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2 August 1270: Louis IX of France (also called St Louis)...

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2 August 1270

Louis IX of France (also called St Louis) died at Carthage on the final crusade (the second of his reign).
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

30 June 1945: Campaigning in the first post-war general...

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30 June 1945

Campaigning in the first post-war general election, Winston Churchill publicly stated support for the principle of equality for women in industry.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
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, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15.
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Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963. Editor James, Robert Rhodes, Chelsea House in association with R. R. Bowker, 1974, 8 vols.
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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.
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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

March 1916: The Master Bookbinders' Association announced...

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March 1916

The Master Bookbinders' Association announced that it would begin charging publishers for the storage of unbound sheets.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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8 March 1698

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
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.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Puritanism in Action. F. Cass, 1964.
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Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
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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.

11 October 1709: Richard Steele's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff...

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11 October 1709

Richard Steele 's use of Mrs Jenny Distaff (supposedly half-sister of the supposed author, Isaac Bickerstaff) in The Tatler gave rise to a short-lived periodical, The Whisperer, written as by this fictional woman.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1 April 1945: 50,000 Americans landed on Okinawa; it was...

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1 April 1945

50,000 Americans landed on Okinawa; it was secured on 22 June 1945.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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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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1951: The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade,...

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1951

The Falling Leaves, a novel by Rosalind Wade , was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

August 1864: The English Woman's Journal, a practical...

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August 1864

The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.
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.
under Anna Brownell Jameson
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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6 June 1928: On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory...

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6 June 1928

On this Derby Day, a magnificently self-congratulatory dinner
Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. “They got egg on their faces”. London Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2003, pp. 29-30.
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for a hundred and fifty distinguished people, all male, was held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London to celebrate the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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1894: Eragny Press was founded in London by Esther...

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1894

Eragny Press was founded in London by Esther and Lucien Pissarro .
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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17 June 1912: The Liberals' long-promised Franchise Bill...

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17 June 1912

The Liberal s' long-promised Franchise Bill passed its first reading in the House of Commons; its second reading followed on 12 July 1912.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Mary Linskill

ML was a regional novelist, short-story writer, and occasionally a poet, whose fiction is shaped by the Yorkshire port of Whitby: by the place of its abbey in religious history and of its fishing...

26 November 1610: Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers'...

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26 November 1610

Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers' RegisterCoryats Crudities (his narrative of travels in Europe), which was published the next year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
23 December 2009

1785: As early as this year, major London book...

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1785

As early as this year, major London book printers agreed to the London Scale of Prices, assuring compositors standard piece-rate wages.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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1765: The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group...

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1765

The Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of half a dozen men with interests in experimental science, began to meet regularly.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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After 26 July 1680: Following Lord Rochester's death, his Poems...

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After 26 July 1680

Following Lord Rochester 's death, his Poems on Several Occasions were anonymously published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

6 November 1860: Oil was struck at the first Canadian oil...

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6 November 1860

Oil was struck at the first Canadian oil well, sunk at Petrolia, Ontario.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 471

1850s: Railway lines were completed to provide service...

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1850s

Railway lines were completed to provide service along the north and south coasts in Wales.
Turnock, David. Railways in the British Isles: Landscape, Land Use and Society. Adam and Charles Black, 1982.
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14 January 1744: Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential,...

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14 January 1744

Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential, philosophic poem in blank verse entitled The Pleasures of Imagination: the faculty which, he argues, the artist uses to apprehend and to imitate the wonders of God's creation.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

8 April 1706: George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer...

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8 April 1706

George Farquhar 's comedy The Recruiting Officer was first performed at Drury Lane .
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Late May 1967: General Nasser of Egypt invaded the Sinai...

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Late May 1967

General Nasser of Egypt invaded the Sinai peninsula, forcing out the United Nations Emergency Force which held it.
Krauthammer, Charles. “Let peacekeeping rest in peace”. Guardian Weekly, 8–14 June 2000, p. 31.
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2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...

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2 June 1953

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC 's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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