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20 August 1667: As a sporting event, a very gallant horse...

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20 August 1667

As a sporting event, a very gallant horse was to be baited to death by dogs, on the pretext that it had killed a man.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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1915: The London and South Western railway line...

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1915

The London and South Western railway line was converted to electricity.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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24 January 1874: Amelia Lewis edited the first issue of Woman's...

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24 January 1874

Amelia Lewis edited the first issue of Woman's Opinion, which was published weekly, then fortnightly, in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...

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9 June 1817

Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

December 1961: A Handful of Time, a novel by Helen Foley,...

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December 1961

A Handful of Time, a novel by Helen Foley , was published.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.

By September 1952: Another edition appeared in England of Anne...

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By September 1952

Another edition appeared in England of Anne Frank 's The Diary of a Young Girl, translated from Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday and with a preface by Storm Jameson . The text was still not complete.
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 515
Flood, Alison. “MP faces copyright battle to put Anne Frank diary online”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Dec. 2015, p. 5.

November 1974: Women's Employment, a journal issued by the...

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November 1974

Women's Employment, a journal issued by the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women , ended publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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10 March 1922: Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition...

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10 March 1922

Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition in Amhedabad, India, shortly after calling off his campaigns of civil disobedience and boycotts.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 840-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
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May 1718: The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the...

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May 1718

The first newspaper in the Caribbean, the Weekly Jamaica Courant, began publication.
Overton, Bill, editor. A Letter to My Love. University of Delaware Press, 2001.
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Woodard, Colin. Republic of Pirates Blog. 8 Dec. 2007, http://republicofpirates.net/blog/2007/12/post.html.

5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...

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5 May 1816

John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt 's Examiner.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 May 2011

1941: The East London Mosque was established in...

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1941

The East London Mosque was established in Commercial Road, East London.
Sandhu, Sukhdev. “Come hungry, leave edgy”. London Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2003, pp. 10-13.
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November 1850: Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the...

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November 1850

Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Diana Primrose:

DP is an unidentified early seventeenth-century poet who calls herself a Noble Lady;
Primrose, Diana. “A Chaine of Pearle”. The Poets I, edited by Susanne Woods et al., Facsimile, Ashgate, 2001.
title-page
she has royalist and some feminist ideas.

1848: Astronomer Maria Mitchell was the first woman...

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1848

Astronomer Maria Mitchell was the first woman elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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February 1860: Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the...

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February 1860

Alfred Tennyson published Tithonus in the Cornhill Magazine.
Tennyson, Alfred. Tennyson’s Poetry. Editor Hill, Robert W., Jr, W. W. Norton, 1971.
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Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
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1936: The UK firm Morphy Richards began to produce...

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1936

The UK firm Morphy Richards began to produce radiant electric fires and irons.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
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1955: The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...

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1955

The University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was founded at Mount Pleasant, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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20 September 1917: The Military Voters Act allowed women who...

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20 September 1917

The Military Voters Act allowed women who were British subjects, and who had close relatives in the armed forces, to vote in national elections on behalf of their male relatives.
“Women’s Right to Vote in Canada”. Paarliament of Canada: A to Z Index: Women, 1 Feb. 1999.

1896: Theodor Herzl published, both in German and...

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1896

Theodor Herzl published, both in German and English, his foundational Zionist text The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Caroline Leakey

CL is best known for her only novel, The Broad Arrow, which is based on observations made during her five-year residence in Tasmania. Her critique of the Australian penal system features a strong...

8 March 1763: William Thomas's diary notes that an old...

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8 March 1763

William Thomas 's diary notes that an old woman buried this day was universally feared in the neighbourhood (south-east Glamorgan) as a witch.
Howell, David W. “Review of R. T. W. Denning, ed., The Diary of William Thomas, 1762-1795, 1995”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 100-1.
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18 October 1977: Three imprisoned members of the West German,...

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18 October 1977

Three imprisoned members of the West German, left-wing urban guerilla or terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction or the Baader-Meinhof Gang committed suicide in Stammheim prison near Stuttgart.
Fromme, Claudia. “Baader-Meinhof: The truth behind the twisted myth”. Times Online, 12 Nov. 2008.

1819: Prince Pomare of Tahiti built a massive Christian...

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1819

Prince Pomare of Tahiti built a massive Christian church with the help of members of the London Missionary Society ; he was baptised there in front of 4,000 citizens, and Christianity spread throughout the island.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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7 October 1950: China invaded Tibet....

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7 October 1950

China invaded Tibet.
Macfarlane, Robert. “The Nominated Boy”. London Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2001, pp. 30-2.
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Eliza Nugent Bromley

ENB was the author of four melodramatic, sentimental novels dating from 1784 to 1803. Three are epistolary. The last one masquerades as an adaptation from an Italian original. A play and an opera by her...
Eliza Nugent Bromley Cover of reprint from Eighteenth Century Collections Online of Eliza Nugent Bromley's "Laura and Augustus; an Authentic Story in a Series of Letters, by a Young Lady", vol. i. The background to the lettering is a map.