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1789: During the year following passage of the...

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1789

During the year following passage of the Slave-Trade Regulation Bill, the House of Commons postponed until next session a decision about abolition; meanwhile a push for regulation as opposed to abolition was gaining ground.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
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1844: By this date, South London wells were predominately...

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1844

By this date, South London wells were predominately polluted from nearby cesspools, and only the very poor still collected water by this means.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
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Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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Mary Oxlie:

MO was either a northern English or a Scottish poet of the sixteenth century. Only a single poem survives that can be confidently attributed to her, a literary eulogy or friendship poem. It cannot, in...

22 May 1906: The last British soldiers in Canada left...

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22 May 1906

The last British soldiers in Canada left Esquimalt, British Columbia.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 495

4 September 1935: The Schoolmistress ceased publication when...

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4 September 1935

The Schoolmistress ceased publication when it merged with Woman's Teacher's World.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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22 March 1946: Britain recognized the independence of T...

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22 March 1946

Britain recognized the independence of Transjordan.
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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1822: Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete...

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1822

Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete internal overhaul.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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July 1879-December 1880: A pornographic monthly entitled The Pearl,...

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July 1879-December 1880

A pornographic monthly entitled The Pearl, A Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading ran for eighteen issues.
Battersby, James. “A Prologue after, Not by, Johnson”. Johnsonian News Letter, edited by Robert, Jr DeMaria, Vol.
lv
, No. 2, Sept. 2004, pp. 55-8.
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6 April 1199: Richard I died and King John succeeded to...

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6 April 1199

Richard I died and King John succeeded to the throne.
Norgate, Kate. England under the Angevin Kings. B. Franklin, 1969.
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: London participated in an international Time's...

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2018-01-21

London participated in an international Time's Up rally designed to say time's up on women's issues such as sexual harassment and the pay gap. Over 8,000 people registered their interest in the event on Facebook .
Hopkins, Steven. “Watch Time’s Up Women’s March In London”. Huffington Post, 21 Jan. 2019.

2 March 1848: A revolution began in south-west Germany,...

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2 March 1848

A revolution began in south-west Germany, where the Grand Duchy of Baden's population demonstrated against the Metternich System and the Carlsbad Decrees.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Dorothy Wellesley

DW , writing in the earlier twentieth century, published a dozen volumes of poetry. She was also an editor of contemporary poetry, a letter-writer, critic, biographer and autobiographer. Her association first with the Hogarth Press

1838: The Phrenological Association was founded;...

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1838

The Phrenological Association was founded; its mandate was to make phrenology respectable.
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
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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.
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1680: Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, or The Natural...

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1680

Sir Robert Filmer 's Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings was posthumously published.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

Catherine Fanshawe

CF wrote mostly in the early nineteenth century, though she began before the end of the old century. She composed private poems and letters (of which only a tiny proportion survive); sophisticated, high-spirited, sharp-tongued parodies...

6-13 January 1842: Approximately 3,849 British soldiers and...

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6-13 January 1842

Approximately 3,849 British soldiers and 12,000 camp followers were massacred in the Khyber Pass following the British retreat from Kabul. Most of those killed were Indian sepoys. With no battle, they were picked off...

1927: The University College of Hull was founded;...

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1927

The University College of Hull was founded; it became the University of Hull in 1954.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
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1830-1834: The Owenite socialist movement flourished...

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1830-1834

The Owenite socialist movement flourished in Britain.
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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1864: Samuel Crowther became the first black man...

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1864

Samuel Crowther became the first black man to be appointed a bishop in Africa.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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December 1943: The first electronic decryption device, the...

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December 1943

The first electronic decryption device, the Colossus, was operational in prototype. By 5 February 1944 it was in use at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in England to decipher coded German...

9 February 1775: Edmund Burke wrote that he supported full...

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9 February 1775

Edmund Burke wrote that he supported full civil protection, including freedom of publick religious worship, and a power of teaching in schools . . . to Jews Mahometans and even Pagans.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 577-00.
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De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 577-00.
578, 579 and n10, 583

1839-1840: Official literacy rates (that is, of those...

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1839-1840

Official literacy rates (that is, of those able to sign their name) were measured for the first time in the UK: 67 percent for men, 51 percent for women.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
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1970-1975: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's...

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1970-1975

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective 's Our Bodies, Ourselves earned the collective over $500,000 in royalties with sales of more than one million copies.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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December 1958: Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize...

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December 1958

Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He initially accepted the prize, but was quickly forced by the Soviet government to decline it.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.