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14 March 1786: An order was established to prevent wards...

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14 March 1786

An order was established to prevent wards of the Upper and Lower Orphanage s in India (mixed-race boys) from travelling to Britain for education.
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
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1894: Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council,...

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1894

Isla Stewart established the Matrons' Council , an organization devoted to attaining a register of nurses. She also served as its president.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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: Billy Graham made his first crusade to Britain,...

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Autumn 1954

Billy Graham made his first crusade to Britain, landing in London with a reporter and a Life photograper.
Suggate, Alan M. “The Christian Churches in England since 1945: Ecumenism and Social Concern”. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present, edited by Sheridan Gilley and William J. Sheils, Blackwell, 1994, pp. 467-8.
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Frady, Marshall. Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness. Little, Brown, 1979.
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Martin, William Curtis. A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story. W. Morrow, 1991.
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1 May 1649: Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne...

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1 May 1649

Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne and others, the Levellers issued An Agreement of the Free People of England, which Catharine Macaulay later judged their most important text.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Winter 1950: Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger...

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Winter 1950

Birth-control campaigner Margaret Sanger met with scientist Gregory Pincus in New York and discussed with him her radical dream of a safe, cheap, reversible method of contraception that would give women control over their bodies...

14 November 1948: Princess Elizabeth had her first child, Charles,...

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14 November 1948

Princess Elizabeth had her first child, Charles , who was later invested as Prince of Wales.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.

4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...

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4 May 1847

Jenny Lind , the Swedish Nightingale, gave her first London performance at Her Majesty's Theatre .
Wagenknecht, Edward. Jenny Lind. Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
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1913: The Irish Women's Franchise League helped...

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1913

The Irish Women's Franchise League helped at the soup kitchens during a general strike and lockout; the relief effort brought together women's suffrage, nationalist, and labour organisations.
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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From 30 September 1894: Charles Elkin Mathews continued publishing...

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From 30 September 1894

Charles Elkin Mathews continued publishing independently at 6B Vigo Street, London, after the dissolution of his partnership with John Lane of Bodley Head .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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18 October 1729: The Universal Spectator no. 54 printed a...

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18 October 1729

The Universal Spectator no. 54 printed a letter from a young lady signing herself Clarissa, complaining of the way that men debar women from learning and condemn them to ignorance.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Email about ongoing research to Isobel Grundy. 26 Mar. 2002.

1884: American historian Henry Brooks Adams published...

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1884

American historian Henry Brooks Adams published the second of his two novels, Esther, under the pseudonym Frances Snow Compton. His first, Democracy, 1880, had been anonymous.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1641: In a year of a raging bull market for popish...

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1641

In a year of a raging bull market for popish plots
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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several women were among those who took an oath (required by Parliament of all citizens) to support the true religion.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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January 2005: The European Union instituted a market trading...

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January 2005

The European Union instituted a market trading in carbon dioxide emissions from large, fixed installations.
MacKenzie, Donald. “The Political Economy of Carbon Trading”. London Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2007, pp. 29-31.
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1937: The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery...

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1937

The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery advocated more strenuous measures to combat the sale of abortifacient drugs.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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16 April 1860: King Victor Emmanuel II made his triumphal...

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16 April 1860

King Victor Emmanuel II made his triumphal entry into Florence.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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30 July 1938: The first number of the Beano appeared; it...

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30 July 1938

The first number of the Beano appeared; it became one of Britain's most popular comics.
Baxendale, Leo. “Bash Street, the Beano and me”. The Guardian, 30 July 2003, p. G2, 2.
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Taylor, David John. “Outrageous stereotypes, gutter-level humour and physical indignity”. The Guardian, 30 July 2003, p. G2, 3.
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Nina Bawden

Writing in and beyond the second half of the twentieth century, NB produced more than forty novels: twenty-three for adults and twenty children. Not all can be noticed here. She said that she often did...
Nina Bawden Photo of Nina Bawden in front of a row of small houses with stone facades, wearing a blue coat and a black hat, 1974.

1949: Richard Strauss's opera Salome, to words...

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1949

Richard Strauss 's opera Salome, to words by Oscar Wilde , was performed at Covent Garden, produced by Peter Brook with sets by Salvador Dali .
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, editor. Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. 10th ed., Bodley Head, 1987.
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Viola Tree

Best known for her acting career, which began in the early years of the twentieth century and ended in the thirties, VT was also an opera singer and a theatre manager. She published an autobiography...
Viola Tree Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Viola Tree. Her head is tilted with a winsome expression. She wears a gauzy top and has her hair in thick, bulky curls at the sides and tied at the back.

18 March 1709: At the trial of three men accused of murdering...

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18 March 1709

At the trial of three men accused of murdering a constable who had tried to arrest a prostitute, the Lord Chief Justice asserted, a light Woman hath a right of Liberty as well as another...

20 October 1909: Helen Alexander Archdale, a leading Scottish...

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20 October 1909

Helen Alexander Archdale , a leading Scottish WSPU member, with Adela Pankhurst and three others, went on hunger strike in prison after arrest for causing a disturbance in Dundee at a meeting featuring Winston Churchill .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
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21 December 1846: The second anesthetized operation in history...

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21 December 1846

The second anesthetized operation in history was performed at University College Hospital in London.
Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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26 July 1769: The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott's...

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26 July 1769

The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott 's execution by burning, near Maidstone in Kent, for the petty treason of poisoning her husband.
Oldham, James. “Law Reporting in the London Newspapers, 1756-1786”. American Journal of Legal History, Vol.
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, No. 3, –July 1987, pp. 173-06.
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Staves, Susan. Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660 - 1833. Harvard University Press, 1990.
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24 July 1950: The first rocket launch was made from Cape...

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24 July 1950

The first rocket launch was made from Cape Canaveral , Florida (later renamed Cape Kennedy).
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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