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29 March 1779: The American Congress recommended that in...

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29 March 1779

The American Congress recommended that in view of a shortage of white soldiers, a force of 3,000 negroes be raised in South Carolina and Georgia.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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7 March 1936: Hitler marched into and appropriated the...

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7 March 1936

Hitler marched into and appropriated the Rhineland: neither France nor Britain opposed him.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
6: 19 and n4
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Editors Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-Green, Virago, 1988.
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23 February 1852: The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley, formed...

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23 February 1852

The Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley , formed a conservative minority government.
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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Parry, Jonathan. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

10 December 1954: Britain's Max Born, with Walter Bothe of...

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10 December 1954

Britain's Max Born , with Walter Bothe of Germany, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for research in quantum mechanics; American Linus Pauling was awarded the prize in Chemistry, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

By 14 April 1561: Sir Thomas Hoby's The Courtyer, translated...

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By 14 April 1561

Sir Thomas Hoby 's The Courtyer, translated from Baldassare Castiglione 's Il Cortegiano, was entered at the Stationers' Company ; it was published the same year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

12 March 1733: George Lyttelton published a poem entitled...

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12 March 1733

George Lyttelton published a poem entitled Advice to a Lady.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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22 June 1775: The American Continental Congress resolved...

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22 June 1775

The American Continental Congress resolved to issue $2,000,000 in bills of credit: the first continental currency.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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By 18 September 1820: A nationwide campaign of women petitioning...

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By 18 September 1820

A nationwide campaign of women petitioning on behalf of Queen Caroline was one factor in the abandoning of her trial for adultery.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
265, 399n59
Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelleys Mythological Dramas Midas and ProserpineWomens Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 385-11.
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1840-41: Robert Smith Surtees's Handley Cross was...

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1840-41

Robert Smith Surtees 's Handley Cross was serialised in the New Sporting Magazine; it appeared in three volumes in 1843.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1913: Edwin Landseer Lutyens was appointed to join...

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1913

Edwin Landseer Lutyens was appointed to join Herbert Baker as architects to design from scratch the city of New Delhi as capital of colonial India.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

12 April 1938: Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to...

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12 April 1938

Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to Parliament as an MP for the Labour Party .
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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11 September 1581: The Levant Trading Company was founded in...

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11 September 1581

The Levant Trading Company was founded in London.
Wood, Alfred C. A History of the Levant Company. Oxford University Press, 1935.
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1979: The principle of Public Lending Right or...

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1979

The principle of Public Lending Right or PLR, whereby government would remunerate authors for circulation of their books through public libraries, was set in place in the UK by the Public Lending Right Act.
“About Us. Background”. Public Lending Right.

Lucy Cary

LC was a seventeenth-century nun (like those of her sisters to whom her work has been variously ascribed). It was presumably as part of her religious life, more than for family or literary reasons, that...

12 May 1888: The UK proclaimed a formal protectorate over...

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12 May 1888

The UK proclaimed a formal protectorate over North Borneo.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 949

1841: Duty on opium was further reduced to only...

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1841

Duty on opium was further reduced to only one shilling per pound; this reduction represented an eight-shilling drop in fourteen years.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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After 13 July 1713: The recent Peace of Utrecht was celebrated...

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After 13 July 1713

The recent Peace of Utrecht was celebrated with a Thanksgiving Day procession along The Strand in London, while four thousand charity-school children in new clothes sang loyal hymns.
Rogers, Pat. “The Maypole in the Strand”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 83-95.
85, 87

2 May 1982: During the Falklands war, the Argentinian...

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2 May 1982

During the Falklands war, the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by British cruiser missiles just outside Britain's exclusion zone in the Falklands.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(3 May 1982): 1

1 January 1920: The League of Nations officially came into...

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1 January 1920

The League of Nations officially came into being—without the United States, although the first suggestion for such a body had been made by President Woodrow Wilson .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

After 1792: New legislation made acquiring wine licences...

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After 1792

New legislation made acquiring wine licences more difficult: owners of drinking establishments had now to apply to a Justice of the Peace, not merely to the Stamp Office .
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1843: William Hallowes Miller developed new standard...

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1843

William Hallowes Miller developed new standard measures for England.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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7 October 2004: The Nobel Foundation announced that the Austrian...

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7 October 2004

The Nobel Foundation announced that the Austrian novelist and dramatist Elfriede Jelinek was the 2004 winner of the literature prize.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

December 1936: The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded...

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December 1936

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1935 was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky , a German pacifist who had been arrested two years before this and sent to a concentration camp for exposing Nazi activities in...

1895: Advertisements appeared in Crompton's catalogues...

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1895

Advertisements appeared in Crompton 's catalogues for an electrically-heated iron that weighed 14 lbs. Electric irons took about five years more to achieve widespread use.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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1900: US writer Theodore Dreiser published his...

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1900

US writer Theodore Dreiser published his novel Sister Carrie.
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.