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1775: The Sunday Observance Society was founde...

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1775

The Sunday Observance Society was founded.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Anne Whitehead

AW petitioned with other women for the release of Friends imprisoned for their beliefs. Ten years later, at a time of declining radicalism in the Quaker sect on matters of gender, she wrote the larger...

October 1894: The University of Edinburgh opened medical...

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October 1894

The University of Edinburgh opened medical degrees to women.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
199

1909: Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical...

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1909

Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical novel set in Paris, was published by Claire De Pratz .
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.

February 1930: Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's...

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February 1930

Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's paper, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
46

1614: Barber-surgeons in Salisbury complained of...

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1614

Barber-surgeons in Salisbury complained of divers women and others in this citie altogether unskilfull in the Arte of chirurgenes, who take cures on them to the greet danger of the patient.
Walker, Kim. “’Divine Chymistry’ and Dramatic Character: The Lives of Lady Anne Halkett”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 133-49.
144n23

1858: Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded...

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1858

Louisa Twining became secretary of the newly-founded Workhouse Visiting Society .
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
176

1850: By mid-century the Anglican Evangelical Church...

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1850

By mid-century the Anglican Evangelical Church Missionary Society had approximately 300 volunteers worldwide; by the end of the century there were 3,500 missionaries stationed abroad and many more in domestic missions.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
77, 79

May 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge across San Francisco...

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May 1937

The Golden Gate Bridge across San Francisco Bay opened for traffic.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
230

9 November 1921: The Malthusian League opened a birth control...

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9 November 1921

The Malthusian League opened a birth control clinic, the Welfare Centre for Pre-Maternity, Maternity and Child Welfare , at 153A East Street, Walworth, London.
Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
220
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
251

Molly Keane

MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...

1910-March 1913: The Masai tribe's repeated refusal to leave...

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1910-March 1913

The Masai tribe's repeated refusal to leave Laikipia resulted in the tribe's forced removal by the colonial government in Kenya.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 658

September 1964: Respected British educationist J. Newsom...

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September 1964

Respected British educationist J. Newsom argued in The Education Women Need (The Observer) that girls should be educated differently from boys, to fit them to be housewives and mothers.
Blackstone, Tessa. “The Education of Girls”. The Rights and Wrongs of Women, edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, Penguin, 1976, pp. 199-16.
201, 424n4
Blackstone, Tessa. “The Education of Girls”. The Rights and Wrongs of Women, edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, Penguin, 1976, pp. 199-16.
201

1733: Ralph Allen began building his Palladian...

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1733

Ralph Allen began building his Palladian mansion, Prior Park, on a hill above Bath, designed by John Wood . He had a practical as well as an aesthetic end: to prove the quality of...

Autumn 1791: Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce...

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Autumn 1791

Anti-slavery campaigners William Wilberforce and Henry Thornton launched the Sierra Leone Company , which sought to resettle former slaves on the west coast of Africa, and to promote legitimate trade with the region.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Wilberforce

May 1916: The British Parliament took the unpopular...

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May 1916

The British Parliament took the unpopular decision to institute conscription for the armed forces (which had been standard practice in other European countries but not in the UK); the Military Service Act followed.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
524
Wainwright, Martin. “Conchies of the north fought the war at home”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
11
, 7–13 Mar. 2002, p. 18.
18

17 June 1775: A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just...

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17 June 1775

A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just south of Boston.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
281
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
27

January 1850: A Royal Commission was established to administer...

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January 1850

A Royal Commission was established to administer the Great Exhibition.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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14 June 1927: Oxford University passed a statute limiting...

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14 June 1927

Oxford University passed a statute limiting the numbers of women in residence to eight hundred and forty.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
356, 258
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
171-2, 236

About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...

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About 1411

The University of St Andrews was founded by Henry Wardlaw , Bishop of St Andrews, Scotland.
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
III: 302
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
509
Some sources note that this founding could have taken place as early as 1410.

7 January 1896: The first Fanny Farmer Cookbook by Fannie...

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7 January 1896

The first Fanny Farmer Cookbook by Fannie Meritt Farmer (officially titled The Boston Cooking School Cookbook) was published.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 December 2009

1844: By this date, South London wells were predominately...

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1844

By this date, South London wells were predominately polluted from nearby cesspools, and only the very poor still collected water by this means.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
82
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
89

1909: The new Sinn Féin League (the Irish Republican...

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1909

The new Sinn Féin League (the Irish Republican party) officially supported women's suffrage, but argued that the women's vote must wait until after Ireland gained independence.
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
17
, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.
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17 February 1772: Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for...

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17 February 1772

Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for fourteen years of sole rights to a medicine, called Velno's Vegetable Syrup, which was alleged to cure venereal disease.
McAllister, Marie E. “John Burrows and the Vegetable Wars”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 85-102.
89-90 and n15

Christina Fraser-Tytler

CFT was a Scottish-born novelist and poet with a taste for melodramatic plots and working-class protagonists. In the later decades of the nineteenth century, she published at least six novels, three poetry volumes, a collection...