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1969: Anguilla, made an associated state with St...

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1969

Anguilla, made an associated state with St Kitts and Nevis two years before, requested a return to colonial status.
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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1728: A pamphlet appeared entitled Plain Reasons...

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1728

A pamphlet appeared entitled Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England.
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.

1766: At the previously unlicensed Haymarket Theatre...

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1766

At the previously unlicensed Haymarket TheatreSamuel Foote was awarded a licence to put on plays during the summer, when the patent or fully-licensed theatres were closed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

Anne Wharton

AW was a late-seventeenth-century poet who also wrote verse drama. Her recent editors identified with some certainty twenty-four of her poems; their hope, realised within a few years of their edition, was that this tiny...
Anne Wharton Reproduction of a black-and-white image of Anne Wharton from A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 1806. Her hair is long with short pieces in the front that are curled, and she is wearing a voluminous dress.

1955: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin founded Daughters...

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1955

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin founded Daughters of Bilitis , the USA's first lesbian association.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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1890: An Order in Council instituted mandatory...

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1890

An Order in Council instituted mandatory retirement of all Civil Servants at sixty-five, and gave Department Heads the discretionary authority to ask an employee to retire after sixty.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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July 1977: Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt...

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July 1977

Splendid Lives: Stories by Penelope Gilliatt was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Book News. British Council.
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29 January 1708: John Philips, who hailed from the cider-making...

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29 January 1708

John Philips , who hailed from the cider-making county of Herefordshire, published his best-known poem, the georgic Cyder.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

9 July 1914: The Representative Church Council voted to...

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9 July 1914

The Representative Church Council voted to allow women to sit on local parish councils.
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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9 January 1972: British miners represented by the National...

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9 January 1972

British miners represented by the National Union of Mineworkers came out on strike after its negotiations with the National Coal Board ended in stalemate.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
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1897: The Blackwall Tunnel in London, the first...

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1897

The Blackwall Tunnel in London, the first of several to be built under the Thames for pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, was completed.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1984: Valerie Gillies published her second collection...

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1984

Valerie Gillies published her second collection of poetry Bed of Stone, whose title came from the greatest greyhound ever.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 December 1971: Dennis Gabor from Great Britain was awarded...

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10 December 1971

Dennis Gabor from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing, and developing, the holographic method, which allowed for the retention of a wave-field's phase on a photographic plate.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

1834: German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen discovered...

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1834

German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen discovered an antidote for arsenic poison.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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1889: William Morris published his prose romance...

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1889

William Morris published his prose romance A Tale of the House of the Wolfings.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Just before 21 January 1716: Two poor female hawkers, sentenced to the...

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Just before 21 January 1716

Two poor female hawkers, sentenced to the pillory for singing Jacobite ballads they had for sale, drew a sympathetic crowd who took up a collection for them amounting to £4.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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23 July 1920: British East Africa, renamed Kenya, became...

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23 July 1920

British East Africa, renamed Kenya, became a Crown Colony.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Lady Charlotte Elliot

Author of three volumes of poetry published in the second half of the nineteenth century, LCE frequently saw her work linked to that of other Scottish writers. Her poems draw on religious and mythological themes...

16 August 1921: The newly elected (second) Dail Eireann or...

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16 August 1921

The newly elected (second) Dail Eireann or Irish lower house convened for the first time.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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By autumn 1896: French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs, already...

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By autumn 1896

French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs , already notorious for the lesbian Songs of Bilitis, 1895, printed at his own expense his best-known work, Aphrodite, about a courtesan in ancient Alexandria.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
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1 August 1997: Black Britons from all over the country (including...

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1 August 1997

Black Britons from all over the country (including Bernie Grant , one of Britain's first black MPs) held a memorial service at Rapparee Cove near Ilfracombe in Devon, for those drowned when the London...

22 May 1903: The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership...

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22 May 1903

The Maori king Mahuta was appointed to membership in New Zealand's legislative and executive councils.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 942

18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...

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18 July 1671

The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann Stevens and Damaris Sanders , was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
Feminist Companion Archive.

March 1933: The Woman's Leader (formerly The Common Cause)...

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March 1933

The Woman's Leader (formerly The Common Cause) ended publication; once again it was revived in a new form, the following month, as The Townswoman.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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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.
Bibliographers David Doughan and Denise Sanchez give a...

January 1793: Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy...

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January 1793

Hester Piozzi reported the indignant melancholy of the actress Sarah Siddons , who had been infected with syphilis by her husband.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
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