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16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....

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16 October 1793

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
154
Hunt, Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution”. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective, edited by Peter, 1949 - Jones, Arnold, 1996, pp. 268-84.
268-78

1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...

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1682

Bunyan published an allegory of salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lucille Iremonger

LI published articles in periodicals, an exotic cookery book, travel and autobiographical works, novels, an anthology, and in particular historical biographies and studies of psychology. Having grown up in Jamaica, she sometimes wrote about...

By June 1753: Thomas Gray's Poems were published by Dodsley,...

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By June 1753

Thomas Gray 's Poems were published by Dodsley , with designs by Richard Bentley the younger.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8: 477

1819: William Carey's and Joshua Marshman's Baptist...

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1819

William Carey 's and Joshua Marshman 's Baptist mission in Serampore near Calcutta, India, opened a college for local youth.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
225

2 May 1982: The Mail on Sunday newspaper began publi...

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2 May 1982

The Mail on Sunday newspaper began publication.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
140
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

10 October 1957: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, her last novel,...

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10 October 1957

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand , her last novel, set her Objectivist philosophy in stone: I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your...

15 October 1937: The ballet Checkmate, choreographed by Ninette...

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15 October 1937

The ballet Checkmate, choreographed by Ninette de Valois with music by Arthur Bliss , was first performed in London by the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
383

Mary Ann Radcliffe

MAR wrote her feminist tract The Female Advocate from personal indignation at women's inferior earning opportunities, and her Memoirs from a wish to tell the tale of her woes and struggles. The two are not...

1 January 1914: Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalg...

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1 January 1914

Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 689
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
877

1851: As the author of Brampton Rectory (her first...

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1851

As the author of Brampton Rectory (her first novel, on a religious theme), Mary Matilda Howard edited and published Memorials of James Mackness at London.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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.

2-3 December 1967: Dr Christian or Christiaan Barnard of the...

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2-3 December 1967

Dr Christian or Christiaan Barnard of the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, performed the world's first heart-transplant operation; the patient, Louis Washkansky , survived for eighteen days.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Cooper, David K. C. “Christiaan Barnard”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Sept. 2001, p. 14.
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August 1975: Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her...

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August 1975

Jane Duncan published through Macmillan her memoirs, entitled Letter from Reachfar.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976

By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...

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By July 1955

Françoise Sagan , aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novel Bonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash .
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1138
Corbett, Anne. “Françoise Sagan”. The Guardian, 27 Sept. 2004, p. 23.
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Chrisafis, Angelique. “Bonjour Françoise: France in thrall to Sagan”. The Guardian, 31 May 2008, p. 25.
25

28 March 1875: A piece in Reynolds's News denounced the...

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28 March 1875

A piece in Reynolds's News denounced the tendency of police (in enforcing the Contagious Diseases Acts) to designate women as prostitutes on grounds of their place of residence.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
123

3 June 1769: Captain James Cook, engaged in circumnavigating...

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3 June 1769

Captain James Cook , engaged in circumnavigating the world, was in Tahiti with his scientist companions to observe the transit of Venus: the passage of the planet across the disc of the sun. In...

: Karen Horney, after completing one year of...

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Summer 1910

Karen Horney , after completing one year of her medical degree at the University of Berlin , was distressed to discover she was pregnant.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147

1959: Psychologist R. D. Laing published his hugely...

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1959

Psychologist R. D. Laing published his hugely influential The Divided Self. A Study of Sanity and Madness.
Dinnage, Rosemary. “Streamlined Smiles”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 32-3.
33
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 547

January 1985: In Handsworth, a deprived area of Birmingham,...

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January 1985

In Handsworth, a deprived area of Birmingham, the male unemployment rate was 46 percent, with thirty-five applications for each advertised job. Crime figures, however, were below the national average.
Murphy, Dervla. Tales from Two Cities. J. Murray, 1987.
149-50

1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...

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1771

In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted, as Girl Reading, his niece Theophila Palmer perusing Richardson 's Clarissa, five novels by women advertised their Clarissa kinship.
Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 119-41.
133-5

1903: The Chelsea Art School opened at 4 and 5...

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1903

The Chelsea Art School opened at 4 and 5 Rossetti Studios, Flood Street, London. Co-founded by William Orpen and Augustus John , the school was open to women as well as men.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
58, 59

After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...

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After 2 March 1791

Following the death of John Wesley , the Methodists extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Isabel Hill

IH is best known as a writer for annuals, to which she made at least thirty-four contributions of short stories and comic articles for both children and adults. She wrote six dramas, and also published...
Isabel Hill Title-page of Isabel Hill, "Holiday Dreams", 1829.

2 June 1851: The first prohibition law was passed, in...

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2 June 1851

The first prohibition law was passed, in Maine: across the Atlantic in England this inaugurated the third phase of temperance reform, the push for a legislative solution to the perceived evils of drink.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
4, 75

29 April 1852: Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published...

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29 April 1852

Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; it went through 25 editions in its first two decades, and remained an influential writing tool into the twenty-first century...