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August 1969: Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland:...

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August 1969

Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland: in Derry nationalist protestors attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary with bricks and petrol bombs, driving them out of the city's Catholic area of Bogside; in Belfast hundreds of families...

1682: Robert Gould published a misogynist satire,...

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1682

Robert Gould published a misogynist satire, Love Given O're: Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy of Woman.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
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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.

1829: Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the...

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1829

Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the world's largest pier—began.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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November 1899: Architect W. G. R. Sprague completed building...

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November 1899

Architect W. G. R. Sprague completed building for Sir Charles Wyndham the London West End theatre Wyndham's , still open today.
“The Albery Theatre (June 2006 renamed The Noel Coward Theatre)”. thisistheatre.com.

By 28 June 1884: Ida Ashworth Taylor (the middle one of three...

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By 28 June 1884

Ida Ashworth Taylor (the middle one of three novelist sisters born at East Sheen in Surrey) published her first work: Venus' Doves, a romance.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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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.

April 1794: Thomas Walker, leading Manchester cotton...

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April 1794

Thomas Walker , leading Manchester cotton merchant and founder of the Constitutional Society there, was acquitted on a trumped-up charge of conspiring to subvert the constitution.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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1903: The Institute of Hygiene was founded in England...

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1903

The Institute of Hygiene was founded in England to teach working-class women how to be better mothers and run cleaner homes.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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1843: A two-shilling annual entitled the Christian...

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1843

A two-shilling annual entitled the Christian Ladies' Pocket-Book Almanack began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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5 June 1975: The Suez Canal reopened to international...

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5 June 1975

The Suez Canal reopened to international shipping, having been closed since June 1967 during the Six Day War.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.

23 May 1794-1 July 1795: The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment...

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23 May 1794-1 July 1795

The Habeas Corpus Act (against imprisonment without trial) was suspended in a crackdown on treasonable or radical activity. John Aikin wrote that its suspension during the war years became so frequent as to be habitual...

1900: Mary Dickens published her novel The Wastrel,...

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1900

Mary Dickens published her novel The Wastrel, about two male cousins, one English and one American.
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.

A. E. Housman

AEH , who was also a classical scholar, editor, and critic, is best known for his poetry, mostly in ballad form. His first publication happened in 1896, and the last was posthumous. His characteristic subjects...

1837: Evangelical Thomas Fowell Buxton founded...

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1837

Evangelical Thomas Fowell Buxton founded the Aborigines Protection Society to stop the slave trade and promote the spread of Christianity among the people of Africa.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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Jane Warton

JW tried her hand at various genres of literature during the later eighteenth century, without making any one her own. She published poetry, essays, conduct books, and a remarkable novel. She may have been an...

13 July 1793: Hoarding was made a capital crime in Fra...

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13 July 1793

Hoarding was made a capital crime in France.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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December 1895: Elizabeth S. Hooper edited the first issue...

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December 1895

Elizabeth S. Hooper edited the first issue of Sisters, a monthly magazine devoted to women of every class, clime and creed.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Bogenschneider, Duane R., editor. The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History, 1543-1945: A Bibliographic Guide to the Microform Collection. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983, 3 vols.
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1939: A law operative in New York State decreed...

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1939

A law operative in New York State decreed that hospitals must house newborn babies in a separate room from their mothers.
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Samuel Johnson

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
Samuel Johnson Portrait of Samuel Johnson painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1772 for Henry Thrale's collection in the library at Streatham Park. Johnson is seated, wearing a wig and brown waistcoat and jacket, with a frown indicating either disagreement or short sight.

September 1930: Shakespeare's Othello opened at the Savoy...

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September 1930

Shakespeare's Othello opened at the Savoy Theatre starring Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft : it shocked some in the audience on racist grounds.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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October 1582: Under the leadership of Pope Gregory XIII,...

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October 1582

Under the leadership of Pope Gregory XIII , Italy and other countries in Continental Europe (but not Britain) switched to the reformed Gregorian calendar: 5 October became 15 October, as time lost by the Julian...

4 February 1935: In response to an announcement that proposed...

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4 February 1935

In response to an announcement that proposed implementation of Part II of the Unemployment Act would result in cuts to benefits, a mass demonstration of women was held at Merthyr in Wales, outside the...

1754: The Royal College of Physicians made public...

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1754

The Royal College of Physicians made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu thirty-three years before.
Hopper, Karine. “Doctors, Ministers, and Women Novelists: The Effect of Print on the Inoculation Debate in the later Eighteenth Century”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.

1938: The No-Conscription League was formed by...

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1938

The No-Conscription League was formed by former members of the No-Conscription Fellowship (founded by the efforts of Lilla and Fenner Brockway ) when the Peace Pledge Union refused to lobby against conscription.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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7 September-November 1940: The first period of the Blitz brought London...

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7 September-November 1940

The first period of the Blitz brought London months of regular nightly bombing. Three million homes were damaged, probably more than 30,000 people killed, and millions of books were destroyed in publishers' warehouses around St...

1972: Anna Adams published her poetry pamphlet...

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1972

Anna Adams published her poetry pamphlet Memorial Tree, which was limited to 250 copies.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.