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25 July 1968: Less than two months into his pontificate,...

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25 July 1968

Less than two months into his pontificate, Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae on The Regulation of Birth, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church 's anti-contraceptive position.
Paul VI, Pope. “Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth): Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, promulgated on 25 July 1968”. EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network): Libraries: Document Library.

March 1894: George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel...

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March 1894

George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel whose eponymous heroine is a servant and a struggling single mother.
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

: Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, who was black,...

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Summer 1955

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till , who was black, was brutally murdered at a little town called Money in the Mississippi Delta for having either whistled or called Bye, baby after a white woman.
Younge, Gary. “Murder that powered a revolution”. Guardian Weekly, 17–23 June 2005, p. 20.
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1955: The year of her death, Beatrice Kean Seymour's...

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1955

The year of her death, Beatrice Kean Seymour 's The Painted Lath was published by Heinemann .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1913: The Sweated Industries Exhibition demonstrated...

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1913

The Sweated Industries Exhibition demonstrated the horrible working conditions of sweated workers.
King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
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July 1869: The Hospital for Women in Soho Square introduced...

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July 1869

The Hospital for Women in Soho Square introduced the first pay block wing in the United Kingdom.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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18 December 1933: Newfoundland's Constitution was suspended...

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18 December 1933

Newfoundland's Constitution was suspended owing to bankruptcy.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
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Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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4 March 1712: Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose...

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4 March 1712

Jane Wenham was tried for witchcraft (whose manifestation was flying through the air) at Hertford; the jury found her guilty, but the judge reprieved her and later got her pardoned.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Bostridge, Ian. Witchcraft and its Transformations, c. 1650-1750. Clarendon Press, 1997.
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1 February 1884: The first section (A-Ant) of A New English...

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1 February 1884

The first section (A-Ant) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, also known as the Oxford English Dictionary, was published.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Mary Palmer

MP wrote, in the earlier part of the eighteenth century, some lively dialogues which may be the earliest literary writing to use the local dialect of Devon. They remained unpublished for nearly a hundred...
Mary Palmer Title-page of Mary Palmer's "A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect", probably written in the mid eighteenth century and published in 1837.

January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...

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January 1661

Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II .
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691. The Journal. Editor Smith, Nigel, Penguin, 1998.
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1953: The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in...

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1953

The Kinsey Report on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female was published.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1807: The world's first scheduled passenger service...

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1807

The world's first scheduled passenger service by steamboat opened, plying up the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York.
Jones, Jonathan. “A river runs through it”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Mar. 2002, p. 16.
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11 December 1957: The first European School opened in a new...

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11 December 1957

The first European School opened in a new building constructed in the shape of a giant E, in the Boulevard de la Foire in Luxembourg. It aimed to impart an international education, and half...

George Eliot

GE , one of the major novelists of the nineteenth century and a leading practitioner of fictional realism, was a professional woman of letters who also worked as an editor and journalist, and left a...
George Eliot Portrait of George Eliot, seated, after the 1881 painting of Francois Albert Durade.

19 July 1904: King Edward VII laid the foundation stone...

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19 July 1904

King Edward VII laid the foundation stone for Liverpool Cathedral, built to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott .
“The Cathedral”. 1904-2004: Liverpool Cathedral.

Early 1870s: Women wore their hair in immense braided...

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Early 1870s

Women wore their hair in immense braided chignons at the nape of the neck; like the false snood, these chignons were often composed of add-ons to the wearer's own hair.
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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August 1942: Because of the almost daily German air attacks,...

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August 1942

Because of the almost daily German air attacks, women not employed full-time were required to accept fire-watching duties throughout Great Britain.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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November 1915: Women's Police Volunteers were recognized...

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November 1915

Women's Police Volunteers were recognized by the Grantham Town Council as members of the local police force, becoming the first paid women police in local forces in Great Britain.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
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12 November 1919: Mary Harris Smith became the first woman...

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12 November 1919

Mary Harris Smith became the first woman admitted to the BritishSociety of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors .
Silverstone, Rosalie. “Accountancy”. Careers of Professional Women, edited by Rosalie Silverstone and Audrey Ward, Croom Helm, 1980.
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December 1921: Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and John...

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December 1921

Frederick Banting , Charles Best , and John J. R. Macleod presented a paper to the American Physiological Society on Banting and Best's discovery of insulin, while working in Macleod's labratory in Toronto.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
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2001: The National Eisteddfod of Wales for the...

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2001

The National Eisteddfod of Wales for the first time appointed a woman—Mererid Hopwood , a 37-year-old self-employed mother of three—Chair and Chief Poet.
The Feminist Library Newsletter. The Feminist Library.
(Summer 2001): 2

November 1835: Théophile Gautier published Mademoiselle...

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November 1835

Théophile Gautier published Mademoiselle de Maupin.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Charles, vicomte de, and Théophile Gautier. “Bibliographical Notice”. Mademoiselle de Maupin, translated by. I. G. Burnham and I. G. Burnham, G. Barrie, 1897, p. vii - xvi.
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15 March 1866: Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state...

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15 March 1866

Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state regulation of prostitutes with the introduction in Parliament of An Act for the Better Prevention of Contagious Diseases at certain Naval and Military Stations.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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24 September 1952: Customs at the Port of London seized (with...

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24 September 1952

Customs at the Port of London seized (with no right of appeal) nudist magazines from the Continent and obtained a destruction order.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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