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March 1849: Having been defeated by the Austrians at...

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March 1849

Having been defeated by the Austrians at Novara, Charles Albert abdicated the throne of Piedmont; he was succeeded by Victor Emmanuel II .
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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25 September 1667: Thomas Willis, in the Latin work translated...

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25 September 1667

Thomas Willis , in the Latin work translated in 1681 as An Essay of the Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock, first suggested that a range of ailments, notably hysteria, originated in the...

1959: The Roberts Report advised the establishment...

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1959

The Roberts Report advised the establishment under the auspices of what became the Department of Education and Science an efficient and comprehensive free public library system serving all British citizens.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “The new way”. Guardian Unlimited, 28 Feb. 2002.

15 September 1752: A great hurricane in South Carolina was taken...

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15 September 1752

A great hurricane in South Carolina was taken as divine warning by Sophia Hume in Epistle to the Inhabitants of South Carolina, 1754.
McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina Under Royal Government 1719-1776. Russell and Russell, 1969.
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1827: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish...

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1827

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish I Sonetti; the last of them appeared in 1849.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1948: Dilys Bennett Laing released her only published...

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1948

Dilys Bennett Laing released her only published novel, The Great Year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

18 October 2018: The Feminist Library in London opened a Crowdfunder...

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18 October 2018

The Feminist Library in London opened a Crowdfunder appeal for money needed to acquire and move into new premises: the Sojourner Truth Community Centre at 161 Summer Road in Peckham.
“Finding a new home”. The Feminist Library, 2018.

April 1935-June 1936: Stephen King-Hall published a children's...

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April 1935-June 1936

Stephen King-Hall published a children's journal called Mine, A Magazine for All who are Young.
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.

31 October 1909: Karen Danielsen, still a student but later...

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31 October 1909

Karen Danielsen , still a student but later famous as a psychologist, married Oskar Horney.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
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December 1838: The Nottingham Female Political Union issued...

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December 1838

The Nottingham Female Political Union issued the first political address by women Chartists.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
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29 December 1778-3 March 1779: The British campaign in Georgia ended when...

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29 December 1778-3 March 1779

The British campaign in Georgia ended when Americans failed to recapture Briar Creek.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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1845: Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for...

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1845

Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for Private Families, which Elizabeth David (who is credited with rescuing English food preparation from the slough into which it had fallen during the rationing and shortages during and...

July 1644: The Parliamentary forces won a victory in...

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July 1644

The Parliamentary forces won a victory in the second battle of Edgehill.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...

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1782

George Romney painted a picture to illustrate (after the fact) William Hayley 'a Triumphs of Temper, 1781: Serena, reading Burney 's Evelina. The model was Honora Sneyd .
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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May 1765: A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the...

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May 1765

A Regency Act was passed to arrange for the government of Britain in case of the monarch's further illness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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1841: St Chad's Roman Catholic Church opened in...

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1841

St Chad's Roman Catholic Church opened in Birmingham, the first Catholic cathedral to be built in the country in over 200 years.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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Sappho

Sappho , the female poet who stands at the head of the lyric tradition in Europe, has been a major figure of identification, of desire, of influence, of adulation, and of opprobrium in British women's...
Sappho Circular portrait from a fresco in ancient Pompeii, popularly identified as Sappho though it probably portrays a high-society Pompeian lady. She is clad in blue, green, and purple, with a gold net over her short, curly hair, and large gold hoop earrings. She holds a wax tablet and a stylus ready for writing. bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbNaples National Archaeological Museum.

3 January 1993: The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty provided...

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3 January 1993

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty provided that the USA and Russia should each reduce their stockpile of nuclear warheads to between 3,000 and 3,500.
Byers, Michael. “Back to the Cold War?”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2000, pp. 16-17.
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Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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August 1833: Slavery was entirely abolished throughout...

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August 1833

Slavery was entirely abolished throughout the British Empire.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
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1932: Dundee publishing firm D. C. Thomson began...

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1932

Dundee publishing firm D. C. Thomson began Secrets, a weekly magazine specializing in sensational fiction.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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William Congreve

Easter 1916: The Republican Proclamation signed by the...

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Easter 1916

The Republican Proclamation signed by the leaders of the Easter Rising guaranteed equal rights and opportunities
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
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, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.
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to all citizens of Ireland on the establishment of a Republic.
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
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, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.
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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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Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
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, 1982, pp. 21-36.
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Autumn 1940: The Sadler's Wells Theatre was bombed, leaving...

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Autumn 1940

The Sadler's Wells Theatre was bombed, leaving the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet without a performance venue.
Clarke, Mary, 1923 -, and David Vaughan, editors. The Encyclopedia of Dance and Ballet. Pitman, 1977.
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson is primarily known for her poems; she was also a letter writer. She published very little during her lifetime and the full scope of her output—some 1,775 poems—was discovered only after her death....
Emily Dickinson Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson by William C North, taken sometime between December 1846 and March 1847. She sits with her right elbow on a table beside her, which also a has a book on it. She wears her hair pulled back tight, and a dark gown with touches of white lace, and a ribbon round her neck. Amherst College.

1874: Mary Cecil Hay published Old Myddleton's...

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1874

Mary Cecil Hay published Old Myddleton's Money, an early detective story combining sensation fiction with small-town satire.
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.
Maunder, Andrew, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Varieties of Women’s Sensation Fiction, 1855-1880. Vol. 6 vols., Pickering and Chatto.
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