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By 14 April 1561: Sir Thomas Hoby's The Courtyer, translated...

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By 14 April 1561

Sir Thomas Hoby 's The Courtyer, translated from Baldassare Castiglione 's Il Cortegiano, was entered at the Stationers' Company ; it was published the same year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

May 1883: The London Metropolitan Police paid a woman...

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May 1883

The LondonMetropolitan Police paid a woman to visit female convicts.
Levine, Philippa. “Walking the Streets in a Way No Decent Woman Should: Women Police in World War I”. Journal of Modern History, Vol.
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, No. 1, Mar. 1994, pp. 34-78.
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Carrier, John. The Campaign for the Employment of Women as Police Officers. Avebury; Gower, 1988.
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1933: The Women's Health Enquiry Committee questioned...

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1933

The Women's Health Enquiry Committee questioned a sample of 1,250 working-class women and found that almost half had been diagnosed as anaemic.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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28 May 1911: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard...

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28 May 1911

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard was first performed in England (in Constance Garnett 's translation): by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Taylor, John Russell, editor. The Penguin Dictionary of Theatre. 3rd ed., Penguin, 1993.
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Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
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Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25.
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By late October 1920: Flora Murray wrote about her war experience...

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By late October 1920

Flora Murray wrote about her war experience in Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919.
“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
980 (28 October 1920): 701

1912: Under a new constitution, the Association...

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1912

Under a new constitution, the Association of Shorthand Writers and Typists excluded male members and changed its name to the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries .
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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June 1921: Nansen passports were first issued by the...

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June 1921

Nansen passports were first issued by the League of Nations to identify refugees and stateless persons. Dr Fridjtof Nansen , Norwegian Arctic explorer appointed League of Nations Commissioner for refugees, was awarded the Nobel Peace...

October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...

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October 1822

Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt briefly published at Pisa.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xvii
Pinto gives the date as October...

1884: The Marine Biological Association was fo...

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1884

The Marine Biological Association was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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8 November 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen or Roentgen of Germany discovered...

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8 November 1895

Wilhelm Röntgen or Roentgen of Germany discovered the x-ray.
Popular Science. Popular Science Publishing.
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By April 2004: The City of London (which till the 1960s...

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By April 2004

The City of London (which till the 1960s banned buildings taller than St Paul's Cathedral) acquired a new giant: the Swiss Re Tower at 10 St Mary Axe, designed by Norman Foster of...

1830-42: Auguste Comte published Cours de philosophie...

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1830-42

Auguste Comte published Cours de philosophie positive in six volumes.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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.

1823: The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual...

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1823

The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery was formed in London, with the non-confrontational agenda that its name implies.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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1758-63: Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished,...

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1758-63

Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished, unpublished prose-poem or liturgy poem Jubilate Agno.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.

27 August 1841: US author James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer,...

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27 August 1841

US author James Fenimore Cooper 's The Deerslayer, the last of the Leather-Stocking Tales, appeared in print.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
724 (1841): 708
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 August 2010

8 August 1864: The first Geneva Convention met to debate...

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8 August 1864

The first Geneva Convention met to debate whether relief societies should be formed to aid the wounded in times of war; it ran until 22 August.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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February 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the BASIC...

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February 1975

Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the BASIC programming system for the Altair 8800.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
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1933: Lucy Webling, as Lucy Betty MacRaye, published...

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1933

Lucy Webling , as Lucy Betty MacRaye, published her first novel, One Way Street.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.

1861: The paper tax, or excise duty on paper, was...

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1861

The paper tax, or excise duty on paper, was abolished.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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1780: Of 21,000 children whose births were registered...

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1780

Of 21,000 children whose births were registered in Paris this year, only 5 per cent were fed their mothers' milk.
Jolly, Alison. “Keep Me”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, pp. 23-4.
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1 April 1841: Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia...

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1 April 1841

Graham's Magazine, published in Philadelphia (which had Edgar Allan Poe on its staff and published much of his work), carried his The Murders in the Rue Morgue, often called the first detective story.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 April 2008

Emma Marshall

EM 's output as a writer during the latter part of the nineteenth century amounted to almost two hundred volumes: a rate of production necessitated by the bank crash which lost her husband his job...

1563: Parliament, recognising that the voluntary...

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1563

Parliament, recognising that the voluntary system of poor relief had failed, empowered local justices to extract compulsory levies.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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20 September 1889: Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses...

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20 September 1889

Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses was inaugurated.
White, Rosemary. Social Change and the Development of the Nursing Profession: A Study of the Poor Law Nursing Service, 1848-1948. H. Kimpton, 1978.
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Scanlan, Pauline. The Irish Nurse: A Study of Nursing in Ireland. Drumlin, 1991.
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Rivers, John. Dame Rosalind Paget, 1855-1948: A Short Account of Her Life and Work. Midwives Chronicle, 1981.
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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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30 July 1746: Officers of the Manchester Regiment, which...

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30 July 1746

Officers of the Manchester Regiment , which had fought for Prince Charles Edward at the battle of Culloden, were hanged, drawn, and quartered in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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