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September 1753: George Drummond, Provost of Edinburgh (and...

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September 1753

George Drummond , Provost of Edinburgh (and brother of the Quaker preacher and writer May Drummond ), laid the foundation stone of the new Royal Exchange there.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Drummond; May Drummond

1856: Advances in organic chemistry enabled William...

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1856

Advances in organic chemistry enabled William Henry Perkin to synthesize the first artificial or aniline dye, mauve; the dyes started a fashion craze for brilliant colours.
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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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
296-7

Hannah Allen

HA was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian sect) of the later seventeenth century.

Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale

During the early eighteenth century Winifred, Lady Nithsdale , wrote family letters about business and relationships. She is remembered for the letter to her sister which tells, with a historian's narrative flair and command of...
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale Lithograph from a painting of Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale, by an unknown artist. She is seated with a landscape visible behind, her hand on a small dog that sits beside her. She is wearing a gown with low neck, wide sleeves, and white trim at the sleeves and neckline, plus a long shawl. Her hair is curled, high on top, with part lying spread on her shoulders. Scottish Portrait Gallery.

1843: David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson toured...

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1843

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson toured Scotland taking photographs.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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17 December 1834: The first railway in Ireland opened, between...

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17 December 1834

The first railway in Ireland opened, between Dublin and Kingstown.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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October 1990: Elaine Morgan published another scientific...

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October 1990

Elaine Morgan published another scientific work, The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

March 1882: The first issue appeared of The Gatherer,...

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March 1882

The first issue appeared of The Gatherer, a small literary and feminist magazine published in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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19 October 1839: George Bradshaw published the first Bradshaw's...

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19 October 1839

George Bradshaw published the first Bradshaw's Railway Guide.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1972: Activist women's groups continued to spring...

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1972

Activist women's groups continued to spring up in Britain this year; London acquired the Radical Feminists and the Women's Film Group .
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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10 March 1793: The Vendée revolt began as counter-revolutionary...

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10 March 1793

The Vendée revolt began as counter-revolutionary peasants rose against the French government's demand for army volunteers: the day after this saw a massacre of five hundred people.
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
301-2, 321
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32.
196 and n7, 199, 225n11

2 July 1890: South Kensington Museum held an exhibition...

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2 July 1890

South Kensington Museum held an exhibition in celebration of the Jubilee of the Penny Post.
Staff, Frank. The Picture Postcard and Its Origins. F. A. Praeger, 1966.
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1779: Samuel Crompton brought together ideas from...

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1779

Samuel Crompton brought together ideas from Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves to invent the spinning mule.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

March 1999: A massacre at Drenice in Albania led NATO...

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March 1999

A massacre at Drenice in Albania led NATO to get involved in the Bosnian or Kosovan war, which had been going on for at least a year and had been prefigured in local ethnic violence...

October 1909: The Men's League for Women's Suffrage began...

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October 1909

The Men's League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Elizabeth Bury

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...
Elizabeth Bury Oval line print of Elizabeth Bury by J. Burden, 1777 (more that fifty years after her death). Her hair is fashionably styled on top of her head with a couple of locks hanging down. She is wearing a dress with white at neckline and cuffs and her name, " Mrs. Elizabeth Bury", is written below.

20 July 1871: British Columbia entered the Dominion of...

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20 July 1871

British Columbia entered the Dominion of Canada.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 476

6 June 1904: A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head...

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6 June 1904

A. H. Bullen founded the Shakespeare Head Press at 21 Chapel Street, Stratford upon Avon, two doors away from New Place, Stratford upon Avon, the house which Shakespeare bought in 1597.
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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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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7 May 1915: The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a...

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7 May 1915

The Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
167, 186
Reynolds, David. “Too Proud to Fight”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 29-31.
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10 January-2 February 1943: The Russian campaign to relieve Stalingrad...

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10 January-2 February 1943

The Russian campaign to relieve Stalingrad ended, after terrible suffering on both sides, with the surrender of the German 6th Army : a major turning-point of the war.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
546
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
111, 130-1
Waal, Thomas de. “Dun-Coloured Dust”. London Review of Books, 15 July 1999, pp. 18-19.
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1809: Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy,...

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1809

Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, in Danville, Kentucky.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...

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9 April 1855

American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
3-4, 115

1847: Nathaniel Woodard launched his first school,...

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1847

Nathaniel Woodard launched his first school, in his own home with two teachers. By the twentieth century the Woodard Schools comprised a group of private, Anglican, charitable-status girls' boarding schools.
Sturrock, June. "Heaven and Home": Charlotte M. Yonge’s Domestic Fiction and the Debate over Women. University of Victoria, 1995.
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November 1886-January 1887: William Morris published A Dream of John...

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November 1886-January 1887

William Morris published A Dream of John Ball in his socialist journal, Commonweal. It appeared in volume form in 1888.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

11 March 1796: London Corresponding Society members, travelling...

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11 March 1796

LondonCorresponding Society members, travelling the country to drum up support, were arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
389-402