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13 March 1881

Tsar Alexander II was assasinated in St Petersburg by a member of a Nihilist terrorist faction led by Sophia Perovskaya; his son Alexander III succeeded him.

Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.

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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.

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9 July 1816

The port city of Buenos Aires formally declared its independence from Spain, which it had been striving for since the upheaval of the Peninsular War. A constitution for a federal nation of Argentina did not...

28 February 1712

The Whig physician-poet Sir Richard Blackmore published his best-known work, the physico-theologicalCreation: a Philosophical Poem. Its grandiose style was praised by some respected critics of the day, but scorned by Pope and his...

July 1984

The Warnock Report, published in London, addressed issues in new reproductive technologies (NRT) after the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown , in July 1978.

Franklin, Sarah, and Jeanette et al Edwards. “Making Representations: the Parliamentary Debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act”. Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception, Manchester University Press, 1993, pp. 96-131.

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Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.

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Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.

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Bennett, Catherine. “Why Warnock’s law no longer delivers”. The Guardian, 25 July 2002, p. G2 5.

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.

17 May 1880

Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party .

Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.

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21 December 1988

A plane belonging to Pan Am (also known as Pan Am World Airways) was blown apart by a bomb, killing the 259 passengers and crew on board, plus eleven on the ground in the small...

5 January 1907

Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (who died of bronchitis on 30 December 1906) became the last person laid to rest at Westminster Abbey.

“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1735

The earliest Watch Act established a nightly force of watchmen and beadles to police London; a series of further Acts set out to improve on the first one.

Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.

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31 October 1909

Karen Danielsen , still a student but later famous as a psychologist, married Oskar Horney.

Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.

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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.

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1796

Another Watch Act extended the London night-time peace-keeping force to sixty-four watchmen, plus beadles, inspectors, constables, and further reinforcements for the winter months only.

Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.

1 January 2007

Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union (with the lowest per capita incomes among its membership), bringing it to a total of twenty-seven member states and half a billion citizens.

“Romania and Bulgaria join the EU”. BBC News, 1 Jan. 2007.

4 January 1894

Lady Henry Somerset and Annie E. Holdsworth published in London the first issue of the Woman's Signal, a weekly magazine addressing temperance issues, and also broader topics such as suffrage, working conditions, and domestic...

1800

Nicolas-Louis Robert , a Frenchman, invented a machine for making continuous-roll paper for printing.

Norris, F. H. Paper and Paper Making. Oxford University Press, 1952.

6 April 1757

William Pitt was dismissed from office as Secretary of State.

Black, Jeremy. Pitt the Elder. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Brown, Peter Douglas. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the Great Commoner. Allen and Unwin, 1978.

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4 November 1979

A crowd of Islamic militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took hostages including more than sixty diplomatic staff.

“1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran”. BBC News: On This Day, 4 Nov. 1979.

1875-1878

The Royal Commission on Copyright was formed to consolidate domestic and international copyright law.

Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.

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Whitaker, David. “Heresy!”. The Author, Vol.

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1926

Les Cents Unes , a women's book club (whose name means literally the hundred female ones), was founded in France.

Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.

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6 May 1791

The Canada Act mediated between English and French Canadians and gave the country's present name its first general currency.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.

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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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Beryl Bainbridge

By 2001 BB had published sixteen novels, written in an almost bald style which exploits her satiric eye for ordinary domestic life and for unexpected melodramatic interruptions of it. Many of her later novels are...

28 February 1638

At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...

8 August 1887

The Probation of First Offenders Act was passed.

Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.

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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1764

There was published An Authentic Narrative of some . . . Particulars in the Life of [John Newton], an autobiography in which the ex-slave-trader Newton expressed penitence for his pre-conversion, sinful life.

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.

By 1820

Great Britain had over 300 newspapers in circulation, more than 25 of them in Scotland.

Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.

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4 March 1817

As in 1794 (another time of fermenting political dissatisfaction) the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended as part of a package of anti-radical legislation.

Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.

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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

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1974

The National Health Service accepted responsibility for family planning clinics and the Family Planning Association started to hand over its established network of more than a thousand clinics.

Jones, Elise F. Pregnancy, Contraception and Family Planning in Industrialized Countries: A Study of the Alan Guttmacher Insitute. Yale University Press, 1989.

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Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.

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28 February 1638

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