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: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded...

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Autumn 1848

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy .
Bell, Quentin. Victorian Artists. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
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Chilvers, Ian, editor. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Maas, Jeremy. Victorian Painters. Barrie and Jenkins, 1978.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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Knight, Joseph, 1829 - 1907. The Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Kennikat Press, 1972.
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1879: The Jersey Costume was introduced by Redfern's;...

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1879

The Jersey Costume was introduced by Redfern's ; it was made fashionable for a time by Lillie Langtry .
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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15 July 1662: The Royal Society was chartered by the king...

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15 July 1662

The Royal Society was chartered by the king from the existing philosophic society centred on Gresham's College .
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
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Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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During the 1790s: Sarah Bache ran a school for girls in Is...

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During the 1790s

Sarah Bache ran a school for girls in Islington.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1902: Popular operatic tenor Enrico Caruso began...

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1902

Popular operatic tenor Enrico Caruso began making records for the gramophone.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
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1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...

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1974

African American activist Angela Davis published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.

November 1894: Walter Arnold imported the first Benz car...

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November 1894

Walter Arnold imported the first Benz car into England and manufactured the first English cars at East Peckham, Kent, based on Benz's model.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Richardson, Kenneth, and C. N. O’Gallagher. The British Motor Industry 1896-1939. Macmillan, 1977.
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1828: The Tower of London armouries opened. These...

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1828

The Tower of London armouries opened. These displays of medieval armor and weapons attracted up to 40,000 visitors a year after the opening, indicating the extent of the interest in the Middle Ages.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

May 1921: American pilot Laura Brownell set a world...

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May 1921

American pilot Laura Brownell set a world record for women by performing the loop-the-loop one hundred and ninety-nine times.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1808: Arthur Young's General Report on Enclosures,...

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1808

Arthur Young 's General Report on Enclosures, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture , performed the analysis that its title suggests. An appendix traced, county by county, the effects of enclosure on the rural poor.
Easton, Celia A. “Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: the Sense and Sensibility of Land Reform”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2002, pp. 71-89.
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About 1470: The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the...

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About 1470

The Distaff Gospels, a collection of the beliefs, proverbs, stories, medical and cookery recipes, and advice of medieval peasant women, is assigned to this date by its editors, Kathleen Garay and Madeleine Jeay .
“Scriptorium: Distaff Gospels”. McMaster University: Libraries: e-Resources: Medieval Women: An Interactive Exploration, 2000.
Broadview Press. http://www.broadviewpress.com/.

19 December 1932: The BBC launched the Empire Service; this...

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19 December 1932

The BBC launched the Empire Service; this developed into the World Service , broadcasting around the world.
Guardian Weekly.
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By 16 July 1887: H. Rider Haggard published his novel Allan...

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By 16 July 1887

H. Rider Haggard published his novel Allan Quartermain.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.
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6 April 1847: Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance...

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6 April 1847

Covent Garden Theatre re-opened (with a performance of Rossini 's Semiramide) as The Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden .
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
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“AbouttheHouse: History”. Royal Opera House.

1916: Four years before American women won the...

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1916

Four years before American women won the right to the suffrage (on 18 August 1920) Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the USCongress .
Loth, Renée. “A Lone Woman’s Voice”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 18-19.
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1851-1871: During this period, the population of the...

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1851-1871

During this period, the population of the old City of London decreased from 128,000 to 75,000.
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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1863: The Metropolitan Police in London founded...

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1863

The Metropolitan Police in London founded its first dedicated vice squad, consisting of a sergeant and two constables employed in the suppression of obscene materials.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1986: Jacqueline Rudet's dramatic work Money to...

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1986

Jacqueline Rudet 's dramatic work Money to Live and an associated afterword were included in Plays By Women, edited by Mary Remnant .
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.

17 December 1867: The first three of the eventual four volumes...

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17 December 1867

The first three of the eventual four volumes of Tolstoy 's epoch-making historical novel War and Peace were announced in a Moscow newspaper as available.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
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Gifford, Henry. Tolstoy. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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30 June 1846: Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later...

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30 June 1846

Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later created first Earl Russell) was invited to form the UK government following the resignation of Sir Robert Peel , a Conservative .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1905: The British government passed the first Aliens...

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1905

The British government passed the first Aliens Act to limit immigration.
Harding, Jeremy. “The Uninvited”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 3-25.
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Sandhu, Sukhdev. “Come hungry, leave edgy”. London Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2003, pp. 10-13.
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Lerman, Antony. “Pollutants”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 7 Nov. 2013, pp. 31-2.
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20 February 1909: F. T. Marinetti's Founding Manifesto of Futurism,...

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20 February 1909

F. T. Marinetti 's Founding Manifesto of Futurism, declaring the Futurists' intent to destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, was published on the front page of Le Figaro,
Fisher, Mark. “Objections to the Object”. Times Literary Supplement, 22 Mar. 2002, pp. 13-14.
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1899: Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An...

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1899

Mary Lucy Pendered published her novel An Englishman: A Romance of a Shop. It appeared in a revised edition thirteen years later.
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.

Late 1860s: The English Woman's Domestic Magazine ran...

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Late 1860s

The English Woman's Domestic Magazine ran a correspondence about corsets for female children.
Pollitt, Katha. “Our Soft-Shelled Condition”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 32-3.
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End of January 1908: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

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End of January 1908

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies sent a deputation to discuss the issue of women's suffrage with Herbert Asquith .
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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