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31 July 1868: The Poisons and Pharmacy Act was passed;...

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31 July 1868

The Poisons and Pharmacy Act was passed; it restricted the sale of poisonous compounds to registered pharmacists.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

31 December 1804: The Rev. John Darwall, stepson of poet Mary...

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31 December 1804

The Rev. John Darwall , stepson of poet Mary Darwall , a teacher at King Edward VI School , Birmingham, wrote to the Board of Governors seeking a ban on Children intended to work...

5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...

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5 May 1816

John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt 's Examiner.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 May 2011

1877: Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James...

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1877

Using proceeds won at horse racing, Mr James Rosebery Smith set up a Bon Marché in Brixton; this was the first English enterprise set up explicitly as a department store.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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15 August 1914: The Panama Canal was officially opened....

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15 August 1914

The Panama Canal was officially opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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19 June 2006: Book collector Pierre Berès donated a corrected...

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19 June 2006

Book collector Pierre Berès donated a corrected manuscript of Stendhal 's The Charterhouse of Parma to the French nation, allaying fears that this unique text would be bought at auction and taken out of the country.
“Collector donates rare text to France”. Arthur Rimbaud: News 2006, 19 June 2006.

Around 1866: In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers...

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Around 1866

In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers throughout the country defended their jobs against machine workers.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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29 May 1660: Charles II entered London as the restored...

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29 May 1660

Charles II entered London as the restored king; the date became one of annual celebration for royalists.
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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1855: The Metropolis Local Management Act was ...

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1855

The Metropolis Local Management Act was passed.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
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Kearns, Gerry. “Cholera, Nuisances and Environmental Management in Islington 1830-1855”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 94-125.
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Daunton, Martin. “Health and Housing in Victorian London”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 126-44.
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Smith, Francis Barrymore. The People’s Health, 1830-1910. Croom Helm, 1979.
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1954: The London branch of Australian publishing...

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1954

The London branch of Australian publishing firm Angus and Robertson was organized by Barry Rowland and Hector MacQuarrie .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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1 December 1897: Zululand was annexed to Natal....

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1 December 1897

Zululand was annexed to Natal.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 762
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
888, 890

13 March 1781: Astronomer William Herschel discovered the...

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13 March 1781

Astronomer William Herschel discovered the existence of the planet Uranus: he had already discovered several previously unknown comets, as his sister Caroline did soon afterwards.
Radford, Tim. “Light fantastic at the end of the universe”. Guardian Weekly, 1 Mar. 2000, p. 19.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Isabella Spence

EIS began publishing just before the end of the eighteenth century and continued for twenty-five years. She issued novels, shorter fiction, and travel books, the latter put together from letters sent to friends in the...
Elizabeth Isabella Spence Engraving of Elizabeth Isabella Spence, from from "La Belle Assemblée", No. 185. She is seated, seen from the shoulders up, facing the viewer with a slight smile. She wears a dark, high-waisted dress with short sleeves and two layers of white linen at the neck, with a light shawl wrapped around her. Her curly hair spills out from her high, puffed, flower-bedecked bonnet. A book or sheaf of papers, and a quill and inkwell, are visible on a desk behind her.

Between 1859 and 1866: Mildred Holland, wife of the vicar William...

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Between 1859 and 1866

Mildred Holland , wife of the vicar William Holland, spent many hours during these years in the parish church of Huntingfield in Suffolk, gilding, lettering and painting th[e] most glorious of small church roofs...

1784: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...

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1784

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 's tragedy Kabale und Liebe (later known in England as Intrigue and Love) was produced and published.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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20 July 1922: The Infanticide Act reduced the charge from...

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20 July 1922

The Infanticide Act reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter if it were shown that a woman killed her new-born child while psychologically unbalanced after giving birth.
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
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1929: The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated...

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1929

The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated the world in twenty-one days (twelve flying days); journalists aboard included one woman, Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay , who later rode the Hindenburg.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Gas-Bags”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 34-5.
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1904: A researcher studying the effects of S-curve...

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1904

A researcher studying the effects of S-curve corsets reported that monkeys laced up in these corsets moped, became excessively irritable and within weeks sickened and died!
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. University of California Press, 1993.
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Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. University of California Press, 1993.
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2 July 1859: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...

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2 July 1859

William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans began publishing a sixpenny periodical entitled Once a Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
79, 479-80
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.
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.

Late 1777: Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous...

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Late 1777

Publisher Joseph Johnson issued the anonymous The Laws Respecting Women, in four sections, on the personal rights of women, the property of women, crimes committed by and with women (as well as their corresponding...

9 November 1911: The Women's Social and Political Union ended...

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9 November 1911

The Women's Social and Political Union ended its unoffical truce with the Government in reaction to the exclusion of women from the proposed Reform Bill.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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7 July 1990: Martina Navratilova won the women's singles...

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7 July 1990

Martina Navratilova won the women's singles title at the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the ninth time, beating the record of eight wins set by Helen Wills Moody between 1927 and 1938.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1920: The Dick Kerr Ladies competed against a French...

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1920

The Dick Kerr Ladies competed against a French team at Preston in the first international football match between women's teams.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1759-67: The British Magazine; or, Monthly Repository...

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1759-67

The British Magazine; or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen and Ladies was published in London, edited by Tobias Smollett .
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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1628-1632: John Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna,...

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1628-1632

John Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna, which argues for the education of girls.
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
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Comenius, John Amos. “Introductions”. The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius, translated by. Maurice Walter Keatinge, 2nd ed., Russell, 1967, pp. 1-169.
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