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1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...

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1588

Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading to Africa.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Africa

1968: An English translation of Rabelais and His...

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1968

An English translation of Rabelais and His World (the doctoral dissertation of Mikhail Bakhtin , which had been rejected by the examiners in 1946) was published in the USA by MIT Press .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Agnes Hamilton

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...
Mary Agnes Hamilton Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Mary Agnes Hamilton, taken from the side but turning her face to the camera. Her blouse or jacket looks silky; her dark hair is in coils over her ears.

August 1854: Austrian troops replaced Russian ones in...

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August 1854

Austrian troops replaced Russian ones in the Danubian Principalities, and Austria recommended Four Points to be accepted as terms for peace (in the Crimean War).
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1902: Popular operatic tenor Enrico Caruso began...

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1902

Popular operatic tenor Enrico Caruso began making records for the gramophone.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
8: 123

Between 1972 and 1976: Four hundred rape crisis centres opened across...

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Between 1972 and 1976

Four hundred rape crisis centres opened across the USA.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
252

1769: Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological...

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1769

Joseph Priestley began publishing The Theological Repository, an influential Dissenting journal.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25

29 May 1660: Charles II entered London as the restored...

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29 May 1660

Charles II entered London as the restored king; the date became one of annual celebration for royalists.
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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December 1852: The first examination for the Midwifery Licence...

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December 1852

The first examination for the Midwifery Licence of the College of Surgeons was held.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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17 September 1832: The first number appeared of The Tourist:...

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17 September 1832

The first number appeared of The Tourist: a Literary and Anti-Slavery Journal, published at London under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

3 June 1720: The House of Commons agreed to amendments...

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3 June 1720

The House of Commons agreed to amendments from the Lords to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
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13 April 1945: The Russians took Vienna from the Nazis....

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13 April 1945

The Russians took Vienna from the Nazis.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
219
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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28 August 1816: The Dey or Governor of Algiers signed a peace...

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28 August 1816

The Dey or Governor of Algiers signed a peace treaty with England and Holland, one article of which decreed an end to the practice of making slaves of Christians captured in battle.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
86 (1816 no. 2): 354-5

By 24 November 1888: Tasma (Jessie Couvreur), who took her pen-name...

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By 24 November 1888

Tasma (Jessie Couvreur) , who took her pen-name from her early years in Tasmania, published her first novel, Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3187 (1888): 694
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.

15 April 1912: The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the...

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15 April 1912

The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the Labour Party , was launched on capital of £200; it changed its title to the Herald and back again to the Daily Herald before expiring in 1964.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Taylor, Miles. “Thanks to the Fels-Naptha Soap King”. London Review of Books, 22 May 2003, pp. 23-4.
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1998: Rosemarie Hudson (who came to Britain from...

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1998

Rosemarie Hudson (who came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1960s at the age of twelve) founded the firm of Black/Amber, BlackAmber or Black Amber , which publishes books by black and Asian writers in Britain.
BlackAmber Books. http://www.blackamber.com/general/about.htm.

13 November 1849: William Etty died: a genre painter, Etty...

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13 November 1849

William Etty died: a genre painter, Etty was one few English artists of his time to concentrate almost exclusively on nudes.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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July 1567: Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or,...

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July 1567

Mary Queen of Scots miscarried of twins—or, according to an unsubstantiated rumour, bore a live daughter who was despatched to a French convent.
Fraser, Antonia. Mary, Queen of Scots. Franklin Library, 1981.
371

By 30 May 1854: William Edmonstoune Aytoun published his...

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By 30 May 1854

William Edmonstoune Aytoun published his parody of the poems of the Spasmodic school, Firmilian, in Blackwood's Magazine.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1405 (30 September 1854): 1165
Masson, Rosaline Orme. Pollok and Aytoun. Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, 1898.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

By 4 March 1871: Charles Darwin published another important...

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By 4 March 1871

Charles Darwin published another important scientific work, The Descent of Man.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2262 (1871): 275
Rosser, Sue V., and A. Charlotte Hogsett. “Darwin and Sexism: Victorian Causes, Contemporary Effects”. Feminist Visions: Toward a Transformation of the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Diane L. Fowlkes and Charlotte S. McClure, University of Alabama Press, 1984.
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4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...

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4 October 1951

E. M. Forster 's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme was published in The Listener.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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22 May 1940: In the Extended Employment for Women Agreement,...

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22 May 1940

In the Extended Employment for Women Agreement, unions in the engineering industry concurred that for the duration of the war, women would be allowed into male-exclusive jobs.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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Summerfield, Penny. Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict. Croom Helm, 1984.
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25 July 1593: Henri IV of France converted from Protestantism...

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25 July 1593

Henri IV of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
270
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
487

15 March 1939: Talks were in progress between Courtaulds...

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15 March 1939

Talks were in progress between Courtaulds and Imperial Chemical Industries about the proposed manufacture in Britain of fibre made of nylon, a new synthetic product announced last October in the USA.
“15 March 1939. Nylon touted as silk substitute”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Mar. 2013, p. 22.

1850: Toilets on board trains were introduced,...

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1850

Toilets on board trains were introduced, although ordinary coaches did not have water-closets until much later.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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