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1834: Mazzini and several hundred supporters planned...

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1834

Mazzini and several hundred supporters planned an invasion of Savoy to overthrow the King of Piedmont.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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9 August 1946: The Arts Council of Great Britain received...

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9 August 1946

The Arts Council of Great Britain received its royal charter; its purpose was to make fine arts more accessible to the public by organizing exhibitions and preserving art.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra in England: A Social History. Jonathan Cape, 1956.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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White, Eric W. The Arts Council of Great Britain. Davis-Poynter, 1975.
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August 1939: Royal Assent was given for the establishment...

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August 1939

Royal Assent was given for the establishment of the British Overseas Airways Corporation , an amalgamation of Imperial Airways and British Airways .
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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30 December 1793: The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne...

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30 December 1793

The botanist and collector Anna Blackburne died: the Gentleman's Magazine obituary praised her scientific work as well as her virtues.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
64 (1794): 180

By 28 March 1874: William Stubbs published his Constitutional...

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By 28 March 1874

William Stubbs published his Constitutional History of England.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2422 (1874): 419

April 1918: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was renamed...

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April 1918

The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was renamed Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps .
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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1971: In a crucial parliamentary vote on Britain's...

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1971

In a crucial parliamentary vote on Britain's future entry into the European Community or Common Market, Conservative members plus 68 pro-European Labour members voted in favour.
Marquand, David. “Roy Jenkins”. Guardian Weekly, 9–15 Jan. 2003, p. 19.
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1811: This year the war against Napoleon cost the...

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1811

This year the war against Napoleon cost the British government 56 million pounds (nearly three times the 20 million it had cost in the year 1794).
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...

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21 April 2011

Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman Catholic Church , with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.
“News”. BBC Radio Four.

Queen Victoria

From a young age, Queen Victoria wrote extensive journals, two of which were published with great success during her lifetime. Other selections from her journals, collections of her letters, and drawings and watercolours from her...
Queen Victoria Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

: John Bateman published The Acre-Ocracy of...

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1877

John Bateman published The Acre-Ocracy of England, which was revised and reprinted between 1878 and 1883 as The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, and was popularly known as The New Doomsday...

1897: Irish writer Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, as...

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1897

Irish writer Charlotte O'Conor Eccles , as Hal Godfrey, published The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: a farcical novel.
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.
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.

By 8 June 1878: Sir Henry Morton Stanley published Through...

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By 8 June 1878

Sir Henry Morton Stanley published Through the Dark Continent, an account of his explorations in Africa.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2641 (1878): 723

By 1842: Almost 2,000 miles of railway track spanned...

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By 1842

Almost 2,000 miles of railway track spanned Britain from Southampton in the south to Newcastle in the north.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
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February 1948: In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech...

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February 1948

In what was then Czechoslovakia the Czech Communist Party achieved a majority in what had been a coalition government, and instituted hardline Stalin ist rule.
“Timeline of the Cold War”. Thinkquest: Library.

1 November 1953: The BBC made its first television broadcast...

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1 November 1953

The BBC made its first television broadcast of Anglican Holy Communion.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...

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1899

Clara Barton , founder of the American Red Cross , became the first woman to make a submarine descent.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1864: Samuel Crowther became the first black man...

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1864

Samuel Crowther became the first black man to be appointed a bishop in Africa.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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1983: Aileen La Tourette contributed the stories...

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1983

Aileen La Tourette contributed the stories Passing and Cupiditas to Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones .
La Tourette, Aileen. “Passing”. Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber and Faber, 1983, pp. 178-81.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

25 August 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to...

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25 August 1932

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the United States in a non-stop flight.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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September to November 1929: Book production rose to an unprecedented...

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September to November 1929

Book production rose to an unprecedented sixty titles per day, most of them novels.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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29 July 1986: George Allen and Unwin Limited and Bell and...

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29 July 1986

George Allen and Unwin Limited and Bell and Hyman Limited merged to form Unwin Hyman Limited .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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1717: The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany...

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1717

The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany entitled The Agreeable Variety by its female editor included Behn , Philips , Chudleigh , and Finch .
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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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.

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne

COLN was a significant member of the Scottish ballad revival, writing or radically revising something like eighty songs in the final decade of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth. Their various forms notably include...
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne Photograph of a painting of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, by John Watson Gordon, c. 1818. She is shown from the waist up, wearing a black dress with a white collar, and yellow trim at the sleeves. Her dark curled hair is visible around her face; the rest is covered by a white cap with a sheer veil hanging behind. Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

1988: Peepal Tree published the novel The Last...

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1988

Peepal Tree published the novel The Last English Plantation by Jan Shinebourne .
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.