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November 1851: The United Kingdom and France signed a copyright...

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November 1851

The United Kingdom and France signed a copyright agreement.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
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1909: Mrs and Miss Earle of England established...

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1909

Mrs and Miss Earle of England established the English Institute of Beauty at 279 rue St Honore in Paris.
Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
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1830: William Kidd founded his own bookselling...

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1830

William Kidd founded his own bookselling and publishing firm at 6 Old Bond Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 162-3

April 1916: The Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise...

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April 1916

The Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Review ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1985: Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother...

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1985

Kim Cotton became the first surrogate mother in Britain.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

Mona Caird

MC , until recently very little remembered, caused a sensation in 1888 with her articles calling for reform in marriage practices. She was already at that date a published novelist, and went on issuing novels...

By 23 Feburary 1856: Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and my Freedom,...

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By 23 Feburary 1856

Frederick Douglass ' My Bondage and my Freedom, published in New York the previous year, was reviewed in London.
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.

Naomi Mitchison

During her life of over a century (she narrowly missed living from the nineteenth into the twenty-first) NM averaged almost a book a year. She published novels, short stories, diaries, poetry, travel books, essays, and...
Naomi Mitchison Black-and-white portrait of Naomi Mitchison. Her hair is pinned at the sides of her head in two buns and she is wearing a fuzzy sweater with two pom poms at the collar.

July 1753: James Nelson published an Essay on the Government...

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July 1753

James Nelson published an Essay on the Government of Children.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1 April 1939: General Franco, Nationalist victor in the...

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1 April 1939

General Franco , Nationalist victor in the Spanish Civil War, declared the conflict over. Republican soldiers had been fleeing over the border to France for some time, and Madrid had fallen on 28 March.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
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15 March 1773: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...

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15 March 1773

Oliver Goldsmith 's She Stoops to Conquer (second of his two comedies) had its first performance.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
5: 89

14 September 2011: The clock began ticking for a five-week period...

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14 September 2011

The clock began ticking for a five-week period during which, under the auspices of the Society of Authors , a number of British authors and tweeters (including Sarah Waters ) collaborated on a tweetathon...

1850: A Royal Commission was appointed to examine...

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1850

A Royal Commission was appointed to examine the workings of the British legal system, particularly the law on divorce.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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1946: Universal adult suffrage was gained in T...

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1946

Universal adult suffrage was gained in Trinidad.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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October 1972: The Scottish Women's Temperance News ended...

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October 1972

The Scottish Women's Temperance News ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1869: For the first time, upscale French evening...

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1869

For the first time, upscale French evening dresses featured a sewn-in label displaying the manufacturer's name.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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22 October 1892: A locomotive in England sank sixty-one metres...

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22 October 1892

A locomotive in England sank sixty-one metres into the earth after the ground, weakened from extensive mining, collapsed.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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30 December 1782: A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge...

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30 December 1782

A print entitled Beauty in search of Knowledge showed a fashionably-clad young woman in front of a circulating-library window featuring modishly scandalous material.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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1819: Arthur Schopenhauer published The World as...

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1819

Arthur Schopenhauer published The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung), written in 1818.
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.

April 1936: The League of Nations mounted an investigation...

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April 1936

The League of Nations mounted an investigation into Italy's alleged use of poison gas in its invasion of Ethiopia (violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol).
Waal, Alex de. “Dangers of Discretion”. London Review of Books, 21 Jan. 1999, pp. 27-9.
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1830-1836: Some periodical publishers protested against...

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1830-1836

Some periodical publishers protested against the Stamp Act by selling their periodicals unstamped.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
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19 May 1900: The UK declared a protectorate over the Tonga...

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19 May 1900

The UK declared a protectorate over the Tonga Islands.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 957
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
925

21 February to July 1916: The battle of Verdun raged intermittently...

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21 February to July 1916

The battle of Verdun raged intermittently throughout these months. In this longest and most devastating battle of the Great War, the Germans failed in their attempt to destroy the French army by bleeding it to...

1737: A draft Booksellers Bill provided for rights...

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1737

A draft Booksellers Bill provided for rights to revert to the author after ten years, and for anonymous authors to claim copyright through someone registering on their behalf.
Stern, Simon. “Gender and Copyright in the Eighteenth Century”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 27 Mar. 1999.

12 November 1734 - 2 July 1736: Aaron Hill (with sporadic help from William...

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12 November 1734 - 2 July 1736

Aaron Hill (with sporadic help from William Popple and perhaps Eustace Budgell ) edited a twice-weekly periodical entitled The Prompter.
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.