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March 1877: The London School of Medicine for Women achieved...

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March 1877

The London School of Medicine for Women achieved an agreement for the use of hospital facilities.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Later 1866: Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay...

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Later 1866

Robert Williams Buchanan published an essay on Immorality in Authorship in the Fortnightly Review, and, under the pseudonym of Caliban in the Spectator, attacked Swinburne in a poem called The Session of the Poets.
Strevens, Adam. “Literature, Morality, and the Adversarial Principle: The Fleshly School of Poetry Quarrel and the trial of Lady Chatterleys LoverCritical Quarterly, Vol.
43
, No. 4, 2001, pp. 31-41.
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Buchanan, Robert Williams. “Immorality in Authorship”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.
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, 15 Sept. 1866, pp. 289-00.

3 November 1914: An agreement of alliance between the UK and...

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3 November 1914

An agreement of alliance between the UK and Kuwait gave assurance that the UK would recognize Kuwait as an independent principality under British protection.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 773

5 September 1944: Ten days after Paris was liberated from the...

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5 September 1944

Ten days after Paris was liberated from the occupying Nazis , Le Havre on the French coast was flattened by RAF bombing.
Saint, Andrew. “In Le Havre”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, p. 30.
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June 1908: The Women's Labour League established its...

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June 1908

The Women's Labour League established its first Scottish branch in Glasgow.
Gordon, Eleanor. Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914. Clarendon, 1991, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
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26 June 1764: Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known...

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26 June 1764

Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
2: 1197

1914: Margaret Louisa Woods's Collected Poems,...

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1914

Margaret Louisa Woods 's Collected Poems, containing lyrics and socially conscious poetry, was published by Bodley Head .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

21 November 1739: Not quite a month after Britain had declared...

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21 November 1739

Not quite a month after Britain had declared war on Spain, Admiral Edward Vernon (who had been allowed to sail months earlier) captured the Spanish stronghold of Porto Bello in Panama.
Wallace, Charles Harrison. “Porto Bello”. Monamy Website.

1821: In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta,...

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1821

In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta, a Factory was opened to house unemployed transported women.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
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April 1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina,...

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April 1960

At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Black students founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , or SNCC (pronounced snick) to coordinate protests against systemic racism.
“Six Years of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee”. SNCC 1960-1966.

26 November 1945: The film Brief Encounter, starring actress...

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26 November 1945

The film Brief Encounter, starring actress Celia Johnson , directed by David Lean , based on a play by Noël Coward , had its English premiere.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
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14 January 1896: The British public was first shown films:...

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14 January 1896

The British public was first shown films: by Birt Acres at the Royal Photographic Society headquarters at 14 Hanover Square, London.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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1 October 1935: At the Labour Party's annual conference Ernest...

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1 October 1935

At the Labour Party 's annual conference Ernest Bevin made a dramatic attack on the pacifist views of the leader, George Lansbury , who thereupon resigned.
Light, Alison. “Harnessed to a Shark”. London Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2002, pp. 29-31.
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Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
4: 345

June 1868: The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain...

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June 1868

The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain held the first aeronautical exhibition in history at the Crystal Palace, now south of London.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
115

Elizabeth Hooton

EH , the earliest of the female Quaker writers, left a printed prophecy, petition, and testimony, as well as a manuscript attack on colonial settlements in New England. Literary historian Phyllis Mack observes that...

13 April 1919: Troops under General Dyer fired into a protest...

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13 April 1919

Troops under General Dyer fired into a protest meeting in Amritsar of six thousand unarmed Indians; nearly four hundred were killed, and about 1,200 wounded in what became known as the Amritsar Massacre.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 839

1972: Anna Adams published her poetry pamphlet...

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1972

Anna Adams published her poetry pamphlet Memorial Tree, which was limited to 250 copies.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1833-1843: In 653 murder trials, approximately 10% of...

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1833-1843

In 653 murder trials, approximately 10% of defendents were found unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity or physial incapability.
Smith, Roger. “The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 363-84.
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Jessie Russell

JR was a Scottish working-class poet who published in periodicals and in a single volume, 1877. Her work evinces a strong sense of class identity and of incisive protest against the violence and hardship suffered...

3 May 1915: The League of Nations Society was founded...

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3 May 1915

The League of Nations Society was founded in London to study proposals to create a league of nations.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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1 March 1968: A new and more restrictive Commonwealth Immigration...

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1 March 1968

A new and more restrictive Commonwealth Immigration Act was passed, rushed through Parliament in three days as an emergency measure, and covertly designed to limit the influx of Asians into the UK from Kenya...

1797: Andrew Bell, a Scottish Anglican clergyman,...

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1797

Andrew Bell , a Scottish Anglican clergyman, published An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras. Suggesting a system by which a school or family may teach itself under the superintendence...

December 1898: The monthly London Society published its...

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December 1898

The monthly London Society published its final issue.
Cooke, Simon. “London Society”. The Victorian Web, 26 Mar. 2013.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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.

October 1913: The Central Board of Co-operative Union refused...

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October 1913

The Central Board of Co-operative Union refused to give the Women's Co-operative Guild its annual grant unless the Guild withdrew its support for divorce law reform.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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24 May 1799: Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened...

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24 May 1799

Pizarro by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane . An adaptation of Kotzebue 's melodrama about Peru, Pizarro voiced the anti-French feelings (fore-runners of anti-Napoleonic feelings) disturbing the English people at this time.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 2097-8, 2177-89