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By July 1964: Canadian writer Jane Rule issued in Canada...

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By July 1964

Canadian writer Jane Rule issued in Canada and England her best-known novel, Desert of the Heart, whose title alludes to W. H. Auden 's poem on the death of Yeats .
Healy, Eloise Klein. “Jane Rule: Inventing and Reinventing Community”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
25
, No. 1, Jan.–Feb. 2008, pp. 10-11.
10-11
Canadian Periodical Index. Canadian Library Association, 1928–2026.
17 (1964): 80

28 July 1910: Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons...

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28 July 1910

Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the Conciliation Bill on suffrage would receive no more attention that session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
85

1896: William Heise's The Kiss featured the cinema's...

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1896

William Heise 's The Kiss featured the cinema's first on-film kiss: the participants were May Irwin and John C. Rice .
Frémaux, Thierry. “Film censor as cinephile”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Dec. 2001, p. 30.
30

By 1777: The chevalier d'Éon was representing herself...

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By 1777

The chevalier d'Éon was representing herself as a heroic cross-dressed woman, and calling herself the Chevalière.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
38

10 April 1579: E. K. dated the epistle to Gabriel Harvey...

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10 April 1579

E. K. dated the epistle to Gabriel Harvey which prefaced the youthful Edmund Spenser 's cycle of eclogues, The Shepheardes Calender. It was published with this year's date, which at the time included the...

May 1869: The Municipal Franchise Act extended the...

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May 1869

The Municipal Franchise Act extended the municipal franchise to women ratepayers.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
168
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
80
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
191

10 December 1908: Lord Ernest Rutherford's work on radioactive...

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10 December 1908

Lord Ernest Rutherford 's work on radioactive substances earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

1852: The Amazon, a wooden mail ship, caught fire...

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1852

The Amazon, a wooden mail ship, caught fire on its maiden voyage, killing 37 of the 229 people aboard.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
100

1570: The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the...

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1570

The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the first world atlas based on scientific measurements, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Gerhard Mercator followed with his Atlas, 1585-1595, which gave the genre its current name.
Monmonier, Mark. “Measurements that made the world”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
168
, No. 13, 20–26 Mar. 2003, p. 30.
30

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.
“Suffragette Voices”. BBC, Woman’s Hour, 27 Oct. 2009.

October 1858: John Julius Reuter started providing a telegraph-based...

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October 1858

John Julius Reuter started providing a telegraph-based foreign news service to the LondonMorning Advertiser, beginning with a fortnight's free trial.
Read, Donald. The Power of News: The History of Reuters, 1849-1989. Oxford University Press, 1992.
22-3, 38-9

1811: This year the war against Napoleon cost the...

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1811

This year the war against Napoleon cost the British government 56 million pounds (nearly three times the 20 million it had cost in the year 1794).
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
455-6

By 3 September 1887: Margaret Louisa Woods published her first...

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By 3 September 1887

Margaret Louisa Woods published her first novel, A Village Tragedy.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3123 (1887): 307

14 November 1666: Samuel Pepys recorded a pretty experiment,6:...

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14 November 1666

Samuel Pepys recorded a pretty experiment,
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
6: 60
apparently the first-ever blood transfusion and first-ever vivisection: a dog had its own blood pumped out while the blood of another dog was pumped into it.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
6: 60-1

1864: Jules Verne published A Journey to the Centre...

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1864

Jules Verne published A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; this French science-fiction novel was translated into English in 1872.
Gallagher, Edward Joseph et al. Jules Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. G. K. Hall, 1980.
4

1857-1878: Thomas Spencer Wells reduced the mortality...

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1857-1878

Thomas Spencer Wells reduced the mortality rate for ovariotomies from approximately 50% to 11%.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
152

1937: French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger...

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1937

French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger became the first woman to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra .
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
375

April 1892: Physical confrontation broke out at a meeting...

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April 1892

Physical confrontation broke out at a meeting in St James's Hall, London, of supporters of women's franchise.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
84-6
Rubinstein, David. Before the Suffragettes: Women’s Emancipation in the 1890s. Harvester, 1986.
144

1985: Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother...

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1985

Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother in Britain.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1785: Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English...

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1785

Botanist Thomas Martyn translated into English a work of Rousseau 's of 1771-3 as Letters on the Elements of Botany, Addressed to a Lady: it had eight editions in the next thirty years.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
19-20
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.

25 December 1799: In France the Constitution of the Year VIII...

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25 December 1799

In France the Constitution of the Year VIII was implemented. This constitution set up a Council of State and a Consulate headed by a First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte . It was completed on 22 Frimaire...

6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...

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6 May 2009

The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud (the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 1, 2009, pp. 151-63.
151, 153, 156, 158

12 April 1917: By this date soldiers of the Canadian Corps...

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12 April 1917

By this date soldiers of the Canadian Corps had wrested control of Vimy Ridge near Arras in France from the German army, at the cost of 11,297 men killed, missing or wounded.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Vimy Ridge

Probably 1542: Edward Gosynhyll followed his recent attack...

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Probably 1542

Edward Gosynhyll followed his recent attack on women with a work on the other side of the debate: The Prayse of all Women, called Mulierum pean.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
60n4
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.