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31 July 2007: The British Army's role in Northern Ireland,...

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31 July 2007

The British Army 's role in Northern Ireland, which had become known as Operation Banner, came to an end thirty-eight years after it began.
“Army ending its operation in N[orthern] I[reland]”. BBC News, 31 July 2007.

Elizabeth Heyrick

Though, as a woman, she worked behind the scenes (not in parliament but through print and private direct action) EH of Leicester was a major, under-recognised figure in the campaign for the abolition of the...

June 1787: A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers...

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June 1787

A report from the Yearly Meeting of Quakers in this and the previous month noted a growing attention in many not of our religious society to the subject of Negro slavery.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
57 (1787): 721-2

20 November 1837: Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint...

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20 November 1837

Joanna Baillie wrote a heartfelt complaint (which she feared might sound envious & spiteful) about the effects of the recent fashion for expensive albums, or annuals or gift books.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 668

10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...

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10 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her mother from Henry VIII 's sister Mary ) acceded to the throne of England.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

3 September 1802: William Wordsworth composed his well-known...

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3 September 1802

William Wordsworth composed his well-known sonnet Upon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
Tollet, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. J. Clarke, 1755.
152
Purkis, John. A Preface to Wordsworth. Scribner, 1970.
192

1889: Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer...

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1889

Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer Sonata; it was quickly translated into English, French, and German.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

11 February 1921: The Athenæum, famous Victorian weekly, ceased...

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11 February 1921

The Athenæum, famous Victorian weekly, ceased publication under its existing title; it resumed a week later as The Nation and the Athenæum, which changed again from 3 July 1926 to The Nation and Athenæum.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
32
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.

March 1663: The American colony of Carolina was granted...

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March 1663

The American colony of Carolina was granted a Charter.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
188
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xi
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
553

5 December 1941: Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary,...

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5 December 1941

Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary, and Romania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
64
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
290

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster 's tally of books, which began to appear in the later twentieth century, neared forty. They run the gamut from novels at one end to history and biography at the other, emphasising the...
Margaret Forster Black-and-white portrait photo of Margaret Forster, looking at the camera and leaning on what could be the back of a couch, 30 January 1964.

2 August 1270: Louis IX of France (also called St Louis)...

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2 August 1270

Louis IX of France (also called St Louis) died at Carthage on the final crusade (the second of his reign).
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

7 July 2005: Fifty-two people died and many were injured...

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7 July 2005

Fifty-two people died and many were injured in suicide bombings on the London tube and a bus during the morning rush hour.
Aitkenhead, Decca. “A Year of Catastrophe”. Guardian Unlimited, 31 Dec. 2005.

Just before 23 April 1718: A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes...

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Just before 23 April 1718

A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes in St Giles in the Fields parish to flog him. The man later summoned one of the prostitutes to court for robbing him of two guineas, but...

1938: Anthony Asquith directed the film Pygmalion...

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1938

Anthony Asquith directed the film Pygmalion (from George Bernard Shaw 's original play), which is remembered as his most successful film. Pygmalion went on to win two Oscars, including Shaw's for best screenplay.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
384
Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
200

March 1821: Piedmont suffered a revolt instigated by...

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March 1821

Piedmont suffered a revolt instigated by the Carbonari ; its king, King Victor Emmanuel I , abdicated in favour of his brother Charles Felix ; but Austria put down the revolt, together with another in Naples.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
51, 273

January 1806: The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1806

The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London, edited by Robert Aspland .
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
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1836: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...

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1836

William Makepeace Thackeray published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

11 May 1699: The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious...

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11 May 1699

The Rev. John Sprint preached a notorious misogynist wedding sermon at Sherborne in Dorset.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
xxi

1798-1800: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published,...

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1798-1800

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller published, in three parts, his historical tragedy Wallenstein.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 24 (1798): 155-63
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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94

2 May 1951: Iran (formerly Persia) nationalized its oil...

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2 May 1951

Iran (formerly Persia) nationalized its oil industry, which was still in foreign (mostly British) hands.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
240, 255
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
534, 538
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1259

October 1765: Resistance to the Stamp Act in America i...

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October 1765

Resistance to the Stamp Act in America increased.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
141-2, 151, 187-8

September to November 1929: Book production rose to an unprecedented...

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September to November 1929

Book production rose to an unprecedented sixty titles per day, most of them novels.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
56-7

1 January 1757: The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening...

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1 January 1757

The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening Post began publication.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 706
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
155

1796-1815: Throughout these war years the Bibliothèque...

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1796-1815

Throughout these war years the Bibliothèque britannique, published in Geneva, kept open cultural relations between France and England.
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.