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24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...

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24 January 1824

The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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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.

By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...

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By 22 May 1755

George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
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Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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30 October 1779: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd by Richard...

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30 October 1779

The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd by Richard Brinsley Sheridan opened at Drury Lane Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 292

Alison Cockburn

AC did not publish, and much of her writing is probably lost. She won a place in literary history with her composition of a popular mournful song or ballad, to an old Scottish tune. Most...
Alison Cockburn 1097 reproduction of Joshua Reynolds's 1773 painting of Alison Cockburn and her three eldest sons, with a parrot in the background.

April 2005: Béa González, Spanish-born Canadian novelist,...

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April 2005

Béa González , Spanish-born Canadian novelist, published her second novel, the magic-realist The Mapmaker's Opera, set in late nineteenth-century Spain and Mexico. Her first was The Bitter Taste of Time, 1998.
Canton, Jeffrey. “Reviews. The Mapmaker’s Opera by Béa Gonzalez”. Quill and Quire, Apr. 2005.
“Playwrights. Victor Kazan”. doollee.com.

1697-9: In a decade including too many lean years,...

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1697-9

In a decade including too many lean years, Scotland was devastated by famine: the last one to occur on the British mainland, though conditions were bad again in Scotland in 1783-4.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
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1847: Professor James Young Simpson first used...

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1847

Professor James Young Simpson first used chloroform to aid a woman in childbirth in London.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
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By 1866: Female pre-millennialist preachers abounded;...

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By 1866

Female pre-millennialist preachers abounded; middle-class women spoke urgently to large assemblies about the second coming of Christ.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
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15 January 1942: Japan invaded Burma, which was then part...

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15 January 1942

Japan invaded Burma, which was then part of the British Empire.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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2 April 1783: The Duke of Portland formed a coalition ...

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2 April 1783

The Duke of Portland formed a coalition government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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1637: Pierre Corneille's French classical tragedy...

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1637

Pierre Corneille 's French classical tragedy Le Cid was staged in London and translated into English.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

10 December 1927: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson from Great Britain...

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10 December 1927

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson from Great Britain and Arthur Holly Compton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

Christmas Day 1657: John Evelyn was at morning Communion service...

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Christmas Day 1657

John Evelyn was at morning Communion service in a private chapel in London's Covent Garden area, when the whole congregation was rounded up by Puritan soldiers angry at such Christmas observance.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
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31 May 1844: Natal was annexed to the Cape Colony....

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31 May 1844

Natal was annexed to the Cape Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...

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By October 1754

Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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March 1688: Renewed persecution of Protestants or Huguenots...

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March 1688

Renewed persecution of Protestants or Huguenots in France caused many to come as refugees to England.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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1865: The Society of Female Artists changed its...

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1865

The Society of Female Artists changed its mandate from providing juried exhibitions of members' work to a less professionally-oriented charitable focus.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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1766: A pornographic work masquerading as a novel...

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1766

A pornographic work masquerading as a novel was published: Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown.
London, April. “Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 213-27.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

8 January 1815: The battle of New Orleans was fought between...

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8 January 1815

The battle of New Orleans was fought between the British and the Americans, the last in the war of 1812.
Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2nd ed., Jane’s, 1986.
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21 September 1745: Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with...

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21 September 1745

Highland Jacobite soldiers (armed not with guns but with the claymore or great sword) inflicted their only, bloody defeat on government forces at the battle of Prestonpans in East Lothian.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...

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September 1998

Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded Persephone Books , aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Ochocka, Alice. “The Height of Spring”. Mslexia, No. 38, July 2008, p. 6.
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1848: A Defence Fund was established to cover legal...

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1848

A Defence Fund was established to cover legal costs for imprisoned Chartists.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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1826: William Saunders and Edward John Otley established...

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1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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1820: William Cecil, an English cleric, built a...

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1820

William Cecil , an English cleric, built a hydrogen-using internal combustion engine and demonstrated it to the Cambridge Philosophical Society .
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1 April 1843: Thomas Babington Macaulay published Critical...

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1 April 1843

Thomas Babington Macaulay published Critical and Historical Essays.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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