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1919: The Women's Engineering Society was founded....

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1919

The Women's Engineering Society was founded. Its first secretary was electrical engineer Caroline Haslett , who went on to found the Electrical Association for Women in 1924.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
prelims
“About WES - who we are”. Women’s Engineering Society.

1848: Margaret Knight, age ten, invented a stop-motion...

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1848

Margaret Knight , age ten, invented a stop-motion device for use in textile mills to prevent shuttles sliding out of looms and injuring workers; despite its popularity, she never patented it.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
128

8 December 1868: The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo...

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8 December 1868

The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo first appeared, under the editorship of Arthur Arnold , providing both news and opinion.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. English Newspapers. Russell and Russell, 1966, 2 vols.
2: 275

1960: The Royal Shakespeare Company was established...

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1960

The Royal Shakespeare Company was established under director Peter Hall : it began with a spring and summer season in Stratford upon Avon, then a winter season at the Aldwych Theatre , London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
417

1886: Annie Leigh Browne, Caroline Biggs and others...

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1886

Annie Leigh Browne , Caroline Biggs and others formed the Local Electors Association to support a woman candidate for a vestry position.
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
317-18

: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...

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Spring 1729

Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

By 16 December 1871: Lewis Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass...

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By 16 December 1871

Lewis Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (generally known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2303 (1871): 787

17 July 1837: The Offences Against the Person Act re-stated...

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17 July 1837

The Offences Against the Person Act re-stated that abortion was illegal in England, Wales, and Ireland; it made no distinction between abortion before and after the quickening of the foetus.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
495-6

2 October 1733: The General Evening Post was launched as...

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2 October 1733

The General Evening Post was launched as a thrice-weekly newspaper: one of four papers which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
154-5, 157, 159-61
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.

27 July 1954: The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo...

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27 July 1954

The elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmàn , resigned, following an invasion by a Liberation Army under the direction of the CIA .
Streeter, Stephen M. “Interpreting the 1954 U. S. Intervention in Guatemala: Realist, Revisionist, and Postrevisionist Perspectives”. The History Teacher, Vol.
34
, No. 1, Nov. 2000.

6 August 1814: Byron published Lara, the third of three...

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6 August 1814

Byron published Lara, the third of three narrative poems in little more than a year which served to establish the image of the Byronic hero.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 203, 214
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 August 2008

1900: Mark Aurel Stein made the first of two expeditions...

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1900

Mark Aurel Stein made the first of two expeditions to Central Asia, which resulted in his discovery of ancient paper documents near the ancient city of Dunhuang in Chinese Turkestan.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
124, 2
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
3: 2841

1726: Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary...

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1726

Guy's Hospital was opened as a voluntary hospital alongside St Thomas's Hospital ; the two United Hospitals of the Borough [of Southwark] jointly undertook medical teaching.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277

7 May 1839: A petition for universal suffrage with 1,280,000...

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7 May 1839

A petition for universal suffrage with 1,280,000 signatures was given to Thomas Attwood and John Fielden to be presented, next month, to Parliament.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
39
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
120, 376

19 September 1819: Keats, walking in the fields near Winchester,...

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19 September 1819

Keats , walking in the fields near Winchester, composed his Ode to Autumn.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
426
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
320 and n1

Ariadne

The unidentified, seventeenth-century playwright Ariadne is notable for writing—and getting staged—at least one delightful, feminist-inflected comedy.

1909: The Irish Women's Suffrage Society was formed...

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1909

The Irish Women's Suffrage Society was formed in Belfast; it had Unionist leanings.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
42
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
283
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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1752: The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against...

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1752

The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
93-4, 95

1957: Valentine, with romantic comics directed...

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1957

Valentine, with romantic comics directed towards lower-class teenagers, began publication from Fleetway Publications Limited of London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
174
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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1862: By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford...

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1862

By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford attended the Prince of Wales on his trip to the Near East.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
73

9 January 1823: John Thurtell was executed for the murder...

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9 January 1823

John Thurtell was executed for the murder of William Weare after media coverage which has made this seem the first trial by newspaper.
Clark, Lorna J. “Review of Mary Shelley, The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume III, Betty Bennett, editor”. TEXT, Vol.
8
, 1995, pp. 435-44.
441

Mabel Birchenough

MB  published three novels and a guide book between 1885 and 1901. She also frequently contributed literary articles to Nineteenth Century.

Marianne Moore

MM was a pivotal figure in US poetry of the twentieth century. A recent editor has written that no major poet is cherished more and known less from that period in America.
Moore, Marianne. “Introduction”. The Poems of Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, Faber, 2003, p. xix - xxx.
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As well...
Marianne Moore Black and white photograph of Marianne Moore, standing against a bookshelf. Her grey hair is in a plait round her head; she wears a large dark jacket over a grey suit, collared shirt, and bow-tie.

13 January 1942: The first practical single-rotor helicopter...

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13 January 1942

The first practical single-rotor helicopter was flown by Igor Sikorsky . This inaugurated the modern helicopter age.
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. Aviation: An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
250
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
239

May 1846: A magazine called The Art Union published...

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May 1846

A magazine called The Art Union published a calotype photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot ; this involved printing about 7,000 photographs from several negatives and hand-pasting them into copies.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
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