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1872: Gustave Doré published illustrations to William...

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1872

Gustave Doré published illustrations to William Blanchard Jerrold 's London: A Pilgrimage, which vividly catch the two extremes of wealth and poverty, splendour and misery.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
285, 508
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Doré

1862: The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody,...

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1862

The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody , with a £150,000 donation, to create affordable urban housing.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
46
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
380

1979: St Vincent and the Grenadines became independent...

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1979

St Vincent and the Grenadines became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
249

1883: Asylum reformer and feminist Louisa Lowe...

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1883

Asylum reformer and feminist Louisa Lowe published The Bastilles of England; or, The Lunacy Laws at Work.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
126

After February 1883: The White Cross Army, a chastity society,...

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After February 1883

The White Cross Army , a chastity society, was founded.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
100, 103-5

23 June 1885: The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)...

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23 June 1885

The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative ) formed a minority government in Britain.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

18 June 2006: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada,...

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18 June 2006

Katharine Jefferts Schori , Bishop of Nevada, became arguably . . . the highest-ranking woman in Episcopal history when she was chosen presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in America.
Bates, Stephen. “Into the breach”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, p. 29.
29

1903: In her early twenties, American Helen Keller...

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1903

In her early twenties, American Helen Keller published The Story of My Life, which relates how she achieved advanced education despite the deafness and blindness that had struck her down in babyhood.
Nielsen, Kim E. “Rethinking Helen Keller”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxi
, No. 4, Jan. 2004, pp. 10-11.
10-11

14 February 1477: Margery Brews sent to John Paston what some...

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14 February 1477

Margery Brews sent to John Paston what some regard as the earliest surviving Valentine, asking him to keep it secret.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
(14 February 2000)

1835-1838: The Dutch Boers north and east of the Orange...

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1835-1838

The Dutch Boers north and east of the Orange River went on their Great Trek to escape from British restrictions on slavery and from policies perceived as sympathetic to natives.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 745

February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...

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February 1555

The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I 's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
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
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9.
27-9

John Clare

1 January 1936: British Airways began operations after a...

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1 January 1936

British Airways began operations after a merger of United Airways Limited , Spartan Airlines Limited , and Hillman's Airways .
Bruno writes that British Airways was formed on 1 Oct 1935; the later date indicates...

10 August 1840: The Irish Municipal Reform Act was passe...

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10 August 1840

The Irish Municipal Reform Act was passed.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
21
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
310, 606

5 October 1947: The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)...

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5 October 1947

The Cominform (Communist Information Bureau ) was founded at the Warsaw Conference and established in Belgrade.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
253
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 231

February 1913: Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins, Margaret...

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February 1913

Four women prisoners—Margaret Cousins , Margaret Connery , Barbara Hoskins , and Mabel Purves —went on a hunger strike for six days at Tullamore Prison to demand political prisoner status.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
101

1889: The Typefounder's Society, London, was f...

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1889

The Typefounder's Society , London, was founded.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
162

Early 1831: The London Temperance Society was founde...

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Early 1831

The London Temperance Society was founded.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
12-13

1561: Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena,...

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1561

Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena, Italy, gave scientific names to the vagina, placenta, and fallopian tubes, and was the first to describe the male contraceptive sheath, meant for prevention of venereal disease.
Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
67-8
Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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John Henry Newman

JHN 's many writings on theology and education were an important component of his career as Victorian religious seeker, teacher, and man of letters.
John Henry Newman Portrait miniature of the young John Henry Newman in black and white. He sits facing the viewer with hands clasped in his lap, clean-shaven, wearing oval-shaped glasses, jacket, waistcoat, and a white bow tie.

: The Dublin Review ceased independent publication;...

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Winter 1968-9

The Dublin Review ceased independent publication; after this issue it became part of The Month.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 18

29 July 1771: The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus...

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29 July 1771

The botanist Anna Blackburne wrote to Linnaeus in Uppsala to offer him biological specimens from New York State.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1718: The Society of Antiquaries, founded in 1572...

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1718

The Society of Antiquaries , founded in 1572 but lapsed, was refounded and endured.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
471
Baines, Paul. “’Our Annius’: Antiquaries and Fraud in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 33-51.
36

31 May 1745: William Hogarth issued his series of engravings...

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31 May 1745

William Hogarth issued his series of engravings entitled Marriage A-la-Mode.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
387, 389

Colette

Colette , a Frenchwoman whose career began with the twentieth century, wrote nearly eighty volumes of fiction (often depicting lesbian or other scandalous sexuality), as well as journalism, memoirs (she is a great self-fashioner), and...
Colette Black and white photograph of Colette wearing a man's suit (with cuffed jacket) and dress shoes. She is sittine turned in a chair so that her arm rests on its back, crossing her left leg over her right, and smoking a cigarette. She wear her hair in a curly bob.