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June 2002: The decision was taken by the state of Israel...

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June 2002

The decision was taken by the state of Israel to build a security fence to separate Palestinian from Jewish areas.
“Q&A: What is the West Bank Barrier?”. BBC News: Middle East, 15 Sept. 2005.

Melesina Trench

MT , an Anglo-Irishwoman writing from the later eighteenth century and publishing from the early nineteenth, was in one way a typical upper-class amateur writer, whose output was mostly diaries and letters, published after her...
Melesina Trench Stipple and line engraving of a painting of Melesina Trench, by Francis Holl after George Romney, published 1862. She is seated under a tree, her hands resting on a pillar, holding what looks like a sheet of music. Her gown is light-coloured, with a ruffle around the neckline, and sleeves that are puffy at the shoulder and tight below. She wears a tall bonnet or turban on her loose curled hair. National Portrait Gallery.

: Women's March in London held a March for...

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2019-01-19

Women's March in London held a March for Bread and Roses to protest against policies of austerity in the United Kingdom.
Petter, Olivia. “Women’s March 2019”. Independent, 19 Jan. 2019.
Petter, Olivia. “Women’s March 2019”. Independent, 19 Jan. 2019.

1848: Chiswick Press printed, for the first time,...

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1848

Chiswick Press printed, for the first time, John Wycliffe 's earlier version of his English New Testament, completed in 1384.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Between 1901 and 1903: The British film industry became known for...

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Between 1901 and 1903

The British film industry became known for developing the dramatic chase motif as James Williamson , the Sheffield Photo Company , and the Gaumont Company all produced films highlighting chase sequences.
Zerilli, Linda M. G. “Constructing ’Harriet Taylor’: Another Look at J. S. Mill’s Autobiography”. Constructions of the Self, edited by George Levine, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. 191-12.
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December 1847: Frederick Douglass launched his anti-slavery...

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December 1847

Frederick Douglass launched his anti-slavery periodical, North Star, in Rochester, New York, substantially aided by British abolitionist women.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
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April 1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina,...

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April 1960

At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Black students founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , or SNCC (pronounced snick) to coordinate protests against systemic racism.
“Six Years of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee”. SNCC 1960-1966.

1799: Women weavers, many of whom had replaced...

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1799

Women weavers, many of whom had replaced men enlisted in the war against France, declared that they were better off than with their men at home.
Christie, Ian. Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution. Clarendon, 1984.
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25 October 1809: A celebration was held for George III's silver...

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25 October 1809

A celebration was held for George III 's silver jubilee (coincidentally the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt).
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Susannah Dobson

SD was a later eighteenth-century medieval scholar, translator, and populariser of historical knowledge.

29 May 1911: Lloyd George announced that the Government...

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29 May 1911

Lloyd George announced that the Government would not give full facilities to the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) during the current session, but would do so in the next session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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1925: After just two years of study, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...

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1925

After just two years of study, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin earned a PhD in astronomy at Radcliffe College. It was the first doctorate awarded for research at the Harvard Observatory .
Powell, Jennifer H. “Reaching for the Stars”. The Harvard University Gazette, 19 Mar. 1998.

28 September 2012: A press release announced that the Women's...

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28 September 2012

A press release announced that the Women's Library , given notice to quit its purpose-built premises by London Metropolitan University , was to move to a new, central location under the auspices of the London...

28 November 1905: The Sinn Féin League was founded by Arthur...

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28 November 1905

The Sinn Féin League was founded by Arthur Griffith , later President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, at a meeting in Dublin.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Davis, Richard. “Arthur Griffith, 1872-1922: Architect of Modern Ireland”. History Today, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1979, pp. 139-46.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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1833: Karl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built...

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1833

Karl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber built an electric telegraph which operated over 1.25 miles.
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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Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
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Joan Whitrow

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...

1939: Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg selected...

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1939

Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg selected and published Tonight We Present; A Choice of One-Act Plays for Women, containing seven pieces.
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.
British Book News. British Council.
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4 October 1970: In a Hollywood hotel, twenty-seven-year-old...

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4 October 1970

In a Hollywood hotel, twenty-seven-year-old American singer Janis Joplin overdosed on heroin and died.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1869: US physician George Henry Taylor patented...

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1869

US physician George Henry Taylor patented a steam-powered Manipulator for vibration and massage treatment of female disorders and other complaints.
Maines, Rachel P. The Technology of Orgasm: ’Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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Charles Dickens

A prolific novelist, journalist, and editor of periodicals such as Household Words and All the Year Round, CD crucially shaped Victorian fiction both by developing it as a dialogical, multi-plotted, and socially aware form...
Charles Dickens Head-and-shoulders daguerrotype of Charles Dickens by Jeremiah Gurney of New York City, 1867-8. Dickens has a goatee beard, moustache, and hair combed forward on each side of his bald patch.

1379: The English government instituted a graduated...

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1379

The English government instituted a graduated Poll Tax and collected names of all persons over sixteen, who would be liable for payment.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Carpenter, David. “Promises, Promises”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 31-2.
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1860s: During this decade, annuals became associated...

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1860s

During this decade, annuals became associated with ghost stories, exemplified in works by Amelia B. Edwards and Charlotte Riddell .
Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle, 1967.
Collins, Arthur Simons. The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. George Routledge and Sons, 1928.
Eliot, George, and Felicia Bonaparte. Middlemarch. Editor Carroll, David, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Brown, Susan I. “The Victorian Poetess”. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 180-02.
Renier, Anne. Friendship’s Offering: An Essay on the Annuals and Gift Books of the Nineteenth Century. Private Libraries Association, 1964, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
Linley, Margaret. “A Centre That Would Not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy”. Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, St Martin’s Press, 2000, pp. 54-74.

1843: Parliament deregulated the London stage by...

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1843

Parliament deregulated the London stage by removing the restriction which had limited the number of patent or fully licensed theatres in the capital to no more than two, Covent Garden and Drury Lane .
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.

25 October 1881: Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor, was...

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25 October 1881

Pablo Picasso , painter and sculptor, was born in Malaga, Spain.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

1872: Statistics for the London water supply in...

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1872

Statistics for the London water supply in this year indicate the strengthening public health movement.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
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