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30 July 1768-12 June 1771: Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made...

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30 July 1768-12 June 1771

Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook made his first circumnavigation of the world, bringing about huge advances in knowledge of global natural history.
Watkins, Tom H., and Cary Wolinsky. “Sir Joseph Banks”. National Geographic, Vol.
190
, No. 5, Nov. 1996, pp. 28-52.
28-52

1892: The Glasgow School of Art created Technical...

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1892

The Glasgow School of Art created Technical Arts Studios.
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
84

1918-1938: Louisa Emily (Emma) Lomax held the position...

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1918-1938

Louisa Emily (Emma) Lomax held the position of Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
xxvii, 286

By December 1753: Two anonymous works were published which...

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By December 1753

Two anonymous works were published which testified to the popularity of Richard Glover 's tragedy about Boadicea .
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...

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1838

The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House of Commons but was rejected by the House of Lords .
Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, 1982, p. I - XIII.
ix

Christmas 1914: German and Allied forces at the front lines...

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Christmas 1914

German and Allied forces at the front lines began an informal cease-fire, which lasted up to five days, in honour of the season.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

22 September 1646: The Midwives' Just Complaint, published in...

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22 September 1646

The Midwives' Just Complaint, published in London, called for a cessation of England's civil war because it interrupted procreation and childbirth.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
144

16 June 2016: Jo Cox, a Labour member of parliament and...

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16 June 2016

Jo Cox , a Labour member of parliament and a young mother, was attacked in the street in Birstall (part of her constituency). She was shot and stabbed repeatedly: a hate crime perpetrated by a...

March 1835: Madame Tussaud, now in her mid-seventies,...

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March 1835

Madame Tussaud , now in her mid-seventies, established her waxworks exhibition at the Bazaar on Baker Street in London, after touring England, Ireland, and Scotland for over thirty years.
Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Belknap Press, 1978.
333, 336-7
Pilbeam, Pamela. Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks. Hambledon and London, 2003.
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1850: In this year alone, nearly 250,000 persons...

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1850

In this year alone, nearly 250,000 persons emigrated overseas from Ireland.
Fitzpatrick, David. Irish Emigration 1801-1921. Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1984.
3-4, 7, 8

13 May 1813: Henry Grattan's Catholic Emancipation Bill...

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13 May 1813

Henry Grattan 's Catholic Emancipation Bill (introduced on 30 April) was deferred for lack of support in Parliament.
Herron, Bonnie. "An Old Ballad Monger": Hannah More’s Unpublished Letters 1798-1827. University of Alberta, 1999.
106
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

3 September 1951: The International Astronomical Federation...

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3 September 1951

The International Astronomical Federation was founded.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
260

January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...

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January 1792

A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson , brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
xvii

28 March 1762: Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the...

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28 March 1762

Preaching at the opening of a chapel at the LondonLock Hospital (for sexually transmitted disease) the Rev. Martin Madan pointed the finger at men who knowingly infect children.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
134-5

8 January 1959: Charles de Gaulle was proclaimed the first...

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8 January 1959

Charles de Gaulle was proclaimed the first President of the Fifth Republic in France.
“1959: De Gaulle becomes president”. BBC News: On This Day, 8 Jan. 1959.
“May-December 1958: the nation turns to de Gaulle”. Charles-De-Gaulle.org.

Anne Grant

AG 's life as woman of letters, which had its foundations in a bookish, colonial American childhood and isolated, late-eighteenth-century married years in the Scottish Highlands, was constructed during her residence in Edinburgh during the...
Anne Grant Black and white engraving of Anne Grant by H. Robinson after a painting by K. Macleay. She sits in an armchair wearing a large ribboned cap and frilled collar tied with a black bow, with a shawl over her dress. Behind her is a dark curtain and a small table with books and papers. Above her right shoulder a window shows a Highland scene: a little boat on a tree-fringed loch and hills or mountains behind.

Constance Lytton

Apart from her warm and witty private correspondence, CL is remembered as a writer solely in connection with her early-twentieth-century suffrage involvement, particularly her one-woman campaign to prove that the British government was treating political...
Constance Lytton Black and white photograph of Constance Lytton, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a white dress and a beaded necklace, and her dark hair is pulled into a dark bun on the top of her head.

1887: Nina Kennard published another biography...

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1887

Nina Kennard published another biography of a famous actress, this time Mrs. Siddons, for W. H. Allen 's Eminent Women Series.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1905: The National League for Physical Education...

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1905

The National League for Physical Education and Improvement was founded in England.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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By 29 March 1956: Father Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican missionary...

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By 29 March 1956

Father Trevor Huddleston , an Anglican missionary recently returned from South Africa, where he had run a religious community in the former township of Sophiatown, Johannesburg, published a book about South Africa entitled Naught...

June 1973: A power-sharing assembly was elected in Northern...

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June 1973

A power-sharing assembly was elected in Northern Ireland, but its first sitting, the following month, was disrupted by Ian Paisley and his followers.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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29 March 1842: The annual children's meeting of the London...

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29 March 1842

The annual children's meeting of the London Missionary Society drew between five and six thousand children.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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Mary Leapor

The poetry of the labouring-class ML (who died before she was thirty) remakes standard Augustan conventions from an outsider's point of view. This poetry would be important for its sheer literary quality even apart from...
Mary Leapor Title-page of Mary Leapor's "Poems upon Several Occasions", posthumously published by subscription in 1748. A second volume followed in 1751.

October 1953: The influential literary and cultural magazine...

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October 1953

The influential literary and cultural magazine Encounter was launched in London; the editors were Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol .
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.
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.
Jacobson, Dan. “The Price”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 22-8.
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Collini, Stefan. “Stainless Splendour”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 6-10.
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1770: The minority Roman Catholic population in...

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1770

The minority Roman Catholic population in Britain was estimated at 80,000.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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