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By August 1802: An English translation appeared: Interesting...

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By August 1802

An English translation appeared: Interesting Anecdotes of the heroic Conduct of Women, during the French Revolution, from the French of a Monsieur du Broca .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 35 (1802): 360
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

19 May 1761: A new parliament was called for this date,...

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19 May 1761

A new parliament was called for this date, following elections, as was obligatory on the accession of a new monarch .
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
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Elizabeth White

EW was an English seventeenth-century religious writer, whose single text, a little over twenty pages long, records her experience of marriage, childbirth, and spiritual crisis. Its publishing history demonstrates continuity between the Anglican church of...

1531: Sir Thomas Elyot published The Boke of the...

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1531

Sir Thomas Elyot published The Boke of the Governor, a classic Tudor treatise on education.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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1796: Another Watch Act extended the London night-time...

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1796

Another Watch Act extended the London night-time peace-keeping force to sixty-four watchmen, plus beadles, inspectors, constables, and further reinforcements for the winter months only.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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April 1644: The British Parliament passed an act against...

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April 1644

The British Parliament passed an act against a heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness—the erections of maypoles for spring dancing and revelry.
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.
84-5

1 March 1812: Architect and writer Augustus Pugin was born...

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1 March 1812

Architect and writer Augustus Pugin was born at 34 Store Street, near Bedford Square, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

July 2009: Headlines were made in Britain when a struggling...

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July 2009

Headlines were made in Britain when a struggling second-hand bookseller in Salisbury blamed its imminent demise on competition from the charity Oxfam .
Flood, Alison. “64,000 Goats”. The Author, Vol.
121
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2010, pp. 18-19.
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1926: Raleigh bicycles of England used metal blends...

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1926

Raleigh bicycles of England used metal blends to construct stronger and lighter-weight bicycles.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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4 August 1845: The Lunatics Act was passed, making county...

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4 August 1845

The Lunatics Act was passed, making county administrations throughout England and Wales responsible for the management of lunatics.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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McCandless, Peter. “Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 339-62.
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Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

4 March 1936: The first flight of the airship Hindenburg...

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4 March 1936

The first flight of the airship Hindenburg was made in Germany.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Sarah Trimmer

ST 's writing arose out of her work for two causes, religion and education, brought most closely together in her interest in Sunday schools. She edited magazines and was a pioneer both in animal stories...
Sarah Trimmer Painting of Sarah Trimmer by Henry Howard, exhibited 1798. She sits at a table bearing books (including a bible), inkwell and spare quill pens, holding one pen and some sheets of paper (as well as her spectacles). Her grey hair is mostly covered by a white mob cap with grey ribbon round it; she wears a checked dress and a black shawl with white neckerchief and black neckband. She is smiling slightly. National Portrait Gallery.

8 September 1999: Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese-Scottish, Muslim...

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8 September 1999

Leila Aboulela , a Sudanese-Scottish, Muslim writer who has lived since 1990 in Aberdeen, published The Translator, the first of her explicitly Islamicist novels, preaching what she herself calls Islamic feminism.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

September 1853: A monthly penny periodical entitled The Female...

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September 1853

A monthly penny periodical entitled The Female Missionary Intelligencer began publication in Dublin.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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11 January 1904: Father John Creagh began a series of fiery...

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11 January 1904

Father John Creagh began a series of fiery antisemitic sermons in Limerick, which provoked a pogrom.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
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Ethel M. Dell

EMD , the author of twenty best-selling novels published before and after the first world war, also produced eight volumes of short stories. Each novel features an introductory poem.
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.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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When she began writing for...

1967: The Press of Case Western Reserve University...

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1967

The Press of Case Western Reserve University published, posthumously, The Collected Poems of Dilys Laing.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1901: Landsteiner published his research on blood...

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1901

Landsteiner published his research on blood grouping.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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January 1944: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt resolved...

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January 1944

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt resolved to set up a War Refugee Board to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death.
Guardian Weekly.
(7 February 1999): 28

1919: Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata won second...

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1919

Rebecca Clarke 's Viola Sonata won second place in Mrs Coolidge's Competition after originally tying for first place with Ernest Bloch 's Viola Suite.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
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Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
120

9-10 March 1945: During the night American B-29s dropped incendiary...

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9-10 March 1945

During the night American B-29s dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, destroying more than sixteen square miles of the city and killing more people than the Hiroshima bomb five months later.
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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14 October 1799: Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended...

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14 October 1799

Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended to seize power.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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January 1678: An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth...

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January 1678

An unidentified woman clerk thought it worth while to write the history of the beginnings of the separate meeting of women Quakers at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.
Feminist Companion Archive.

12 March-1 October 1713: Richard Steele published a periodical entitled...

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12 March-1 October 1713

Richard Steele published a periodical entitled the Guardian.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
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Frances E. W. Harper

An active lecturer and author in support of abolition, women's rights, and racial equality in the mid-nineteenth century, FEWH was, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr , the first African-American professional woman of letters.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr et al. “Introduction”. Three Classic African-American Novels, Vintage Books, 1990, p. vii - xvii.
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Frances E. W. Harper Black and white three-quarter-length photo of Frances E. W. Harper, frontispiece to an edition of her "Poems", Philadelphia, 1898. She is standing, her hair parted in the middle and pulled back; she looks straight forward, direct but dreamy. She is wearing a long skirt and sleeveless top with a shirt under it, with bows at the collar. Her hands rest on a chairback.