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1511: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and...

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1511

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed St John's College, Cambridge.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
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Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.
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September 1911: The first official airmail service in Britain...

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September 1911

The first official airmail service in Britain began.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Robinson, Howard. Carrying British Mails Overseas. George Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Walker, George. Haste, Post, Haste!: Postmen and Post-Roads Through the Ages. Dodd, Mead, 1938.
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9 December 1789: The French National Assembly began to abolish...

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9 December 1789

The French National Assembly began to abolish old provinces and create new départements or regions.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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1539-1843: During these centuries the proportion of...

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1539-1843

During these centuries the proportion of the British population over the age of sixty did not exceed 9.7%.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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1801: The jacquard loom was invented in France,...

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1801

The jacquard loom was invented in France, but it did not become widely used in Britain until the 1830s.
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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October 1950: A Gallup Poll found that 48 percent of respondents...

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October 1950

A Gallup Poll found that 48 percent of respondents read detective fiction; among the favourite authors were Edgar Wallace , Conan Doyle , and Agatha Christie .
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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19 April 1928: The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary...

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19 April 1928

The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary reached completion with the publication of the final volume. (The first had appeared on 1 February 1884.)
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
19 April 2013

After 15 January 1869: Frances Power Cobbe took up in the pages...

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After 15 January 1869

Frances Power Cobbe took up in the pages of the Echo the cause of Susanna Palmer , imprisoned for wounding her abusive husband in a fight.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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March 1755: A committee of twenty-six artists produced...

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March 1755

A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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13 May 1981: Pope John Paul II was shot in the Vatican...

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13 May 1981

Pope John Paul II was shot in the Vatican by the Turk Mehmet Ali Agca . He survived to complete one of the longest pontificates in modern times before dying in 2005.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
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Thomas Holcroft

May 1870: The liberalizing changes introduced in France...

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May 1870

The liberalizing changes introduced in France since 1860 were submitted to a plebiscite and approved.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1854: The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed...

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1854

The Oxford University Reform Act first allowed Jews to matriculate and take degrees.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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11 November 1929: Ernest Hemingway's war novel A Farewell to...

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11 November 1929

Ernest Hemingway 's war novel A Farewell to Arms, about an American soldier on the Italian front, was advertised by Jonathan Cape as due to be published in London on Remembrance Day, six weeks...

April 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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April 1910

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies passed a resolution supporting the Conciliation Bill proposed by the Conciliation Committee .
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
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February 1993: Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson...

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February 1993

Two eleven-year-old boys, Robert Thomson and Jon Venables , were convicted of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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14 March 1964: Jack Ruby was convicted in Dallas, Texas,...

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14 March 1964

Jack Ruby was convicted in Dallas, Texas, for shooting and killing Lee Harvey Oswald on 24 November 1963, two days after Oswald was arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy .
Perez, Joan Jenkins. “Ruby, Jack”. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) at the University of Texas at Austin: The Handbook of Texas Online.

Elizabeth Robins

ER 's political commitment to feminism is evident throughout her plays, novels, travel writing, and essays, in which she addresses issues ranging from women's suffrage to the rest cure and white slave trade. Through much...
Elizabeth Robins Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Robins, seated, with one arm resting on the arm of her chair and the other in her lap. She is wearing a dark dress with a high collar and long sleeves, both of which are trimmed with fur, a tall, spreading dark hat probably of feathers, and a long silver chain.

10 March 1993: Gynaecologist Dr David Gunn was shot dead...

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10 March 1993

Gynaecologist Dr David Gunn was shot dead in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion terrorists.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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January 1918: Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine...

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January 1918

Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1839: Mungo Ponton announced the discovery of light-sensitive...

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1839

Mungo Ponton announced the discovery of light-sensitive properties of bichromate of potash.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...

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16 January-9 April 1752

Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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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.

30 December 1782: A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge...

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30 December 1782

A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge showed a fashionably-clad young woman in front of a circulating-library window featuring modishly scandalous material.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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1840: The first postcard was made and sent in Britain,...

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1840

The first postcard was made and sent in Britain, by an artist named Theodore Hook .
CBC Arts Report. CBC Radio 2.
“Oldest Postcard Sells For ¥31,750”. BBC News, 8 Mar. 2002.

1877: The House on the Marsh appeared in print:...

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1877

The House on the Marsh appeared in print: a mystery novel, the second work by Florence Warden, whose real name was Florence Alice James.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Reference sources, including the Feminist Companion, mistakenly attribute a later publication date.