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1887: The New Century Guild for Working Women began...

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1887

The New Century Guild for Working Women began publishing, in London, the Working Woman's Journal, which offered articles about work from the employees' perspective.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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1725: Francis Hutcheson published anonymously,...

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1725

Francis Hutcheson published anonymously, in two separate forms, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in two treatises, one on aesthetics (beauty, order, harmony, design) and one...

1949: TPI (Treponema Pallidum Immobilization) tests...

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1949

TPI (Treponema Pallidum Immobilization) tests for venereal disease were developed.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
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1867: Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs won...

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1867

Julia Margaret Cameron 's photographs won an Honourable Mention at the International Exhibition in Paris.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
25760 (16 March 1867): 8; 25956 (31 October 1867): 1

June 1876: The Banga Mahila Bidyalaya was opened as...

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June 1876

The Banga Mahila Bidyalaya was opened as the first liberal arts college for women in India.
Ramusack, Barbara N. “Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists, Feminist Allies: British Women Activists in India, 1865-1945”. Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Indiana University Press, 1992, pp. 119-36.
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1832: John William Parker established his own publishing...

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1832

John William Parker established his own publishing business at 445 West Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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1749: The philosophe Buffon began publishing his...

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1749

The philosophe Buffon began publishing his Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, one of the great Enlightenment collaborative projects for the advancement of learning.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Winter 1932-3: An estimated 7 million people died in the...

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Winter 1932-3

An estimated 7 million people died in the Ukraine in the famine following Stalin 's collectivization of agriculture, and insistence that exports should continue no matter what the scarcity at home. This period in Ukrainian...

26 June 1959: The St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened...

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26 June 1959

The St Lawrence Seaway was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth and American President Eisenhower at St Lambert, Quebec.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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29 November 2010: An organization called WikiLeaks (which at...

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29 November 2010

An organization called WikiLeaks (which at this date few people had heard of) embarked on gradual public release of more than 250,000 secret (but not top secret) cables sent by US and other embassies around...

28 July 1848: Frederick Douglass in The North Star reported—and...

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28 July 1848

Frederick Douglass in The North Star reported—and praised—the recent women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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27 October 1832: The weekly Maids', Wives', and Widows' Penny...

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27 October 1832

The weekly Maids', Wives', and Widows' Penny Magazine and Gazette of Fashion began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Before 11 November 1921: For the annual Remembrance Day commemoration...

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Before 11 November 1921

For the annual Remembrance Day commemoration of Britain's war dead, replicas of wild scarlet poppies went on sale for the first time.
Bradshaw, David. “Mrs. Dalloway’s Forgotten Fronts: Figuring the War and Memorializing the Dead”. Voyages Out, Voyages Home: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bangor, 15 June 2001.

May 1868: Charles Jones produced the first issue of...

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May 1868

Charles Jones produced the first issue of Woman's World, a monthly published in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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16 May 1911: King George V unveiled the Queen Victoria...

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16 May 1911

King George V unveiled the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, and knighted its designer, Thomas Brock .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1753: Parliament brought in a bill for implementing...

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1753

Parliament brought in a bill for implementing the first national census: it was rejected by the House of Lords as an infringement on personal liberty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1 August 1714: Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover...

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1 August 1714

Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover to inform George I that he had assumed the throne.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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December 1954: Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, intervened...

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December 1954

Winston Churchill , as Prime Minister, intervened to block a planned BBC programme (with a woman producer) about the prospect of the H-bomb and the effects of fallout.
Travis, Alan. “Churchill gagged BBC on H-bomb”. The Guardian, 20 Aug. 1999, p. 6.
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16 January 1761: French forces surrendered to the British...

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16 January 1761

French forces surrendered to the British at Pondicherry, capital of French India, effectively marking the end of French power in India.
Spear, Percival. The Oxford History of Modern India, 1750-1975. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1978.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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30 March 1790: An advertisement appeared in The World inviting...

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30 March 1790

An advertisement appeared in The World inviting benevolent persons to subscribe for the benefit of a recent widow of a major in the British Army , left with Seven Children without any means of support.
Behrendt, Stephen C. “Women without Men: Barbara Hofland and the Economics of Widowhood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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Sally Purcell

SP was a twentieth-century poet of distinction (whose scholarly bent showed itself in an astonishing range of esoteric allusion) and a translator (mostly of poetry) from a virtuoso range of languages. She also edited books...

25 September 1808: Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was...

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25 September 1808

Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was born in Liverpool.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

29 February 1724: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate...

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29 February 1724

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate Mistress, or . . . Lady Roxana, his second fictional autobiography of a woman living on her wits.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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By June 1776: The Stamp Act (repealed a decade previously)...

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By June 1776

The Stamp Act (repealed a decade previously) now laid a tax on periodicals at a penny halfpenny a sheet.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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1910: The Women's League of Service for Motherhood...

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1910

The Women's League of Service for Motherhood was founded.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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