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7 April 1922: The first ever mid-air collision of passenger...

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7 April 1922

The first ever mid-air collision of passenger flights occurred over France with the loss of seven lives.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
198

15 February 1830: The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the...

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15 February 1830

The Lyceum Theatre in London burned to the ground; Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband had left the theatre a few hours earlier after attending a performance.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
91

24 April 1932: Five hundred people, mostly male industrial...

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24 April 1932

Five hundred people, mostly male industrial workers, set out on what became known as the Kinder Scout trespass, claiming the public right to roam on privately-owned open land.
Hattersley, Roy. “The peak of protest”. Guardian Unlimited, 24 Apr. 2007.

September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...

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September 1998

Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books , aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Ochocka, Alice. “The Height of Spring”. Mslexia, No. 38, July 2008, p. 6.
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December 1922: Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her...

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December 1922

Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her post as a health visitor with Edmonton District Council , London, for telling mothers where to get birth control knowledge.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
257

1948: Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman...

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1948

Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Oxford when she took up the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations.
“Women at Oxford”. University of Oxford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Constance Smedley

Beginning early in the twentieth century, CS published forty books, about twenty of them novels and the rest plays, children's books, and non-fiction including a polemical feminist manifesto and a book of memoirs. Her writing...

September 1965: The United Nations Conference on Population...

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September 1965

The United Nations Conference on Population was held.
Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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By March 1756: Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings...

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By March 1756

Joseph Warton published An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 (1756): 226-40
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.

1831-1836: Charles Darwin's journey as naturalist on...

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1831-1836

Charles Darwin 's journey as naturalist on board The Beagle laid the foundation for his work on evolution.
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
343, 371
Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
146

1 February 1642: London women petitioned the House of Commons...

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1 February 1642

London women petitioned the House of Commons for peace; a second petition followed three days later.
McArthur, Ellen A. “Women, Petitions and the Long Parliament”. English Historical Review, Vol.
24
, 1909, p. 698.
698
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
141
Macaulay's biographer Bridget Hill mistakenly dates this petition 1641.

January-December 1865: Charles Kingsley's last novel Hereward the...

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January-December 1865

Charles Kingsley 's last novel Hereward the Wake, was serialised as Hereward, The Last of the English in Good Words.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
293, 335

22 May 1903: The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership...

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22 May 1903

The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership in New Zealand's legislative and executive councils.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 942

1838: The first Travelling Post Office (night trains...

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1838

The first Travelling Post Office (night trains on which mail was sorted in transit) was introduced between London and Liverpool.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
71
Webster, Ben. “Last post sounds end of the line for night mail”. Times, 16 June 2001, p. 3.
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September 1992: The Oxford and Cambridge Club in London rejected...

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September 1992

The Oxford and Cambridge Club in London rejected a motion to admit women as members instead of as lady associates: a majority of those voting were in favour, but not the required majority of...

14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...

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14 March 1856

A petition for Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32, 35
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
208
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
214

28 October 1651: N. Highmore in The History of Generation...

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28 October 1651

N. Highmore in The History of Generation argued that men's seed (sperm) was spiritualized & subtile, while women's was cruder and less digested, from a cruder matter, by lesse perfect Organs.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
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1957: A patent was filed in the USA for the artificial...

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1957

A patent was filed in the USA for the artificial sweetener Sweet'N Low (named after Tennyson 's line Sweet and low, sweet and low, which apostrophizes not a taste but a wind).
Lennon, J. Robert. “Tastes like Cancer”. London Review of Books, 8 Mar. 2007, pp. 41-2.
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5 July 1757: The London Lock Asylum (a home for reformed...

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5 July 1757

The LondonLock Asylum (a home for reformed prostitutes recently cured of venereal disease) admitted its first inmates.
Merians, Linda E. “The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 128-45.
139, 137, 140-1

October 1996: Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain...

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October 1996

Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain published her autobiography Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

10 January 1957: Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime...

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10 January 1957

Harold Macmillan (Conservative) became Prime Minister following Eden 's resignation over the Suez crisis (in which Britain, with France and Israel, invaded Egypt).
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
40
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 412

27 January 1872: The Woman, subtitled A Weekly Journal Embodying...

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27 January 1872

The Woman, subtitled A Weekly Journal Embodying Female Interests From an Educational, Social, and Domestic Point of View, began publication in London; it ended publication in July of the same year.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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By 14 June 1884: Walter Besant published Dorothy Forster,...

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By 14 June 1884

Walter Besant published Dorothy Forster, a historical romance, narrated by the title character.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2955 (1884): 756

8 November 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen or Roentgen of Germany discovered...

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8 November 1895

Wilhelm Röntgen or Roentgen of Germany discovered the x-ray.
Popular Science. Popular Science Publishing.
(February 1999): 10

1628: William Harvey published at Frankfurt Exercitatis...

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1628

William Harvey published at FrankfurtExercitatis Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.