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7 June 1935: Stanley Baldwin, now of the National Coalition...

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7 June 1935

Stanley Baldwin , now of the National Coalition Party , became Prime Minister for the third time, following MacDonald 's retirement.
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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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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By 1852: The Church Penitentiary Association was founded...

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By 1852

The Church Penitentiary Association was founded to provide religious rescue homes for fallen women.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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Mary More

An amateur writer of the mid-seventeenth century (as well as a painter) who could also turn her hand to verse, MM left two surviving, unpublished works, both entirely forgotten until very recently. The now better-known...

4 May 1896: Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe,...

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4 May 1896

Alfred Harmsworth , later Lord Northcliffe, launched a halfpenny newspaper entitled the Daily Mail: the first mass-circulation daily paper, it was destined to a long run.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

12 May 1870: Manitoba entered the Canadian Confederat...

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12 May 1870

Manitoba entered the Canadian Confederation.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 476

10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...

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10 May 1951

Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier began the season at St James's Theatre , London, alternately playing Shaw 's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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: US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her...

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Spring 1938

US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her book collection, as a gift from the National American Woman Suffrage Association , to the Library of Congress .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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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.

About 10 April 1700: Legislation passed Parliament disqualifying...

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About 10 April 1700

Legislation passed Parliament disqualifying Catholics as heirs to property: if the owner remained Catholic after the age of eighteen, the estate would pass to the nearest Protestant heir.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...

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19 April 1791

Wilberforce 's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1868: The Routledge Publishing House introduced...

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1868

The Routledge Publishing House introduced the monthly journal entitled the Broadway.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Some time between 1642 and 1648: The ballad The Valiant Commander, with his...

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Some time between 1642 and 1648

The ballad The Valiant Commander, with his Resolute Lady related the story of a royalist woman who insisted on fighting though her husband urged her to flee.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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1729: 5,225 pupils were registered at 132 charity...

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1729

5,225 pupils were registered at 132 charity schools in London.
Sonnet, Martine. “A Daughter to Educate”. A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, edited by Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, translated by. Arthur Goldhammer and Arthur Goldhammer, Vol.
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, Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 101-31.
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1800: At a Salisbury music festival, a concert...

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1800

At a Salisbury music festival, a concert in the cathedral featuring work by Handel and Haydn drew an audience of 970.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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31 March 1849: The actress Anna Cora Mowatt's play Armand;...

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31 March 1849

The actress Anna Cora Mowatt 's play Armand; or, the Peer and the Peasant opened at the Marylebone Theatre .
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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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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1535: Royal injunctions by Henry VIII suppressed...

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1535

Royal injunctions by Henry VIII suppressed the study of canon law in universities, encouraging instead the study of classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, mathematics and medicine.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...

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16 January 1604

One year into his reign in England, King James I received a petition that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 January 2009

1906: A Viennese paediatrician, Clemens von Pirquet,...

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1906

A Viennese paediatrician, Clemens von Pirquet , coined the word allergy, for use with very much the modern sense.
Pennington, Hugh. “Then came the Hoover”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2006, pp. 15-16.
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Early 1830: Edward Chapman and William Hall established...

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Early 1830

Edward Chapman and William Hall established a bookselling business at 186 Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 95

27 February 1730: Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for...

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27 February 1730

Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for raping a servant.
Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Schwarz, Joan I. “Statutory and Case Rape Law and Women’s Representation”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI, 1993.

1929: The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated...

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1929

The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated the world in twenty-one days (twelve flying days); journalists aboard included one woman, Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay , who later rode the Hindenburg.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Gas-Bags”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 34-5.
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January 1885: Scientist and urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes...

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January 1885

Scientist and urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes founded the Edinburgh Social Union to undertake the cultural renewal and regeneration of Old Edinburgh using art, beauty and education.
Urquhart, Graham. “Patrick Geddes and the Edinburgh Social Union”. Patrick Geddes.
Mansfield Traquair Trust. http://www.mansfieldtraquair.org.uk/.

22 March 1895: A film of workers leaving the Lumière brothers'...

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22 March 1895

A film of workers leaving the LumièreLouis Lumière brothers' photographic factory in Lyons became the first film shown publicly on a screen; it was shown at 44 rue de Rennes, Paris.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 745

11 November 1911: The Liverpool Repertory Theatre opened after...

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11 November 1911

The Liverpool Repertory Theatre opened after a successful trial season run by actor Basil Dean .
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
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May 1922: Madeline Linford launched the Manchester...

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May 1922

Madeline Linford launched the Manchester Guardian women's page, which she produced on her own, with no editorial assistant. It was temporarily suspended during the Second World War.
Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973.
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John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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