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Before 22 April 1739: Anne Dodd, for almost thirty years the best-known...

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Before 22 April 1739

Anne Dodd , for almost thirty years the best-known of all the Londonmercuries or trade publishers, died, leaving the business to her daughters.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
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1754: The Royal College of Physicians made public...

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1754

The Royal College of Physicians made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu thirty-three years before.
Hopper, Karine. “Doctors, Ministers, and Women Novelists: The Effect of Print on the Inoculation Debate in the later Eighteenth Century”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 24 Oct. 2002.

From 30 August 1976: Three nights of race riots took place at...

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From 30 August 1976

Three nights of race riots took place at the end of the annual Notting Hill Carnival, following on provocation from racist groups. Notting Hill had been the scene of race riots in 1958, instigated by...

April 1859: France and Piedmont went to war against ...

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April 1859

France and Piedmont went to war against Austria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Daphne Du Maurier

DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...
Daphne Du Maurier Sepia toned, head and shoulders photograph of the young Daphne Du Maurier. She is wearing a light dress and long string of pearls. Her wavy hair is bobbed, just reaching her jaw, and she has a heavy fringe.

6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...

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6 July 1839

In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...

876: The first known inscription of the symbol...

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876

The first known inscription of the symbol zero was made.
Bunch, Bryan, and Alexander Hellemans. The Timetables of Technology. Simon and Schuster, 1993.
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May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...

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May 1839-February 1840

Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior, William Makepeace Thackeray published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1870: George Ashley Wilson's Victory printing and...

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1870

George Ashley Wilson 's Victory printing and folding machine was first used.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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23 March 1866: The Jamaica Government Act was passed in...

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23 March 1866

The Jamaica Government Act was passed in the UK; it was the first of a number of instances in which a constitution was rewritten to incorporate rule from London.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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Wiseman, Herbert Victor. A Short History of the British West Indies. University of London Press, 1950.
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11 February 1970: Radical students at Warwick University occupied...

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11 February 1970

Radical students at Warwick University occupied the Registry and discovered political files kept by the Vice-Chancellor on individuals which were used for passing information to security staff at industrial plants in Coventry.
Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
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After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...

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After February 1806

Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea, which included the well-known poem Rose Aylmer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

By 23 September 1848: A volume of fourteen Poems by a Sempstress,...

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By 23 September 1848

A volume of fourteen Poems by a Sempstress, published by E. L. E., called for just and equal brotherhood.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1091 (1848): 957
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1091 (23 September 1848): 957
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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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.

1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...

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1701

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (a major Anglican missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...

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July 1803

An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon 's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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27 September 1962: Rachel Carson published her Silent Spring...

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27 September 1962

Rachel Carson published her Silent Spring in the USA, to immediate public response.
Guardian Weekly.
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McKie, Robin. “How to spread confusion”. Guardian Weekly, 3 Sept. 2010, pp. 38-9.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 September 2011

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

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18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
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Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
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Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
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Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
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Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy

MCA , novelist or historical romance-writer, travel-writer, author of fairy tales and scandal fictions, was highly influential in each of these roles in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, as well as...
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy Head-and-shoulders engraving of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy after a painting by Elisabeth Cheron. She wears a plain V-neck bodice with no jewellery except a metal bandolier; her hair is brushed back and frizzed. The oval portrait stands on a plinth inscribed: "Marie Catherine le Jumel de Berneville Comtesse d’Aulnoi" with the date of her death.

November 1925: Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage...

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November 1925

Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare 's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith near London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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8 December 1941: US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the...

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8 December 1941

US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the sole dissenting vote in Congress against the American declaration of war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...

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1720

The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
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1824: The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives...

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1824

The Jamaica Assembly, as representatives of the people (that is, of the white plantation owners), declared their determination to resist attempts by the British Parliament to implement abolition of slavery.
Almeida, Joselyn M. “Locating Romanticism’s Transatlantic Song”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1999, pp. 401-23.
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4 November 2008: Barack Obama (feared unelectable by some)...

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4 November 2008

Barack Obama (feared unelectable by some) was voted in the first DemocraticUS president since Bill Clinton and the first black president ever.
MacAskill, Ewen et al. “Barack Obama to be America’s first black president”. The Guardian, 5 Nov. 2008.

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.
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1940: Mary Corsellis organized the London Women's...

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1940

Mary Corsellis organized the London Women's Parliament as a venue for women to meet to discuss wages, work safety, hours, working conditions, and other issues.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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