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28 July 1683: Prince George of Denmark, brother of the...

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28 July 1683

Prince George of Denmark , brother of the Danish king, married Princess Anne (the future queen) at the Palace of Whitehall, London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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1978: Philosopher Philippa Foot's most important...

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1978

Philosopher Philippa Foot 's most important essays from 1957 to 1976 were collected in Virtues and Vices.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
103-5

September 1828: Catherine McAuley opened in Baggot Street,...

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September 1828

Catherine McAuley opened in Baggot Street, Dublin, her first House of Mercy , a centre for charity and teaching.
Atkinson, Norman. Irish Education: A History of Educational Institutions. Allen Figgis, 1969.
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Later 1946: The prohibition of married women in the British...

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Later 1946

The prohibition of married women in the BritishCivil Service formally ended, although it had ended in practice during the wars.
Grint, Keith. “Women and Equality: The Acquisition of Equal Pay in the Post Office, 1870-1961”. Sociology, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1988, pp. 87-108.
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18 May 1910: At a meeting of the Scottish Typographical...

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18 May 1910

At a meeting of the Scottish Typographical Association in Edinburgh it was announced that employers would hire no more women in composing departments.
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. Pluto Press, 1983.
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August 1916: Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting...

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August 1916

Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting between suffragists and members of parliament which resulted in the election of MPs of all parties to the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform .
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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January 1783: The publishing house of John Murray launched...

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January 1783

The publishing house of John Murray launched The English Review of Literature, Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and Practical Controversies and Contests; with varying subtitles it ran until 1796.
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.
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03.
501-2

Some time in the 1850s: Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave, wrote The...

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Some time in the 1850s

Hannah Crafts , a fugitive slave, wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative; possibly the first novel by a black woman, it reached publication in 2002.
Crafts, Hannah. “Introduction”. The Bondwoman’s Narrative, edited by Henry Louis, Jr Gates, Warner Books, 2002, p. ix - lxxv.
xii, xliv-xlv, lvi

15 September 1830: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the...

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15 September 1830

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first large-scale passenger steam railway, was officially opened; public timetabled service began on 17 September.
Carlson, Robert E. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821-1831. Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
231-6
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
256
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
81, 84-5
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
17-18

3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...

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3 May 1606

An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
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1980: Lesley Abdela founded the 300 Group, an organization...

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1980

Lesley Abdela founded the 300 Group , an organization devoted to equalizing representation of women in the House of Commons .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1698: The first patent for a medicine was issu...

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1698

The first patent for a medicine was issued.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
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August 2006: A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots was given...

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August 2006

A portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots was given a prominent place in the National Portrait Gallery after it was recently discovered to date from Mary's lifetime.
National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp.
“Mary, Queen of Scots portrait likely authentic”. CBC Arts and Entertainment, 17 Aug. 2006.

22 June 1921: George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament...

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22 June 1921

George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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1908: SOS in Morse Code was settled on as the international...

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1908

SOS in Morse Code was settled on as the international distress call.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
157

July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

31 October 1848: 4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the...

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31 October 1848

4,000 people were killed in Vienna when the Imperial government reconquered the city following what is variously called by historians the second revolution and the third rising.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
160
Deák, István. “Lawful Revolutions and the Many Meanings of Freedom in the Habsburg Monarchy”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 280-14.
296-7, 308

1860: Oxford University included midwifery in its...

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1860

Oxford University included midwifery in its medical degree.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Probably 1888: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) made...

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Probably 1888

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) made its first international contact: Emilie Holyoake spoke about the WCG at the French Co-operative congress at Tours.
Blaszak, Barbara J. George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) and the Development of the British Cooperative Movement. E. Mellen, 1988.
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Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Holyoake (later Emilie Holyoake-Marsh) was the daughter of George Jacob Holyoake

1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...

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1886

Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
74, 85

1969: The Women's Football Association was est...

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1969

The Women's Football Association was established.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

5 July 1828: The Spectator was launched as a weekly in...

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5 July 1828

The Spectator was launched as a weekly in London; it was still running in the early twenty-first century.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

4 May 1904: Rolls-Royce Limited was founded for the manufacture...

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4 May 1904

Rolls-Royce Limited was founded for the manufacture of cars by Frederick Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls .
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Ann Masterman Skinn

AMS is to all intents and purposes a one-work author. Her eighteenth-century epistolary novel, The Old Maid; or, The History of Miss Ravensworth, is vigorous and highly unusual; but any other work is still untraced.

Mid-August 1960: The US space programme NASA launched the...

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Mid-August 1960

The US space programme NASA launched the pioneering communications satellite known as Echo 1. Working on the principle of a mirror, it reflected radio signals between two points on earth.
“Dispatches”. Guardian Weekly, 13 Aug. 2010, p. 33.
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