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1856: Isaac Singer opened his first sewing machine...

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1856

Isaac Singer opened his first sewing machine retail outlet, in Glasgow; Singer's store was among the first to sell only one brand of merchandise.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1824: The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons,...

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1824

The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons, a monthly magazine on high culture and fashion, was founded in London by Mr and Mrs Bell .
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
29-30

1828: The first issue of the successful annual...

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1828

The first issue of the successful annual gift book The Keepsake appeared; lavish production and distinguished contributors raised the price of this and other such publications to a guinea.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
381

1 March 1873: Christopher Latham Sholes of the USA signed...

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1 March 1873

Christopher Latham Sholes of the USA signed a contract with E. Remington and Sons of New York to produce portable typewriters.
Adler, Michael H. The Writing Machine. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
149-50
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 June 2011

By May 1922: Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police...

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By May 1922

Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police Women from being disbanded at the recommendation of the Geddes Report.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
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Luck, Joan. The British Policewoman: Her Story. R. Hale, 1979.
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1776: Maria Maddelena Morelli, or Corilla Olimpica,...

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1776

Maria Maddelena Morelli , or Corilla Olimpica, a member of the Italian Accademia degli Arcadi , was crowned on the Capitoline Hill in Rome (as Petrarch had been before her).
Dixon, Susan M. “Women in Arcadia”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 371-5.
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1780-4: The Second Mysore War was fought....

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1780-4

The Second Mysore War was fought.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
51, 62

December 1914: Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906...

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December 1914

Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906 by Arthur Griffith as a vehicle of the Irish nationalist group Sinn Féin , was suppressed.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
446

14 May 1842: The first issue of the Illustrated London...

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14 May 1842

The first issue of the Illustrated London News appeared, with a large number of illustrations and advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
146
Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopædia Britannica, 1966, 24 vols.
19: 563
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

20 September 2006: At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five...

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20 September 2006

At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five poets laureates (of two Canadian cities, one Canadian province, Canada itself, and the District of Columbia, USA—all, as it happened, women) debated the issues of laureateship.
“Forum: Poetry, Private and Public”. Edmonton Poetry Festival.

1854: The Pure Literature Society was founded under...

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1854

The Pure Literature Society was founded under Lord Shaftesbury 's leadership with the aim of stemming the increasingly sensational tide in evangelical literature.
Jay, Elisabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Clarendon Press, 1979.
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5 April 1867: John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons...

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5 April 1867

John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons with a second women's suffrage petitionpetition, bearing over three thousand signatures.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
163

July 1940: Margarine, cooking fats, and tea were rationed...

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July 1940

Margarine, cooking fats, and tea were rationed to two ounces per week, and the government called a stop to the sale of timber for furniture.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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30 September 1760: Lady Coventry (formerly the beautiful Maria...

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30 September 1760

Lady Coventry (formerly the beautiful Maria Gunning) died, allegedly of the effects of white lead cosmetics.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.
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1769: Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria...

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1769

Josiah Wedgwood opened a new pottery at Etruria near Hanley in Staffordshire, a village he had designed and built for his workpeople.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

January 1983: Time Magazine named the personal computer...

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January 1983

Time Magazine named the personal computer as its Man of the Year for 1982.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
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18 June 1840-7 July 1841: Edward J. Eyre completed a gruelling expedition...

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18 June 1840-7 July 1841

Edward J. Eyre completed a gruelling expedition overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A History of Australia. Melbourne University Press, 1981.
III: 77
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A Short History of Australia. Revised Illustrated, Penguin, 1986.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

27 January 1916: An amendment to the Munitions Act allowed...

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27 January 1916

An amendment to the Munitions Act allowed the Minister of Munitions to fix wage rates for females and semi-skilled men performing skilled munitions work.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Home Front: A Mirror to Life in England During the First World War. Hutchinson, 1932.
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Catherine Byron

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...

4 March 1882: Electric tramway cars were in introduced...

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4 March 1882

Electric tramway cars were in introduced in the developing north-east London area of Leytonstone; this was an early date for electric trams.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
307

1872: The French army was reorganized under Louis...

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1872

The French army was reorganized under Louis Thiers , and conscription was introduced.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1801: Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his...

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1801

Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his mildly erotic Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96
Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.
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1879: Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler,...

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1879

Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler , sister of poet Alice Meynell , fought unsuccessfully to become the first woman elected as a Royal Academy member.
Casteras, Susan P., and Linda H. Peterson. A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors. Yale Center for British Art, 1994.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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1874: Major Wingfield introduced the game of lawn...

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1874

Major Wingfield introduced the game of lawn tennis; a craze for the sport soon swept the nation.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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15 May 1930: Writer and activist Sarojini Naidu (as a...

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15 May 1930

Writer and activist Sarojini Naidu (as a member of an Indian women's organization) led a raid on the government salt depot at Dharasana in India.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 847-8