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Early 1612: John Webster's tragedy The White Devil, written...

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Early 1612

John Webster's tragedy The White Devil, written in about 1609, was first performed; it reached print the same year.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
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1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...

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1904

Sir Walter Raleigh , author of the literary history The English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford .
Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.
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December 1731: Peg Woffington, then a little-known but rising...

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December 1731

Peg Woffington , then a little-known but rising Irish actress, scored a resounding stage success in Dublin in the breeches role of Sir Harry Wildair, hero of George Farquhar 's comedy The Constant Couple (first...

January 1769-January 1772: The mysterious and unidentified Junius published...

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January 1769-January 1772

The mysterious and unidentified Junius published his pseudonymous letters of political analysis.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Winter 1981: Protesters against nuclear weapons rendered...

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Winter 1981

Protesters against nuclear weapons rendered permanent or semi-permanent the impromptu Women's Peace Camp outside the perimeter fence of the air force base at Greenham Common near Newbury.
Harford, Barbara, and Sarah Hopkins, editors. Greenham Common: Women at the Wire. Women’s Press, 1984.

1880s: A dry gelatine system of photography replaced...

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1880s

A dry gelatine system of photography replaced the wet colloidon process.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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1860: The Langham Place Group established a club...

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1860

The Langham Place Group established a club for women, a Ladies' Institute that gave subscribers access to a Reading Room, a Luncheon Room, and a place to deposit parcels from shopping.
Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998.
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1841: Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur....

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1841

Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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January 1624: The first permanent British settlement in...

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January 1624

The first permanent British settlement in the Caribbean was founded on Saint Kitts.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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By 9 August 1890: Jane Ellen Panton's novel Having and Holding...

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By 9 August 1890

Jane Ellen Panton 's novel Having and Holding appeared, as probably her second book to be published this year.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3276 (1890): 188
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

September 1938: Sigmund Freud and his family settled in London,...

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September 1938

Sigmund FreudAnna Freud and his family settled in London, having fled the Nazis with the help of Princess Marie Bonaparte , a fellow psychoanalyst.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...

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26 May 1926

The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords .
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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1857: By this date, an estimated 250 tons of human...

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1857

By this date, an estimated 250 tons of human excrement were flowing into the Thames River on a daily basis.
Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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3 March 1817: The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued...

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3 March 1817

The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued his first publication in book form, modestly entitled Poems, containing almost all the poetry he is known to have written by then.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1871: At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx was...

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1871

At sixteen years of age Eleanor Marx was already acting as her father 's personal secretary, as well as travelling with him to various international conferences.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

Joanna Trollope

JT is a highly popular novelist who began in the late twentieth century with historical romances and moved on to books which explore the changing conditions of contemporary life and especially family life: the kind...
Joanna Trollope Colour photo of Joanna Trollope standing in a crowded auditorium holding one of her books. She wears a black jacket with white polka-dots over a white shirt, and a chunky metal and pearl necklace. Her blonde hair is chin-length.

January 1896: The Combined Sub-Committee was established...

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January 1896

The Combined Sub-Committee was established to promote suffrage in Parliament ; it was an alliance of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage , the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage ...

1873: Administrative consternation was caused when...

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1873

Administrative consternation was caused when the top-ranked candidate in the Oxford Senior Local Examination turned out to be a woman, or girl: the seventeen-year-old Annie Rogers . Girls had been eligible to sit these exams...

15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...

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15 August 1838

The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1780: Of 21,000 children whose births were registered...

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1780

Of 21,000 children whose births were registered in Paris this year, only 5 per cent were fed their mothers' milk.
Jolly, Alison. “Keep Me”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, pp. 23-4.
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Late 1689: John Locke published three important works:...

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Late 1689

John Locke published three important works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, his anonymous Letter concerning Toleration (in English form), and Two Treatises of Government.
Woozley, Anthony Douglas, and John Locke. “Introduction”. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Fontana/Collins, 1975, pp. 9-51.
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1932: Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection...

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1932

Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection from the Poetry Circle of the Writers' Club , The Writers' Club Anthology.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1864: Ludwig II became King of Bavaria....

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1864

Ludwig II became King of Bavaria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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15-24 May 1974: An organization calling itself the Ulster...

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15-24 May 1974

An organization calling itself the Ulster Workers' Council called a general strike in Northern Ireland in response to developments in the Unionist Party and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
“Ulster Workers’ Council Strike”. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN Web Service).

January 1923: The N. C. W. News, from the National Council...

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January 1923

The N. C. W. News, from the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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