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1763: General Jeffrey Amherst, British commander...

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General Jeffrey Amherst , British commander in North America, suggested that smallpox might advantageously be introduced among the disaffected tribes of Indians currently being led in rebellion by Pontiac .
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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22 April 1901: William Stubbs, historian, died....

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22 April 1901

William Stubbs , historian, died.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

November 1912: In the Conservative and Unionist Women's...

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November 1912

In the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Review, the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association argued in favour of women's franchise in Ireland on the grounds that it would delay full adult suffrage.
Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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Murphy, Cliona. The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Irish Society in the Early Twentieth Century. Temple University Press, 1989.
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10 December 1824: Novelist George MacDonald was born at Upper...

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10 December 1824

Novelist George MacDonald was born at Upper Pirriesmill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Louisa Baldwin

Over the course of her writing career (during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth), LB published four novels, two collections of children's stories, one collection of gothic ghost stories...
Louisa Baldwin Photograph of a painting of Louisa Baldwin by Edward Poynter. The background (patterned wallpaper, a painting on the wall, ornaments) is mostly blue. She sits in a carved black chair, wearing a simple black dress with four strands of blue beads around her neck, and a paper fan clasped in her hands.

Ellen Mary Clerke

EMC , active during the second half of the nineteenth century, was a well-known linguist who published translations of Italian verse. In addition, she wrote poetry, published a novel, and was a frequent contributor to...

4 January 1894: Lady Henry Somerset and Annie E. Holdsworth...

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4 January 1894

Lady Henry Somerset and Annie E. Holdsworth published in London the first issue of the Woman's Signal, a weekly magazine addressing temperance issues, and also broader topics such as suffrage, working conditions, and domestic...

2 November 1789: The French National Assembly voted to expropriate...

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2 November 1789

The French National Assembly voted to expropriate and nationalize church property.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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15 July 1819: Byron began to publish in instalments (opening...

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15 July 1819

Byron began to publish in instalments (opening with cantos one and two) his satirical mock-epic poem Don Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...

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December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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9 July 1754: General Braddock had a force wiped out at...

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9 July 1754

General Braddock had a force wiped out at the Monongahela River in America by Indians who had been hidden in the trees.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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October 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army crossed...

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October 1745

The Young Pretender 's Jacobite army crossed the border from Scotland into England.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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19 February 1910: The opera Elektra by Richard Strauss was...

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19 February 1910

The opera Elektra by Richard Strauss was first performed in London: at Covent Garden , conducted by Thomas Beecham .
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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Autumn 1846: The recently-married Duchess of Marlborough...

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Autumn 1846

The recently-married Duchess of Marlborough was reputed to have shot eight deer by her own hand; this qualified her as a fast woman.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

1881: Harvard Observatory began employing women...

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1881

Harvard Observatory began employing women to analyze photographs of star fields.
Powell, Jennifer H. “Reaching for the Stars”. The Harvard University Gazette, 19 Mar. 1998.

1838: Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for...

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1838

Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for Lord Brougham , a vehicle in a new style, the first brougham.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1899: The Church of England Temperance Society...

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1899

The Church of England Temperance Society had as many as 200,000 members, belonging to 7,000 branches across the country.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1872-1876: The HMS Challenger, under the scientific...

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1872-1876

The HMS Challenger, under the scientific direction of Charles Wyville Thomson , sailed around the world in order to sound and dredge in three great ocean basins, to collect all possible flora and fauna at...

June 1920: The British Communist Party was founded—in...

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June 1920

The British Communist Party was founded—in a year when socialism was militant in Britain, and when Churchill sent tanks against Communists in Glasgow as well as in Poland.
Rattenbury, Arnold. “How the sanity of poets can be edited away”. London Review of Books, 14 Oct. 1999, pp. 15-19.
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5 October-1 November 1936: Ellen Wilkinson (nicknamed Red Ellen), Member...

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5 October-1 November 1936

Ellen Wilkinson (nicknamed Red Ellen), Member of Parliament for the shipbuilding town of Jarrow, led two hundred unemployed men on a Hunger March from their hometown to London.
Mingay, Gordon Edmund. The Transformation of Britain 1830-1939. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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26 November 1761: John Rich, holder of the licence for Covent...

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26 November 1761

John Rich , holder of the licence for Covent Garden Theatre , died; his widow, Priscilla (who had been a performer before her marriage), took nominal control of the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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June 1861: A meeting of the Medical School Committee...

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June 1861

A meeting of the Medical School Committee of the Middlesex Hospital considered a protest from a group of male students against the dangerous innovation of female students.
Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.

1990: The Church of England possessed about 1,630...

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1990

The Church of England possessed about 1,630 officially redundant churches, or a tenth of the total in use; a quarter of these had been declared superfluous since 1958.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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By the end of 1938: The National Birth Control Association absorbed...

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By the end of 1938

The National Birth Control Association absorbed the Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics , as it had already absorbed the Workers' Birth Control Group , which had campaigned steadily throughout the 1920s.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Hall, Lesley. “Articulating abortion in interwar Britain”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 70, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, pp. 13-21.
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1816: The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms,...

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1816

The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms, was first delineated, by the FrenchmanC. P. L. De Gardanne .
Swenson, Kristine. “The Menopausal Vampire: Arabella Kenealy and the boundaries of true womanhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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