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After 11 March 1618: Samuel Daniel published The Collection of...

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After 11 March 1618

Samuel Daniel published The Collection of the Historie of England, an account concentrating on the later middle ages from the Norman Conquest; he had issued a First Part in 1612.
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

20 February 1864: Painter George Frederic Watts married the...

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20 February 1864

Painter George Frederic Watts married the young stage-star Ellen Terry , thirty years his junior.
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
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18 March 1836: The Hudson Bay Company's Beaver, the first...

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18 March 1836

The Hudson Bay Company 's Beaver, the first steamer on the northern Pacific, arrived at Fort Vancouver.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1769: James Watt received a patent (number 913)...

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1769

James Watt received a patent (number 913) for his first condensing steam engine, whose scientific principles he had discovered in 1764.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Constance Lytton

Apart from her warm and witty private correspondence, CL is remembered as a writer solely in connection with her early-twentieth-century suffrage involvement, particularly her one-woman campaign to prove that the British government was treating political...
Constance Lytton Black and white photograph of Constance Lytton, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a white dress and a beaded necklace, and her dark hair is pulled into a dark bun on the top of her head.

26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...

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26 October 1950

The BBC made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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18 January 1341: Queen's College, Oxford, was founded; it...

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18 January 1341

Queen's College , Oxford, was founded; it was originally named Quene Hall.
Rashdall, Hastings. Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Editors Powicke, Sir Frederick Maurice and Alfred Brotherston Emden, Clarendon, 1987, 3 vols.
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Hodgkin, Robert Howard. Six Centuries of an Oxford College: A History of the Queen’s College, 1340-1940. Blackwell, 1949.
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The founding date is also given as 18 January 1340, according to Old Style, which continued the old year until 25 March.

Elizabeth Bury

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...
Elizabeth Bury Oval line print of Elizabeth Bury by J. Burden, 1777 (more that fifty years after her death). Her hair is fashionably styled on top of her head with a couple of locks hanging down. She is wearing a dress with white at neckline and cuffs and her name, " Mrs. Elizabeth Bury", is written below.

July 1848: Austrian troops restored the Grand Duke to...

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July 1848

Austrian troops restored the Grand Duke to his throne in Tuscany, having successfully suppressed the republic there.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Sarah, Lady Cowper

SLC is best remembered for the diaries which she kept between 1700 and 1716 and for the eleven volumes of commonplace-books in which, from 1670 till 1700, she recorded excerpts from her voracious and highly...
Sarah, Lady Cowper Photograph of a half-length painting probably of Sarah, Lady Cowper, by one of the circle of Enoch Seeman. She wears an ivory gown with a lace-filled décolleté, and a contrasting blue band at waist and sleeves. Her dark hair is piled on top of her head.

1 August 1759: British troops fought their only pitched...

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1 August 1759

British troops fought their only pitched battle in Europe during the Seven Years' War: at Minden, near Hanover.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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June 1917: The Friendly Leaves ended publication in...

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June 1917

The Friendly Leaves ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1908: The Cuala Press of Dublin published its first...

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1908

The Cuala Press of Dublin published its first two titles; it was the successor to the Dun Emer Press , founded by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats , sisters of the poet .
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.

1655: The Commonwealth government under Cromwell...

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1655

The Commonwealth government under Cromwell clamped down on non-government-sanctioned periodicals.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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5 June 1977: Wangari Maathai and other women, the nucleus...

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5 June 1977

Wangari Maathai and other women, the nucleus of the Green Belt Movement , planted seven trees at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, to mark World Environment Day (established on this day in 1972 by...

October 1981: Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister of Egypt, was...

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October 1981

Anwar Sadat , Prime Minister of Egypt, was assassinated by an Islamic-supremacist army officer, who said of his act, I shot the Pharaoh.
Shlaim, Avi. “A History of Disappointment”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2000, pp. 18-19.
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September 1727: Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned...

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September 1727

Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned in the colophon but with his name signed to the dedication) Whartoniana in two volumes, often referred to as the work of Philip, Duke of Wharton .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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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.

Margaret Tyler

MT wrote and published, in the later sixteenth century, an English translation of a large segment of a still larger Spanish romance of chivalry, together with comments on her own authorship in relation to her...

December 1943: Women's membership in trades unions stood...

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December 1943

Women's membership in trades unions stood at 1,870,000.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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1851: The first nationally funded institutions...

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1851

The first nationally funded institutions for scientific education, the School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology , were established.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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1758: James Ralph, political writer, historian,...

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1758

James Ralph , political writer, historian, and reviewer, argued in The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated that in the post-patronage age authors were slaves to publishers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

24 May 2019: Thousands of children in more than a hundred...

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24 May 2019

Thousands of children in more than a hundred nations around the world missed school to march in the streets demanding action from their respective governments to tackle the crisis of climate change.
Taylor, Matthew. “Schoolchildren go on strike across world over climate crisis”. theguardian.com, 24 May 2019.

September 1946: An International Labour Organization study...

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September 1946

An International Labour Organization study concluded that a sound and scientific basis for the employment of women is being increasingly advocated as serving the cause of democracy and as promoting the general welfare.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. Tavistock, 1980.
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By 11 September 1730: Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour,...

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By 11 September 1730

Stephen Duck published The Thresher's Labour, a georgic poem that was unique as an account of labour by a labouring man.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.

1883: In Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra),...

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1883

In Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra), Friedrich Nietzsche coined his idea of the lastman, as the citizen of a democray, who has, Nietsche thought, abandoned self-mastery and settled for living as a slave.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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