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1934: Karen Horney moved from Chicago to New York,...

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1934

Karen Horney moved from Chicago to New York, where she worked at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute .
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 150

By 5 October 1984: Martin Amis published a virtuoso, highly...

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By 5 October 1984

Martin Amis published a virtuoso, highly self-referential novel entitled Money: A Suicide Note.
Korn, Eric. “Frazzled yob-gene lag-jag”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4253, 5 Oct. 1984, p. 1119.
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1559: After a suppressed edition of 1555, there...

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1559

After a suppressed edition of 1555, there was published the anonymous A Myrroure for Magistrates: a collection of verse laments by famous men and women about how fortune brought them down in the end.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

5 February 1715: The Weekly Journal; or, British Gazetteer,...

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5 February 1715

The Weekly Journal; or, British Gazetteer, a government-controlled newspaper, began publication.
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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

5 October 1936: A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley's British...

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5 October 1936

A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley 's British Union of Fascists clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators at Cable Street in the East End of London.
Cross, Colin. The Fascists in Britain. Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
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1903: Sisters Kathleen and Letitia Montgomery launched...

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1903

Sisters Kathleen and Letitia Montgomery launched their career as novelists with The Cardinal's Pawn, under their joint pseudonym of K. L. Montgomery .
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.
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.
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.

Later 1820: Charles Robert Maturin published his Melmoth...

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Later 1820

Charles Robert Maturin published his Melmoth the Wanderer, a gothic novel which recalls the medieval legend of the Wandering Jew.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

7 August 1925: An Act of Parliament established the National...

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7 August 1925

An Act of Parliament established the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
“The First Reader’s Ticket”. NLS: National Library of Scotland.

27 April 1795: Elizabeth Edmead, an actress at the Theatre...

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27 April 1795

Elizabeth Edmead , an actress at the Theatre Royal , Norwich, had her Serious DramaThe Events of a Day performed there with great success, judging from the reviews.
Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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March 1983: CD (hardware and compact disks) began to...

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March 1983

CD (hardware and compact disks) began to be marketed in Europe.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
449

5 September 1793: The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris...

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5 September 1793

The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris with Billaud-Varenne declaring in the National Convention that terror would be the order of the day.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
333-5
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Connelly, Owen, editor. Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Greenwood Press, 1985.
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Later 1832: Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June...

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Later 1832

Following the First Reform Bill of 7 June 1832, a number of offences (stealing and various types of forgery) ceased to be subject to the death penalty.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. “Suffocating Suspense”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 36-37.
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Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
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5 October 1760: A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish...

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5 October 1760

A party of English dragoons beat up the Scottish couple who kept the toll-gate between East Lothian and Mid-Lothian.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
118-19

20 October 1894: A British protectorate was announced as established...

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20 October 1894

A British protectorate was announced as established over Borgu (now known as Benin, Nigeria).
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 589

July 1875: Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia),...

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July 1875

Hercegovina (at this date part of Bosnia), rebelled against rule by Turkey; in 1876 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro also rose.
Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Editor Cave, Terence, Penguin, 1995.
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1847: Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around...

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1847

Louisa Twining first visited the poor, around her childhood home in the Strand.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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26 September 1901: Ashanti was formally annexed by the UK and...

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26 September 1901

Ashanti was formally annexed by the UK and placed under the administration of the Gold Coast.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 591, 605
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
877

1868: The report of the Schools Inquiry or Taunton...

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1868

The report of the Schools Inquiry or Taunton Commission supported the view of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Emily Davies , and others that girls' education required reform.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
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Spender, Dale, editor. The Education Papers. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
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Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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January 1760-December 1761: Tobias Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared...

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January 1760-December 1761

Tobias Smollett 's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared over twenty-five issues of the British Magazine (beginning in the first, January 1760): this made it the first-ever serialised novel.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
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10 December 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain...

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10 December 1906

Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for original work on cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron.
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/.

1849: The first bombing raid from the air occurred...

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1849

The first bombing raid from the air occurred when a pilotless Montgolfier balloon was used to drop bombs on Venice.
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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Susan Smythies

SS published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding and Richardson , and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying...

16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...

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16 October 1987

In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Rose Hickman

RH was an earnest and committed Protestant during the sixteenth century's religious conflicts. She is remembered for the account she wrote down (in 1610 at the age of eighty-four) of her life. It is personal...
Rose Hickman Painting of Rose Hickman by a follower of John de Critz, 1596, the day after her seventieth birthday. Her pale face, white ruff, and hands (one holding a glove) are all that emerge from her dark cloak, cap, and belt, and a dark background. Her age and the date are noted in Latin, her name and those of her father and first husband in English. Gainsborough Old Hall.

February-May 1858: Arthur Hugh Clough's epistolary poem Amours...

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February-May 1858

Arthur Hugh Clough 's epistolary poem Amours de Voyage was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems. Editor Chew, Shirley, Manchester, UK, 1987.
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