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14 August 1737: George II signed the Charter for the proposed...

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14 August 1737

George II signed the Charter for the proposed Foundling Hospital in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
329-30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Coram

1862: Henry Mayhew published The Criminal Prisons...

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1862

Henry Mayhew published The Criminal Prisons of London.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
634

30 December 1916: The last issue of the avant-garde Bruno's...

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30 December 1916

The last issue of the avant-garde Bruno's Weekly, edited by Guido Bruno , was published in New York.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
276
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 December 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain...

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10 December 1906

Sir Joseph John Thomson from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for original work on cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

1895: Advertisements appeared in Crompton's catalogues...

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1895

Advertisements appeared in Crompton 's catalogues for an electrically-heated iron that weighed 14 lbs. Electric irons took about five years more to achieve widespread use.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
prelims

By 1805: The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought...

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By 1805

The Society for the Suppression of Vice brought its first prosecutions to court.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
42, 45

3 May 1919: The Third Afghan War began after Amir Amanullah...

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3 May 1919

The Third Afghan War began after Amir Amanullah declared a holy war (jihad) on Britain.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
215
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
233
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
357

17 February 1936: The Abortion Law Reform Association was founded...

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17 February 1936

The Abortion Law Reform Association was founded to reform the law as enshrined in the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. The idea arose from a conference organized the previous year by a doctor...

1919: Alice Clark published her ground-breaking...

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1919

Alice Clark published her ground-breaking The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. She opened a new topic in history: women's work was as yet unexamined in other periods besides this one.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Clark and Pinchbeck

January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

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January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 193-195, 196-7, 199, 206-7, 214
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1938, pp. 59-81.

1823: The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany...

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1823

The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany began to appear quarterly in Edinburgh.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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5 August 1772: Polish territory was carved up between Austria,...

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5 August 1772

Polish territory was carved up between Austria, Russia, and Prussia in an event known as the Partition of Poland (or later, after Polish territory was further reduced in January 1793 and October 1795, as the...

Between 1881 and 1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,...

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Between 1881 and 1886

Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony , and Matilda Joslyn Gage published the first three volumes of their History of Woman Suffrage. They dedicated the first volume to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
3-4
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

July 1921: The Musicians' Union was founded in London...

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July 1921

The Musicians' Union was founded in London after the Amalgamated Musicians' Union and the London Orchestral Union of Professional Musicians consolidated.
“History: 1921”. The Musician’s Union.

1937: Treasure in Heaven, a novel that explores...

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1937

Treasure in Heaven, a novel that explores class conflicts, was published by Rosalind Wade .
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.

August-September 1603: In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500...

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August-September 1603

In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500 people (a tenth of the population) died in London.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
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Callow, Simon. “Every man in his humour”. The Guardian, 26 Aug. 2006, p. Review 7.
Review 7

1952: Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular...

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1952

Rosalind Franklin began her research in molecular biology at King's College .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

July 1773: The Sentimental Magazine complained about...

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July 1773

The Sentimental Magazine complained about the similarities between girls' boarding schools, irrespective of the social class of their pupils.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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May 1712: The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published...

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May 1712

The publisher Bernard Lintot edited and published Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, by several Hands.
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.

1840: Friedrich Gottlob Keller received a German...

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1840

Friedrich Gottlob Keller received a German patent for a wood-grinding machine used to make pulp for paper manufacturing.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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1887: The Adelphi Theatre was substantially en...

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1887

The Adelphi Theatre was substantially enlarged.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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1580-1640: During this period about 90 per cent of women...

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1580-1640

During this period about 90 per cent of women in London were unable to sign their names.
Smith, Hilda L. Reason’s Disciples: Seventeenth-Century English Feminists. University of Illinois Press, 1982.
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19 March 1891: The Age of Consent to Marriage Bill was passed...

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19 March 1891

The Age of Consent to Marriage Bill was passed by the IndianLegislative Council; it raised the age of consent for girls from ten to twelve.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 827
Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
35-6, 50-1

1902: The Jewish Religious Union was founded by...

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1902

The Jewish Religious Union was founded by Lily Montagu and C. J. G. Montefiore .
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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1536: Under King Henry VIII's government, the formal unification took place of England and Wales, which, west of Offa's Dyke, was then almost entirely Welsh-speaking.

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1536

Under King Henry VIII 's government, the formal unification took place of England and Wales, which, west of Offa's Dyke, was then almost entirely Welsh-speaking. This marked the first significant political union between...