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12 May 2000: The Tate Gallery in London opened a new,...

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12 May 2000

The Tate Gallery in London opened a new, separate, and larger institution: the Tate Modern on Bankside; from now on the old Tate would be known as Tate Britain .
Searle, Adrian. “Britain sees the big picture at last”. Guardian Weekly, 18–24 May 2000, p. 16.
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Tate Modern. http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm.

14 May 1771: Robert Owen, socialist, was born at Newtown...

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14 May 1771

Robert Owen , socialist, was born at Newtown in Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Wales.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By 1815: The number of capital crimes in Britain reached...

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By 1815

The number of capital crimes in Britain reached about 225 separate offences: up by at least sixty over the last fifty years, after rising steeply even before that.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
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Sir Thomas Malory

1813: The monthly Female Preceptor, essays on the...

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1813

The monthly Female Preceptor, essays on the duties of the female sex, conducted by a lady and dedicated to Hannah More , began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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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.

February 1924: The British government finally extended diplomatic...

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February 1924

The British government finally extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet regime in the USSR.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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1871: The British Government began employing women...

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1871

The British Government began employing women as clerical workers.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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September 1853: A monthly penny periodical entitled The Female...

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September 1853

A monthly penny periodical entitled The Female Missionary Intelligencer began publication in Dublin.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1839-1840: A treasury-appointed committee chose Holyhead...

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1839-1840

A treasury-appointed committee chose Holyhead in Wales as the railway terminus port for connections to Ireland.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Laurence Sterne

28 February 1897: The last Hova queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona...

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28 February 1897

The last Hova queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III , was deposed by France.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 666-8
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Mrs Ross:

The still unidentified novelist Mrs Ross , known only by her surname, published a rush of titles—seven—between 1811 and 1816. Her work is racy, highly-coloured, and heavily moralised. Later works once listed as hers have...

1891: H. S. YoungJES:need first name for Young?...

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1891

H. S. Young was fined £10 by a London court for sending birth-control pamphlets to people who announced recent births in newspapers.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
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About 1621: Thomas Middleton wrote his tragedy Women...

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About 1621

Thomas Middleton wrote his tragedy Women Beware Women; it was not published till 1657.
Middleton, Thomas, 1580 - 1627. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Editor Frost, David L., Cambridge University Press, 1978.
xvi, 187-8

Late September 1885: Justice Pinhey of the Bombay High Court gave...

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Late September 1885

Justice Pinhey of the Bombay High Court gave the first verdict in the case against Rukhmabai : that her husband 's action to compel her to cohabit with him could not be maintained. This was...

24 August 1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a broadcast...

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24 August 1941

Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a broadcast speech containing the first public reference to the ongoing holocaust in German-held territories.
Guardian Weekly.
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1915: The International Association of Women Police...

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1915

The International Association of Women Police was founded under the leadership of Alice Stebbings-Wells , a matron of the Los Angeles police force.
Carrier, John. The Campaign for the Employment of Women as Police Officers. Avebury; Gower, 1988.
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1964: Australian Aboriginal writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal...

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1964

Australian Aboriginal writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal (also known as Kath Walker ) published with Jacaranda Press of Brisbane her volume entitled We Are Going. Poems.
Lowry, Elizabeth. “The Fishman lives the lore”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, 24 Apr. 2008, pp. 26-7.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1846: The Association for the Establishment of...

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1846

The Association for the Establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Poor was established.
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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March 1941: The German Nazi Party forbade dairies to...

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March 1941

The GermanNazi Party forbade dairies to deliver milk to Jews on their milk rounds.
This information comes from the diaries of Victor Klemperer , first published in 2000.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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1837: David Nutt, with a bookshop at 158 Fleet...

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1837

David Nutt , with a bookshop at 158 Fleet Street, London, began publishing as well as selling books.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 228

1879: E. C. F. Otto patented the dicycle: a velocipede...

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1879

E. C. F. Otto patented the dicycle: a velocipede with its two wheels side by side instead of one behind the other.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.

Maria Barrell

MB was a poet before her first marriage (in the later eighteenth century, publishing regularly in magazines). Twenty years after the appearance of her own poetry volume, she was imprisoned for debt, and wrote about...

1836-1837: Forty-four new rail companies were established...

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1836-1837

Forty-four new rail companies were established in the UK.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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5 February 1811: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became...

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5 February 1811

The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became Regent in view of his father 's renewed (and, as it turned out, final) lapse into madness.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third. Collins, 1972.
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Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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