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22 February 1858: Dion Boucicault's Jessie Brown; or The Relief...

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22 February 1858

Dion Boucicault 's Jessie Brown; or The Relief of Lucknow was first performed at Wallack's Theatre , New York.
Boucicault, Dion. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Plays, edited by Peter Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
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1856: Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des...

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1856

Jean-Martin Charcot became the Médecin des Hôspitaux de Paris at La Salpêtrière .
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.
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1951: Peter Owen founded his own publishing company...

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1951

Peter Owen founded his own publishing company in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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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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1902: It was announced that Britain was free of...

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1902

It was announced that Britain was free of rabies for the first time.
Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate : The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harvard University Press, 1987.
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10 December 1962: Max Ferdinand Perutz and Sir John Cowdery...

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10 December 1962

Max Ferdinand Perutz and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the structures of globular proteins.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
Tucker, Anthony. “Obituary: Max Perutz”. Guardian Weekly, 21–27 Feb. 2002, p. 22.
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July 1837: Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels...

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July 1837

Leigh Hunt published Blue-Stocking Revels in the Monthly Repository, New Series volume 11: a traditional Sessions of the Poets poem, with Apollo pronouncing on (here) contemporary women writers.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
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Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999.
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April 1894: The aesthetic quarterly the Yellow Book began...

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April 1894

The aesthetic quarterly the Yellow Book began publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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.

8 February 1872: The Viceroy of India (Lord Mayo) was murdered...

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8 February 1872

The Viceroy of India (Lord Mayo ) was murdered by convict Shere Ali while visiting Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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January 1849-April 1851: Robert Smith Surtees' fox-hunting novel Mr...

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January 1849-April 1851

Robert Smith Surtees ' fox-hunting novel Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour was serialised in the New Monthly Magazine; it appeared in one volume in 1853.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

25 April 2004: Thom Gunn, poet and critic, died at the age...

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25 April 2004

Thom Gunn , poet and critic, died at the age of seventy-four.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.

5 March 1856: Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by f...

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5 March 1856

Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire.
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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November 1961: The drug Thalidomide was withdrawn from sale...

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November 1961

The drug Thalidomide was withdrawn from sale in Britain: taken in pregnancy, it had produced an increasing wave of birth defects.
Kirkey, Sharon. “The rehabilitation of a hated drug”. Edmonton Journal, 7 May 2000, pp. E8 - E9.
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Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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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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By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...

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By September 1735

The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
Zeitz, Lisa M. “Constructing the Past, Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 201-13.
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Isak Dinesen

ID , cosmopolitan fiction-writer of the mid twentieth century writing in Danish and English, produced short stories in periodicals and collections, a couple of novels, and two highly unusual books about Africa in which the...
Isak Dinesen Black and white photograph of Isak Dinesen. She is shown from the shoulders up, and she wears a fur stole and fur hat, with pearl earrings.

1907: Over a million immigrants landed in the United...

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1907

Over a million immigrants landed in the United States this year; more than 80% of them were new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, largely Jews and Catholics.
Kennedy, David. “Leur Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 24-5.
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Louisa Stuart Costello

LSC wrote during the first half of the nineteenth century, producing five travel narratives, several volumes of poetry (both original and translated), numerous historical biographies, and more than twenty-five articles for a variety of noted...
Louisa Stuart Costello Sepia-toned albumen print of Louisa Stuart Costello by Herbert Watkins, 1857. She sits on a carved chair, gazing thoughtfully to her left, with her right hand up to her neckline. Her hair is in ringlets in front and decorated with bows. She wears a dark dress with ruffles descending the sleeves, and a white lace collar. National Portrait Gallery.

1985: Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother...

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1985

Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother in Britain.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

16 December 1926: An agreement was announced between New Zealand...

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16 December 1926

An agreement was announced between New Zealand and the UK giving settlers large reductions in the cost of passage.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 947

23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...

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23 July 1637

The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I 's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Early July 1942: The German invasion of the Crimea was completed...

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Early July 1942

The German invasion of the Crimea was completed with the fall of Sevastopol.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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1863: Parliament passed legislation allotting salaries...

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1863

Parliament passed legislation allotting salaries to Roman Catholic prison chaplains.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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July 1975: The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased...

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July 1975

The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased publication after a hundred and fifteen years in print.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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.

21 October 1958: The Life Peerages Act expanded the House...

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21 October 1958

The Life Peerages Act expanded the House of Lords to include, as well as holders of hereditary titles, public figures honoured with life peerages which would not descend to their children.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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United Kingdom Parliament. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/.
“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/.
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January 1800: The British Magazine, a leading conservative...

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January 1800

The British Magazine, a leading conservative periodical, began publication.
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.

1972: E-mail, based on programmes developed by...

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1972

E-mail, based on programmes developed by Ray Tomlinson , was incorporated into ARPAnet. Tomlinson inaugurated the name-and-domain name convention, which, despite contentions, became widely adopted in the eighties as e-mail use proliferated.
Moschovitis, Christos et al. History of the Internet. ABC-CLIO, 1999.
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“’Lo’ and behold! The internet turns 35”. CBC Health and Science News, 29 Oct. 2004.