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1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...

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1588

Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading to Africa.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Africa

1843: The Governesses' Benevolent Association was...

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1843

The Governesses' Benevolent Association was founded in London.
Turner, Barry. Equality for Some: The Story of Girls’ Education. Ward Lock Educational, 1974.
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Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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26 June 1885: The first of two letters to the Times of...

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26 June 1885

The first of two letters to the Times of India by Rukhmabai appeared under the pseudonym A Hindu Lady.
Chandra, Sudhir. Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law, and Women’s Rights. Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
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January 1938: Peggy Guggenheim opened a gallery called...

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January 1938

Peggy Guggenheim opened a gallery called Guggenheim Jeune in Cork Street, London, which did much to promote an English taste for avant-garde Continental art.
Penny, Nicholas. “At the Palazzo Venier”. London Review of Books, 9 May 2002, pp. 12-13.
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Early 1957: Israel moved out of the Sinai peninsula,...

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Early 1957

Israel moved out of the Sinai peninsula, and the United Nations sent in its first Emergency Force to demilitarize the area and keep the peace.
Krauthammer, Charles. “Let peacekeeping rest in peace”. Guardian Weekly, 8–14 June 2000, p. 31.
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1701: The year after Dryden's death, his Comedies,...

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The year after Dryden 's death, his Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas were first collected and published, both in two independent volumes and as part of a four-volume Works.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1706: The word condum first appeared in a poem...

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1706

The word condum first appeared in a poem called A Scots Answer to a British Vision; early variant spellings of condom included condon and condum.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Both sources suggest condoms were named after...

1791: William Gilpin founded a parochial school...

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1791

William Gilpin founded a parochial school in Hampshire in which boys were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but girls learned only reading, knitting, and sewing.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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March 1872: The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion...

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March 1872

The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society began publication in London.
Cope, Virginia H. The Ladies. http://etext.virginia.edu/ladies/ladyhome.html.

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1821: John Power published Essays on the Female...

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1821

John Power published Essays on the Female Economy.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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C. E. Plumptre

CEP wrote during the later nineteenth century on religious and philosophical issues. She authored five books and many periodical essays. She was especially interested in Pantheist philosophers, deliberately seeking out and championing persecuted and obscure...

By 4 March 1871: Charles Darwin published another important...

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By 4 March 1871

Charles Darwin published another important scientific work, The Descent of Man.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Rosser, Sue V., and A. Charlotte Hogsett. “Darwin and Sexism: Victorian Causes, Contemporary Effects”. Feminist Visions: Toward a Transformation of the Liberal Arts Curriculum, edited by Diane L. Fowlkes and Charlotte S. McClure, University of Alabama Press, 1984.
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February 1893: Walter Pater published a selection of lectures...

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February 1893

Walter Pater published a selection of lectures and essays, Plato and Platonism.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1886: By this date, the Ladies' National Association...

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1886

By this date, the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts claimed that more than 500,000 forced exams of prostitutes had shown no sign of disease in the women.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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10 April 1858: An advertisement for Mudie's Circulating...

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10 April 1858

An advertisement for Mudie's Circulating Library boasted of its vast holdings of popular titles.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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1810: Saartjie Baartman, later known as the Hottentot...

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1810

Saartjie Baartman , later known as the Hottentot Venus, sailed from Cape Town in South Africa for London, where she had been led to believe she could make her fortune by exhibiting herself.
McGreal, Chris. “Homeward bound”. Guardian Weekly, 6 Mar. 2002, p. 26.
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Mary Leadbeater

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

November 1967: The pound sterling was devalued, something...

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November 1967

The pound sterling was devalued, something which Harold Wilson 's Labour government had been trying in vain to prevent.
Davies, Peter, MPhil. “Sterling and Strings”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 20 Nov. 2008, pp. 17-18.
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July 1644: The Parliamentary forces won a victory in...

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July 1644

The Parliamentary forces won a victory in the second battle of Edgehill.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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1905: Fritz Schaudinn discovered the organism responsible...

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1905

Fritz Schaudinn discovered the organism responsible for syphilis.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1965: Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied...

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1965

Margaret Stanley Wrench translated and supplied an introdction for Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1743: Laurence Heister advised in his A General...

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1743

Laurence Heister advised in his A General System of Surgery on how to deal with the pain and fear of women facing mastectomy (with, of course, no anaesthetics).
Heister, Laurence. A General System of Surgery. W. Innys, 1743.
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26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...

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26 February 1797

The Bank of England , alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.
Palk, Deirdre. “’Fit Objects for Mercy’: Gender, the Bank of England and Currency Criminals, 1804-1833”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2004, pp. 237-58.
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1604: A law was passed to invoke sanctions against...

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1604

A law was passed to invoke sanctions against bigamy.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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