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1898: A Vaccination Act allowed parents to register...

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1898

A Vaccination Act allowed parents to register their objection to the procedure, introducing the principle of conscientious objection into English law.
Baxby, Derrick. “The End of Smallpox”. History Today, No. 3, 1999, pp. 14-16.

2 May 1907: Rioting broke out in Rawalpindi in connection...

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2 May 1907

Rioting broke out in Rawalpindi in connection with the charge of sedition brought against the proprietor and editor of the Punjabi in February.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1843: Scottish neurologist Sir David Ferrier examined...

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1843

Scottish neurologist Sir David Ferrier examined the brains of living primates and other animals to locate and map the motor and sensory regions of the brain. He was later tried for vivisection.
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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Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Chatto and Windus, 1883, 3 vols.
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1870: French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began...

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1870

French physician Jean-Martin Charcot began developing a systematic theory of hysteria.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. “Gentlemen’s Spleen”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2009, pp. 25-7.
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Catharine Trotter

Since the late twentieth century CT has been known chiefly for her early writings, shortly before and after the year 1700, which include tragedies, poetry, a comedy, and a short fiction. Though this first phase...
Catharine Trotter Black and white photograph of a line engraving of Catharine Trotter by an unknown artist, shown from the waist up. She wears a simple dark dress with scooped neckline over a white ruffled chemise. Her light hair is brushed back and hangs down behind her shoulders. The oval portrait is placed as if set into a wall, with a plaque below bearing her married name : "Catharine Cockburn". National Portrait Gallery.

Anne Grant

AG 's life as woman of letters, which had its foundations in a bookish, colonial American childhood and isolated, late-eighteenth-century married years in the Scottish Highlands, was constructed during her residence in Edinburgh during the...
Anne Grant Black and white engraving of Anne Grant by H. Robinson after a painting by K. Macleay. She sits in an armchair wearing a large ribboned cap and frilled collar tied with a black bow, with a shawl over her dress. Behind her is a dark curtain and a small table with books and papers. Above her right shoulder a window shows a Highland scene: a little boat on a tree-fringed loch and hills or mountains behind.

1869: The Governess Association of Ireland was...

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1869

The Governess Association of Ireland was founded by Anne Jellicoe .
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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24 March 1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, died....

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24 March 1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , poet, died.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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22 June 2010: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer...

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22 June 2010

George Osborne , Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain's coalition government, announced a budget of unprecedented stringency to tackle unprecedented debt.
“Sunday Times”. The Sunday Times Magazine, 26 Dec. 2010, pp. 22-50.
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15 November 1910: Parliament reconvened and the Government...

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15 November 1910

Parliament reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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July 1190-March 1194: Richard I was absent from England on the...

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July 1190-March 1194

Richard I was absent from England on the Third Crusade, pitted (with other Christian monarchs) against the warrior sultan Saladin .
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
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1892: Kate Marsden published the illustrated travel...

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1892

Kate Marsden published the illustrated travel narrative On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers, which saw four editions within the year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1841: The death penalty for rape was changed to...

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1841

The death penalty for rape was changed to transportation for life.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Adler, Zsuzsanna. Rape on Trial. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.
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1970: Loving, a weekly magazine of romantic stories,...

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1970

Loving, a weekly magazine of romantic stories, began publication in London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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13 October 1933: The British Interplanetary Society, dedicated...

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13 October 1933

The British Interplanetary Society , dedicated to gaining support for space flight research, held its inaugural meeting in London.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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August 1942: Because of the almost daily German air attacks,...

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August 1942

Because of the almost daily German air attacks, women not employed full-time were required to accept fire-watching duties throughout Great Britain.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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March 2000: The Oxford English Dictionary was launched...

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March 2000

The Oxford English Dictionary was launched online at www.oed.com, in a new third edition.
Brewer, Charlotte. “Jane Austen and the Oxford English DictionaryNew Directions in Austen Studies, Chawton House Library; University of Southampton, 10 July 2009.

By August 1802: An English translation appeared: Interesting...

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By August 1802

An English translation appeared: Interesting Anecdotes of the heroic Conduct of Women, during the French Revolution, from the French of a Monsieur du Broca .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 35 (1802): 360
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

January 1915: A Russian victory over an Ottoman army hastened...

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January 1915

A Russian victory over an Ottoman army hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empire ruled by Turkey; the need for a scapegoat precipitated massacres of Armenians, which were worse than those of 1894-6.
Mazower, Mark. “The G-Word”. London Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2001, pp. 19-21.
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Anderson, Perry. “Kemalism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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1989: Dame Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick...

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1989

Dame Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick became the first woman elected president of the Royal College of Physicians . She held the post until 1992.
“RCP History: Presidents”. Royal College of Physicians.

Circa 1973: Mosside Press (also called Moss Side), which...

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Circa 1973

Mosside Press (also called Moss Side), which had been founded in Manchester in the late 1960s by the Student Christian Movement , became a woman-run press after all the men left.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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1975: This year was designated International Women's...

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1975

This year was designated International Women's Year, though the intiative of Helvi Sipila of the United Nations .
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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Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
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January 1904-February 1904: Southern Nigeria experienced serious anti-European...

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January 1904-February 1904

Southern Nigeria experienced serious anti-European outbreaks, the work of a secret society known as Ekumeku , or Silent Ones.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 687-8
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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14 July 1970: To mark Emmeline Pankhurst's birthday, the...

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14 July 1970

To mark Emmeline Pankhurst 's birthday, the Suffragette Fellowship Memorial was unveiled in Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street, Westminster, in memory of all those women and men who worked to bring about women's suffrage.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Suffrage Stories/Suffrage Walks: The Suffragette Fellowship Memorial, Westminster”. Woman and Her Sphere, 8 Jan. 2015.

November 1889: Lectures presented at the Arts and Crafts...

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November 1889

Lectures presented at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition, October 1888, were repeated at the meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and its Application to Industry in Edinburgh.
Cumming, Elizabeth, and Wendy Kaplan. The Arts and Crafts Movement. Thames and Hudson, 1991.
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