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4 June 1913: Women's Social and Political Union supporter...

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4 June 1913

Women's Social and Political Union supporter Emily Wilding Davison threw herself in front of the king 's horse at the Epsom Derby; she died from her injuries several days later.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
136
Lloyd, Trevor. Suffragettes International: The World-Wide Campaign for Women’s Rights. American Heritage Press, 1971.
89-90
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Davison

1878: Bulgaria gained a measure of independence...

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1878

Bulgaria gained a measure of independence from Turkey.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
93

1975: Junko Tabei from Japan climbed Mount Everest,...

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1975

Junko Tabei from Japan climbed Mount Everest, the first woman to do so.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

May 1809: William Blake's exhibition of his own work...

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May 1809

William Blake 's exhibition of his own work opened at 28 Broad Street (his brother James's house); though scheduled to close in September, it ran until 2 June 1810.
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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1911: The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art...

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1911

The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art was opened by John Liston Byam Shaw and Rex Vicat Cole on Campden Hill, Kensington, London.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
50

16 October 1916: Margaret Sanger opened a birth-control clinic...

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16 October 1916

Margaret Sanger opened a birth-control clinic at 46 Amboy Street in New York (Brooklyn), four and a half years ahead of the first such British clinic, which was the brainchild of Marie Stopes .
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
“On this Day, September 7, 1966”. The New York Times, 7 Sept. 1966.

Agnes Wenman

Agnes, Lady Wenman , a Catholic gentlewoman who married an Anglican in the later years of Queen Elizabeth , left one identified text: a translation from French of a work of ancient history, written originally...

10-11 April 1718: Ann Barnham, bookbinder, was arrested for...

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10-11 April 1718

Ann Barnham , bookbinder, was arrested for possessing treasonous Jacobite publications. She testified with great aplomb that she had just picked up abandoned copies out of curiosity.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
97-8, 51n28

19 November 1869: The Hudson Bay Company sold Rupert's Land,...

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19 November 1869

The Hudson Bay Company sold Rupert's Land, or the North West Territories (now Nunavut), to the Crown for £300,000, all except for one twentieth of the land, which it retained.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 475
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
835

1555: French poet Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a...

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1555

French poet Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a salonnière in the city of Lyons, daughter and wife of rope-makers, published her Oeuvres at Lyons.
Ehrengardt, Thibault. “Louise Labé, Head Corner Stone”. Rare Book Hub, Oct. 2015.

1 April 1977: Woman's World, a modestly successful monthly...

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1 April 1977

Woman's World, a modestly successful monthly magazine for young women, began publication in London. It ran until 1990.
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
166
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1758: Carl Linnaeus' tenth edition of his Systema...

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1758

Carl Linnaeus ' tenth edition of his Systema Naturae catalogued all known fauna and flora.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
524
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
passim

Early 1874: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was elected to...

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Early 1874

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was elected to the British Medical Association , where she remained for nineteen years the only female member.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
189-90

By 26 March 1741: Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month,...

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By 26 March 1741

Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month, a refutation to sexist attack by Jean-Baptiste Dortous de Mairin , Secretary of the Académie Française , on her Treatise on the Nature of Fire.
Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.
176ff
Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.
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1875: Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland...

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1875

Elizabeth Stone (the one who wrote as Sutherland Menzies) issued a History of France for Junior Classes.
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.

1837: David Nutt, with a bookshop at 158 Fleet...

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1837

David Nutt , with a bookshop at 158 Fleet Street, London, began publishing as well as selling books.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 228

May Edginton

ME was a novelist popular in her day who published more than fifty romances between 1909 and 1955, besides serials, short stories, and plays. Several of her plays did well on stage. One of her...

1918: The English Electric Company was formed....

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1918

The English Electric Company was formed.
Electricity Council. Electricity Supply in Great Britain: A Chronology. Electricity Council, 1973.
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May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...

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May 1909

The Women's Social and Political Union held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925.
164

22 May 1970: A bomb discovered at a police station in...

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22 May 1970

A bomb discovered at a police station in Paddington (following a series of sporadic bomb incidents reaching back over a year) was the first to be (later) attributed to the Angry Brigade.
“Angry Brigade Chronology”. Spunk Library.

1851: A machine was developed to print wallpaper...

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1851

A machine was developed to print wallpaper patterns cheaply and efficiently.
Daunton, Martin. “Health and Housing in Victorian London”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 126-44.
143

1713: Theft by a servant from an employer became...

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1713

Theft by a servant from an employer became a capital offence in Britain.
Beattie, John M. “’Hard-pressed to make ends meet’: Women and Crime in Augustan London”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 103-15.
105

March 1836: Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and...

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March 1836

Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and Aspasia, a collection of imaginary letters between the Athenian statesman and the learned and cultivated courtesan.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
441 (1836): 253
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
87
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Elwin, Malcolm. Landor, a Replevin. Macdonald, 1958.
285

1231: Cambridge University was granted its first...

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1231

Cambridge University was granted its first charter, by Henry III .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
210
Leach, Arthur Francis. Educational Charters and Documents, 598-1909. AMS Press, 1971.
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Cobban, Alan B. The Medieval Universities: Their Development and and Organization. Methuen, 1975.
110, 111

Probably September 1680: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Princess of Cleve...

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Probably September 1680

Nathaniel Lee 's tragedy The Princess of Cleve was first performed.
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.