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April 1876: The British Women's Temperance Association...

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April 1876

The British Women's Temperance Association was founded at the national convention of the British Independent Order of the Good Templars in Newcastle.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
184
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. “’Changes Are Dangerous’: Women and Temperance in Victorian England”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 193-15.
204-6

Augusta Webster

AW wrote poetry, two novels (one for children), drama, and journalism, including book reviews and criticism, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Despite her translations from and imaginative interpretations of classical literature, her...
Augusta Webster This image of Augusta Webster is captioned "photographed by Ferrando, Roma". Turned three quarters to our right, she is wearing a black dress with a white frill collar, with her hair pulled back in a bun. Under the image her signature is reproduced.

1921: The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted...

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1921

The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted its first female member, Victoria Drummond , a god-daughter of Queen Victoria , who owed her start as an apprentice engineer to the First World War.
“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/.

1841: The Ladies' Diary, an annual almanac, ceased...

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1841

The Ladies' Diary, an annual almanac, ceased publication in London by merging with The Gentleman's Diary.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Louisa Catherine Shore

LCS was a poet writing primarily on public and national topics during the later nineteenth century. She published mostly in company with her sister Arabella , though her one verse-drama appeared alone.

30 June 1688: A letter was signed by national leaders inviting...

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30 June 1688

A letter was signed by national leaders inviting William of Orange to assume the throne of England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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October 1937: Sir William Coldstream founded the Euston...

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October 1937

Sir William Coldstream founded the Euston Road School of drawing and painting. The school promoted the idea of natural realism, focussing on observation and the use of the model, and moving away from abstraction.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
382
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
93

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

MAS , who issued her first publication in 1813, has period interest as an aesthetic theorist and a religious writer, an apologist for the French Jansenist movement connected with Port Royal , and later for...
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck Stipple engraving of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck by Fisher after a photograph by Henry Adlard, published 1858. She is sitting, wearing a tall, frilled cap and, it seems, both a shawl and a jacket over her dress. A scarf at her neckline has pinned to it a cross of the type called "cross pattée".

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Stanford, Peter. “How the Catholic Church Differs from Other Denominations”. BBC: Society and Culture: Religion and Ethics: Christianity: Subdivisions: The Catholic Church, pp. 1-3.
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22 January 1953: The Crucible, a play about the witch trials...

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22 January 1953

The Crucible, a play about the witch trials at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, by dramatist Arthur Miller , opened on stage in New York.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
22 January 2008

1825: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...

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1825

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his historical drama Boris Godunov.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
283, 446
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
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Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1580: Philip II acquired Portugal to add to the...

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1580

Philip II acquired Portugal to add to the possessions of the Spanish crown; Portugal and its overseas possessions remained Spanish until 1640.
Pagden, Anthony. “Great Expectations of Themselves”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 32-3.
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20 February 1946: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London,...

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20 February 1946

The Royal Opera House , Covent Garden, London, had its grand reopening after wartime closure. Margot Fonteyn performed with the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
396
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
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February 1715: The first elections of George I's reign returned...

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February 1715

The first elections of George I 's reign returned a sizeable Whig majority to the parliament summoned for 17 March.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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1880s: Artists, musicians, and writers were welcomed...

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1880s

Artists, musicians, and writers were welcomed into fashionable circles as never before.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
128-30

4 September 1936: Beryl Markham left Abingdon in England by...

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4 September 1936

Beryl Markham left Abingdon in England by plane, heading for Canada. She crash-landed on Cape Breton Island nearly twenty-four hours later, and so became the first person to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic...

June 1924: The National Union of Societies for Equal...

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June 1924

The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship argued that birth control information should be given out at government clinics.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
193

11 July 1815: The Stamp Act extended the coverage of Stamp...

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11 July 1815

The Stamp Act extended the coverage of Stamp Duty to include periodicals (previously distinguished from newspapers), and raised the tax by a halfpenny to fourpence a sheet.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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1989: US theorist Judith Butler published perhaps...

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1989

US theorist Judith Butler published perhaps her best-known work, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Elizabeth Cellier

The small but significant literary output of seventeenth-century midwife EC amounts to three pamphlets on topical religious, medical, and gender issues, notably including the attempt to establish midwifery as a profession parallel to the male...

1977: Saint Lucia became independent from Brit...

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1977

Saint Lucia became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
249

May 1839: The New Zealand Company was founded with...

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May 1839

The New Zealand Company was founded with the purpose of colonizing New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
939-40
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1865: William Lecky published his popular History...

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1865

William Lecky published his popular History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Lady Eleanor Douglas

The known tracts and prophecies of LED (formerly Davies), published during the long political crisis of the mid seventeenth century, numbered at last count 69 extant texts and 77 including those which have apparently not...

22 June 1941: Romania under its King Michael or Mihai joined...

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22 June 1941

Romania under its King Michael or Mihai joined the German side in the Second World War, in pursuit of its enmity with the USSR and at the prompting of a Nazi military mission which had...