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9 December 1655: Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting...

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9 December 1655

Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting Jewish resettlement in England. The Jews had been expelled in 1290, though individuals had now been living in England unofficially for more than a century.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
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Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Alderman, Geoffrey. “Face to Faith”. The Guardian, 31 Dec. 2005, p. 29.
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1511: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1511

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed St John's College, Cambridge.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
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Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
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1891: The first ever nurses' registration bill...

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1891

The first ever nurses' registration bill was passed in Cape Colony.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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1988: In one of many collaborations, Norman Adams...

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1988

In one of many collaborations, Norman Adams illustrated his wife Anna 's poetry for Angels of Soho.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1835: Ann Fraser-Tytler's children's novel Mary...

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1835

Ann Fraser-Tytler 's children's novel Mary and Florence; or, Grave and Gay was anonymously published at London.
Hesselink, Sebastiaan S., and Agnes M. L. Kerssemakers. The Children’s World of Learning 1480 - 1880. Antiquariaat Forum, 2002, 3 vols.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1636: Charles I set up the New Incorporation of...

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1636

Charles I set up the New Incorporation of Westminster, giving autonomy and status to the court suburb of Westminster to balance that of the City Corporation (of London).
Saint, Andrew. “Aldermanic Depression”. London Review of Books, 4 Feb. 1999, pp. 19-21.
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1891: The weekly magazine Hearth and Home began...

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1891

The weekly magazine Hearth and Home 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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23 March 1945: Field-Marshal Montgomery led Allied troops...

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23 March 1945

Field-Marshal Montgomery led Allied troops across the Rhine in a large-scale invasion that became known as Operation Plunder.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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1884: The Dublin Red Cross Nursing Sisters founded...

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1884

The Dublin Red Cross Nursing Sisters founded a House and Training School for Nurses , primarily aimed towards gentlwomen.
Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
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June 1866: The Lancet ran a debate about whether clitoridectomy...

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June 1866

The Lancet ran a debate about whether clitoridectomy cured female epilepsy.
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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1941: Women were still excluded from joining the...

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1941

Women were still excluded from joining the Society of Compositors .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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January 1939: The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared...

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January 1939

The IRA (Irish Republican Army) declared war on Britain in protest against the continuing partition of Ireland. A hundred bombing incidents followed.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
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1933: The businessman Frank Pick succeeded in bringing...

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1933

The businessman Frank Pick succeeded in bringing together the many privately-owned underground railway lines in London under the management of a body to be called London Transport .
Saint, Andrew. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 40-1.
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Taylor, Sheila, and Oliver Green. The Moving Metropolis: a History of London’s Transport since 1800. Laurence King, 2001.

19 April 1710: Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting...

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19 April 1710

Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting London, had an audience with Queen Anne .
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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5 July 2007: Odile Crick, British-born artist who becme...

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5 July 2007

Odile Crick , British-born artist who becme famous for her sketch of the structure of DNA, died at her home in California.
“Odile Crick”. The Independent: Obituaries, 20 July 2007.

September 1854: The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by...

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September 1854

The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by the Russians they had come to make war with. They went on to lay siege to Sebastopol that October and to win important victories at Balaklava (25...

1624: An Act covering England and Wales was passed...

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1624

An Act covering England and Wales was passed to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard children.
May, Allyson N. “’She at first denied it’: Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 19-49.
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April-May 1839: The Chartist Llanidloes riots took place,with...

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April-May 1839

The Chartist Llanidloes riots took place,with significant participation by women.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation. Verso, 1993.
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27 June 2017: Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion...

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27 June 2017

Facebook recorded that it had reached 2 billion monthly users.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.
Titcomb, James. “Facebook now has 2 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg announces”. The Telegraph, 27 June 2017.

17 September 1792: When the legislature of Upper Canada first...

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17 September 1792

When the legislature of Upper Canada first met, at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), the Lieutenant-Governor,John Graves Simcoe proposed a method for ending slavery in the colony.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.

1-14 June 1914: Militant suffragettes drew attention to their...

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1-14 June 1914

Militant suffragettes drew attention to their cause with several acts of violence; they burned down a sixteenth-century church at Wargrave and set off bombs at Westminster Abbey (near the Coronation Chair), and at St George's...

19 December 1783: George III invited William Pitt the younger,...

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19 December 1783

George III invited William Pitt the younger, Tory leader, to form the government; Pitt 's previous ministry had been defeated on a vote in the House of Lords .
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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Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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1540: Robert Jonas translated and published The...

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1540

Robert Jonas translated and published The Birth of Mankind, the earliest in a long line of popular books in English about human reproduction.
Hobby, Elaine. “’Some Things more Material to be Known’: Reading Some Books for the Recovery Project”. Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Salzman, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 12-32.
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1906: Night shift work for women was internationally...

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1906

Night shift work for women was internationally forbidden.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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1965: The Migraine Trust was set up to fund specialist...

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1965

The Migraine Trust was set up to fund specialist migraine clinics and research, and to raise awareness.
“About The Migraine Trust”. The Migraine Trust, June 2003.