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1281: A City of London Regulation prohibited pigs...

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1281

A City of London Regulation prohibited pigs wandering in the streets. A further Regulation in 1297 required the removal of all pigsties from city streets.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

1871: The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous...

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1871

The New Chelsea Theatre (opened the previous year) became known as the Royal Court Theatre .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
284

February 1993: Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson...

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February 1993

Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson and Jon Venables , were convicted of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
515

8 March 1973: An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in...

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8 March 1973

An IRA car-bomb outside the Old Bailey in London caused widespread destruction and temporarily paralysed the City.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
234
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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27 April 1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become...

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27 April 1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar united to become Tanzania.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
261
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
696, 698

Margaret Bryan

MB was a leading educator and populariser of science: a schoolteacher who published three standard scientific textbooks during the early nineteenth century and the final years of the eighteenth. She also created or advised on...
Margaret Bryan Stipple engraving of Margaret Bryan with her two daughters by William Nutter from a painting by Samuel Shelley, used as frontispiece to Bryan's first book, "A Compendious System of Astronomy", 1797. It shows Bryan with a telescope and celestial globe behind her, measuring instruments on a table, and her pen in hand, wearing a dark gown , white shift, and white turban. Her hair is long and curled.

1554: Juana of Austria, sister of Philip II of...

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1554

Juana of Austria , sister of Philip II of Spain, was secretly accepted into the Jesuit order under the false name Mateo Sanchez.
Padberg, John. “Secret, Perilous Project: A Woman Jesuit”. Company Magazine.
Wright, Jonathan. God’s Soldiers. Doubleday, 2004.
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10 August 1842: Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal...

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10 August 1842

Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal for women, girls, and boys under ten years old to work underground.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
265
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
164, 381-2
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Baron Ashley , later the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, was a champion of...

21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...

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21 March 1853

The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough a classically misogynist letter about women writers, their works and their looks.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 March 2008

21 April 1910: Mark Twain (or Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died...

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21 April 1910

Mark Twain (or Samuel Langhorn Clemens ) died in Redding, Connecticut.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1759: Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem...

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1759

Josiah Wedgwood leased a pottery at Burslem in Staffordshire (where he had begun as a worker twenty years before), and began production.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
623
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

2 July 1912: King George V was present at the first Royal...

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2 July 1912

King George V was present at the first Royal Command Variety Performance at the Palace Theatre in London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
347

4 September 1941: German troops laid siege to Leningrad (now...

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4 September 1941

German troops laid siege to Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
63
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
197-8
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
271

1676: A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea,...

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1676

A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea, near London, put on a production of Beauties Triumph, a masque by Thomas Duffett with music by John Banister .
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
137
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
258-9

June 1973: The so-called cod war broke out between Britain...

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June 1973

The so-called cod war broke out between Britain and Iceland, caused by increasing national competitiveness over depleted fishing stocks.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
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After about 1760: The term middle class began increasingly...

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After about 1760

The term middle class began increasingly to be used for that section of society formerly known as the middle ranks or middling sort.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
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1888: Croatian-born inventor Nikola Tesla first...

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1888

Croatian-born inventor Nikola Tesla first introduced the idea of the electric motor in a paper (A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers) given before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers .
Vujovic, Ljubo. “Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World”. Tesla Memorial Society of New York: Tesla Biography.

4 May 1813: Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury,...

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4 May 1813

Ann Moore , the fasting woman of Tutbury, signed her mark to a confession that she had not, as claimed, lived for long periods entirely without nourishment.
A Full Exposure of Ann Moore: The Pretended Fasting Woman of Tutbury. 3rd, with additions, Printed for the author and sold by R. Baldwin and T. Wayte, 1813.
22, 3-4, 19-20
Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
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14 May 1925: The National Book Council was formed by members...

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14 May 1925

The National Book Council was formed by members of the Publishers' Circle and the Society of Bookmen to promote reading and book-distribution.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
177
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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: John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen...

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Autumn 1706

John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen Swiny , appointing Swiny to manage the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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7 September 1822: An article in the Manchester Guardian commented...

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7 September 1822

An article in the Manchester Guardian commented on the revolution in communications brought about by steam power at sea, with a weekly service between London and Rotterdam keeping almost perfect time.
The Manchester Guardian.
7 September 1822

About 1950: A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented...

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About 1950

A post-war period of prosperity and unprecedented growth rates settled in throughout the developed world. In Britain the transformation from postwar austerity was gradual but marked. These conditions lasted until the crisis over oil prices...

1-9 May 1908: In Muzaffarpur, India, a bomb blast killed...

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1-9 May 1908

In Muzaffarpur, India, a bomb blast killed two British women and their coachman; subsequent police raids revealed existence of a revolutionary plot, and thirty people were arrested.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 835
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
903

5 January 1895: The Lancet published a feature on an anorectic...

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5 January 1895

The Lancet published a feature on an anorectic who had died from her emaciated condition; the article was accompanied by a sketch of a skeletal, topless young woman. This is considered the first reported death...

March 1760: A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's...

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March 1760

A Reverend Mr Hanbury published in the Gentleman's Magazine his plan for a public library in the comparatively small town of Church Langton in Leicestershire.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 145