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1928: Glasgow's Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish...

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1928

Glasgow's Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish Echo, began publication.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

15 August 1773: James Macpherson dated the preface to his...

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15 August 1773

James Macpherson dated the preface to his second and final edition of The Poems of Ossian, published this year, which brings together all his Ossian ic writing.
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.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
126-30

25 June 1886: The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved...

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25 June 1886

The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved rights to Scottish tenants in the wake of years of civil disobedience (the Crofters' War), particularly on the Isle of Skye.
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
under Highland Clearances

1840: The Great Western Railway first used disc-and-crossbar...

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1840

The Great Western Railway first used disc-and-crossbar signals to indicate approaching trains.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
92

1827: French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing...

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1827

French novelist Honoré de Balzac began publishing his series of ninety-one interconnected novels and stories, the Comédie humaine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

14 April 1816: Bussa's Rebellion began in Barbados....

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14 April 1816

Bussa 's Rebellion began in Barbados.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
183
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
275

1841: Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur....

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1841

Richard Owen coined the term dinosaur.
Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
119

4 March 1890: The Firth of Forth Bridge was opened in ...

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4 March 1890

The Firth of Forth Bridge was opened in Scotland.
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
92, 94
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
135
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
319

18 June 1894: The UK formally announced a protectorate...

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18 June 1894

The UK formally announced a protectorate over Uganda.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 589, 756
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
881, 883

1876: An Order in Council created a Lower Division...

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1876

An Order in Council created a Lower Division of clerks in the Civil Service who were transferable from one department to another.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
135-6

1763: General Jeffrey Amherst, British commander...

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1763

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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1561: Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena,...

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1561

Gabriele Falloppia (1523-1562) of Modena, Italy, gave scientific names to the vagina, placenta, and fallopian tubes, and was the first to describe the male contraceptive sheath, meant for prevention of venereal disease.
Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
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Hordern, Anthony. Legal Abortion: The English Experience. Pergamon, 1971.
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1880s: A dry gelatine system of photography replaced...

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1880s

A dry gelatine system of photography replaced the wet colloidon process.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....

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December 1854

William Makepeace Thackeray , as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
II: 296

1883: Karl Pearson, closest disciple198n111 of...

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1883

Karl Pearson , closest disciple
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004.
198n111
of Sir Francis Galton (who took over Galton's Eugenics Record Office in 1907), published a lecture, The Ethic of Freethought, which endorses the limitations imposed on women by childbearing.
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.

4 October 1957: The USSR launched the 185-pound Sputnik I,...

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4 October 1957

The USSR launched the 185-pound Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit earth; this caused panic in the USA about perceived Soviet research superiority.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
272
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
211

1634: Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that...

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1634

Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that name) attempted to form a corporation of midwives with himself as governor; he did not succeed.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
20-1
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
124
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
449

November 1871: The Senate of Edinburgh University decided...

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November 1871

The Senate of Edinburgh University decided to rescind all regulations allowing women entrance into the medical faculty.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
142

1866: Dr R. T. Trall published Sexual Physiology,...

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1866

Dr R. T. Trall published Sexual Physiology, a guide to birth control and sexual relations featuring explicit details and illustration.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
126

September 1890: Rukhmabai, famous for her court case resulting...

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September 1890

Rukhmabai , famous for her court case resulting from her marriage as a child and now in London studying to become a medical doctor, weighed in on the subject of Indian Child Marriages: An Appeal...

1563: Parliament, recognising that the voluntary...

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1563

Parliament, recognising that the voluntary system of poor relief had failed, empowered local justices to extract compulsory levies.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140-2

1910: Isabella Fyvie Mayo published her autobiography,...

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1910

Isabella Fyvie Mayo published her autobiography, Recollections of what I saw, what I lived through, and what I learned, during more than fifty years of social and literary experience.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

6 May 1955: The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications)...

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6 May 1955

The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1955, was passed; it dealt with the proliferation of horror comics depicting scenes of violence, crime, and cruelty.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
121
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
1955: 491

25 July 1792: Claire Lacombe made her first speech to the...

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25 July 1792

Claire Lacombe made her first speech to the French Legislative Assembly .
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
370, 389

1678: Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel...

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1678

Tudor, Prince of Wales. A Historical Novel (again a translation from French) was another of the earliest works in English to employ the term novel in its title.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
311
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.