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3 June 2006: Following a May referendum on statehood,...

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3 June 2006

Following a May referendum on statehood, the Montenegrin Parliament proclaimed the independence of the Republic of Montenegro.
Government of the Republic of Montenegro. http://web.archive.org/web/20090628194131/http://www.vlada.cg.yu/eng/index.php.
“List of Member States”. United Nations.

1896: This year is the earliest on record of women...

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1896

This year is the earliest on record of women working in radiography.
Witz, Anne. “Patriarchal Relations and Patterns of Sex Segregation in the Medical Division of Labour”. Gender Segregation at Work, edited by Sylvia Walby, Open University Press, 1988, pp. 74-90.
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31 January 1974: The three Marias, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria...

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31 January 1974

The three Marias, Maria Isabel Barreno , Maria Teresa Horta , and Maria Velha da Costa , were charged in a Lisbon court for publishing in 1972 a book deemed to be pornographic: an...

24 April 1990: The US space shuttle launched the Hubble...

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24 April 1990

The US space shuttle launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit round the earth, to gather astronomical and other data which had previously been unavailable.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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1983: Penelope Gilliatt's novel Mortal Matters,...

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1983

Penelope Gilliatt 's novel Mortal Matters, published this year, is based on her childhood in the shipbuilding and coalmining region of Northumberland.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1785: Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton)...

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1785

Dr George Gregory (friend of Elizabeth Hamilton ) published with Joseph JohnsonEssays Historical and Moral, which expresses feminist and reforming sentiments.
Robinson, Shareen. Revolutionary Novels. University of New South Wales, 2000.
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29 November 1947: The United Nations passed a resolution which...

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29 November 1947

The United Nations passed a resolution which called for the partition of Palestine into two different national entities, one Arab and one Jewish, with Jerusalem to become a city under international rule.
Ovendale, Ritchie. The Longman Companion to the Middle East since 1914. Longman, 1992.
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Butler, Judith. “‘I merely belong to them’”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 26-8.
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1872: Swansea Training College in South Wales was...

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1872

Swansea Training College in South Wales was established as a teacher-training college for women. Welshwomen wishing to attend such colleges had previously been compelled to travel to England.
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
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“Swansea Teacher Training College”. Friends Reunited.

1840s: Advertisers packed London streets with large...

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1840s

Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.
Fenstermaker, John J. “Thomas Carlyle, Popular Advertising, and the Commerical Spirit in Victorian England”. Studies in Popular Culture, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-36.
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July-December 1848: Charles Kingsley's first novel, Yeast, A...

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July-December 1848

Charles Kingsley 's first novel, Yeast, A Problem, appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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February 1940: Woman Today ended publication in London....

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February 1940

Woman Today ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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1651: Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises...

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1651

Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Louisa Baldwin

Over the course of her writing career (during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth), LB published four novels, two collections of children's stories, one collection of gothic ghost stories...
Louisa Baldwin Photograph of a painting of Louisa Baldwin by Edward Poynter. The background (patterned wallpaper, a painting on the wall, ornaments) is mostly blue. She sits in a carved black chair, wearing a simple black dress with four strands of blue beads around her neck, and a paper fan clasped in her hands.

January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...

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January 1853

Following Napoleon III 's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo , English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Margaret Gatty

MG was a popular and influential children's writer (of fiction and a famous periodical) and scientific writer in the mid-nineteenth century. She began by publishing a biography of her father. Apart from her writings she...
Margaret Gatty Faded sepia head-and-shoulders photo of Margaret Gatty in profile. Her smooth hair is gathered at the nape of her neck and her eyes cast down. Her dress is dark, with lace at the collar and bust, and she wears drop earrings.

1885: Nina Kennard contributed a volume on the...

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1885

Nina Kennard contributed a volume on the famous actress Rachel (real name Elisa Félix) to the Eminent Women Series.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...

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1899

Clara Barton , founder of the American Red Cross , became the first woman to make a submarine descent.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1893: An anonymous imprint of the homoerotic novel...

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1893

An anonymous imprint of the homoerotic novel Teleny, in which Oscar Wilde likely had a hand, was published in London by Leonard Smithers .
Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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6 April 1752: The Dutch arrived at the Cape of Good Hope...

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6 April 1752

The Dutch arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and began settlement there.
Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott. The Cape of Good Hope 1652-1833. J. L. Van Schaik, 1956.
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8 July 1644: William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle,...

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8 July 1644

William Cavendish (then Marquess of Newcastle , later husband of Margaret Cavendish ), commander-in-chief of royalist forces in England, landed in Hamburg in Germany.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Father of two women writers, he was shortly to marry a third.

1862: London Society, a cheap imitation of Cornhill...

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1862

London Society, a cheap imitation of Cornhill Magazine, began publication, with lavish illustrations and low-grade fiction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

RPJ has been successful in two careers: as a novelist (a dozen titles) and short-story writer (eight collections), and as an author of film scripts (twenty-three), many of them adaptations from published fiction.
Watts, Janet. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Obituary”. The Guardian, 3 Apr. 2013.
The two...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Colour photo of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala at the home of her frequent collaborator, director James Ivory, in Claverack, New York, September 1981. She is wearring a tweed blazer and has her hands in her pockets. She is standing in a park in fall, and the sky is blue with many clouds. The are birch trees in the background are bare.

1881: The weekly Lady's Pictorial magazine began...

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1881

The weekly Lady's Pictorial magazine began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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1994: Juggernaut was set up as a small New York...

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1994

Juggernaut was set up as a small New York theatre company; in 2001 it decided to publicise the work of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women playwrights.
Goreau, Angeline. “These Women Seduced By Wit”. New York Times, 9 Mar. 2003, p. Section 2: 7.

July 1946: The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals...

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July 1946

The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals indicated that the state (the universities' main source of funding) should ensure that the universities functioned in the national interest.
Historian George F. Kneller sees this as particularly significant...