.
25

May 1762: William Falconer published his poem The ...

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May 1762

William Falconer published his poem The Shipwreck.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
13 (1762): 440
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.

4 November 1790: Members of the London Revolution Society...

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4 November 1790

Members of the London Revolution Society and of the local Jacobin Society attended a joint festival at Nantes in Brittany, commemorating English and French revolutionary dates (1688 and 1788).
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
127

Mary Fage

MF shared her passion for anagrams with Lady Eleanor Douglas and many others in the earlier seventeenth century. She was unique in publishing a book of verse incorporating anagrams and acrostics on the names of...

Early 1862: Sculptor Harriet Hosmer was working in Rome...

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Early 1862

Sculptor Harriet Hosmer was working in Rome on a commission for patron of the arts Marian Alford , entitled Fountain of the Siren.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
123

9 March 1873: Charles Knight, publisher, died at Addlestone,...

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9 March 1873

Charles Knight , publisher, died at Addlestone, Surrey.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Margaret Roberts

MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

Anne Hart Gilbert

AHG , a woman of colour, is remarkable not only for the leadership role she took in her Caribbean community during the early nineteenth century, but also for her writings. These (unpublished during her lifetime)...

1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...

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1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
166
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
90
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.
Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.

July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...

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July 1773

The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University 's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
271-2

1478: The medieval institution of the Inquisition...

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1478

The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon .
Indices of Banned Books. http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/exhibits/inquisition/text/banned.html.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

11 February 1757: Again a national fast day was held in Britain...

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11 February 1757

Again a national fast day was held in Britain (about a year after an earlier occasion of the same kind), to pray for the success of British forces in the Seven Years War.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
1: 227

1905: Physician Clifford Allbutt expanded upon...

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1905

Physician Clifford Allbutt expanded upon Charles Fere 's observations, drawing new attention to links between anorexia nervosa, hyperactivity, and selflessness.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
142, 317

1810: James Sheridan Knowles's first play, Leo;...

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1810

James Sheridan Knowles 's first play, Leo; or the Gypsy, was performed in Waterford, Ireland.
Meeks, Leslie Howard. Sheridan Knowles and the Theatre of His Time. Principia Press, 1933.
131-2

1887: Elizabeth A. Sharp published, as Mrs William...

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1887

Elizabeth A. Sharp published, as Mrs William Sharp, Women's Voices: An Anthology of the Most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch, and Irish Women.
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.
Sharp, Elizabeth A., editor. Women Poets of the Victorian Era. Walter Scott, 1889.
xxx

1845: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,...

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1845

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was published; it went through nine British editions by 1847.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates, editors. “Introduction”. The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987, p. ix - xviii.
xi

28 December 1694: The twelve-year-old marriage between the...

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28 December 1694

The twelve-year-old marriage between the future George I and Sophia Dorothea of Celle was dissolved; Sophia Dorothea's lover had already been killed, probably without her husband's knowledge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George I

March 1877: The Senate of the University of London decided...

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March 1877

The Senate of the University of London decided to admit a female student to their Medical Faculty; this decision was suspended a month later.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
187

1956: The Paris Congress brought together for discussion...

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1956

The Paris Congress brought together for discussion Black writers and artists from Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA.
White, Landeg. “The Dignity of Merchants”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, pp. 40-1.
40

1831: Elizabeth Poole Sandford published the conduct...

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1831

Elizabeth Poole Sandford published the conduct book Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character.
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.

25 July 1985: The UK's Child Abduction and Custody Act...

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25 July 1985

The UK's Child Abduction and Custody Act ratified the Hague Convention, relating to civil aspects of international child abduction, and the European Convention, relating to recognition and enforcement of custody decisions.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1985): 1757-82

1913: The Zeit, a Yiddish newspaper, was founded...

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1913

The Zeit, a Yiddish newspaper, was founded in London.
Lipman, Vivian David. Social History of Jews in England, 1850-1950. Watts, 1954.
131

1948: The University College, Ibadan, Nigeria,...

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1948

The University College , Ibadan, Nigeria, was taken into special relation with the University of London .
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
252
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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