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18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...

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18 June 1714

Addison , helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas Tickell , began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
556 (1714): 498

22 May 1998: In a referendum the people of Ireland and...

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22 May 1998

In a referendum the people of Ireland and Northern Ireland overwhelmingly endorsed the Good Friday Agreement: a major step towards a political settlement.
Good Friday Agreement, 10 April 1998. http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/docs/agreement.htm.

May 1919: The charity Save the Children was publicly...

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May 1919

The charity Save the Children was publicly launched at the Albert Hall in London, largely through the efforts of the sisters Dorothy Buxton and Eglantyne Jebb , to alleviate suffering caused in Europe by...

April 1860: Mazzini's supporters instigated revolt among...

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April 1860

Mazzini 's supporters instigated revolt among nationalists in Sicily.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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2 May 1519: Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, and...

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2 May 1519

Leonardo da Vinci , painter, sculptor, and scientist, died at Cloux (near Amboise, France).
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Roberts, Jane. “The Life of Leonardo”. Leonardo Da Vinci, edited by Hayward Gallery, London Advisory and Exhibition Committee, Yale University Press in association with the South Bank Centre, London, 1989, pp. 23-41.
23, 41

December 1851: Emperor Francis Joseph revoked the constitution...

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December 1851

Emperor Francis Joseph revoked the constitution of the Austrian Empire, rendering his rule absolute.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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8 March 1698

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
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.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Puritanism in Action. F. Cass, 1964.
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Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
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Elizabeth Ham

Though almost forgotten, EH is remarkable as an autobiographer and even more remarkable as a the author of a single novel. Writing and publishing in the earlier nineteenth century, she also produced a grammar textbook...
Elizabeth Ham Colour photograph of North Perrott in Somerset, the village of Elizabeth Ham's birth. This is the centre of the village, known as the Cross Tree, with the pub to the right of the picture and pub sign to the left.

1930: Mary Bagot Stack, a campaigner for women'...

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1930

Mary Bagot Stack , a campaigner for women' fitness, began the Women's League of Health and Beauty .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Ottoline Morrell

LOM is best known as an early twentieth-century literary hostess who appears frequently in the memoirs, biographies, and fictions written by her guests. She aspired to be a writer herself, and she produced journals, letters...
Lady Ottoline Morrell Sepia-toned photograph of Lady Ottoline Morrell, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark velvet dress with a layer of lace at the top and arms made of semi-sheer ribbed material. Her hair is jaw length, dark, and curly, and she is wearing pearl earrings and necklaces.

July 1789: The ship Lady Julia sailed from Portsmouth,...

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July 1789

The ship Lady Julia sailed from Portsmouth, taking 237 female convicts to Botany Bay in Australia, where they were intended to marry and bear children by the so far all-male convict settlers.
Wilson, Frances. “Searching for a wife on the ocean wave”. Guardian Weekly, 18–24 Jan. 2001, p. 17.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
under Parker
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.

6 February 1992: Barbara Mills, QC, became the first woman...

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6 February 1992

Barbara Mills , QC, became the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
509

12 April 1861-9 April 1865: The American Civil War raged between the...

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12 April 1861-9 April 1865

The American Civil War raged between the Confederacy of southern slave-owning states and the Union of the rest: from the first shots fired by Confederate artillery at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to the surrender...

1933: Lucy Webling, as Lucy Betty MacRaye, published...

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1933

Lucy Webling , as Lucy Betty MacRaye, published her first novel, One Way Street.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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.

9 August 1899: An Act of Parliament empowered School Boards...

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9 August 1899

An Act of Parliament empowered School Boards to provide special accommodation for defective and epilectic children.
Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
304, 344
Armytage, Walter Harry Green. Four Hundred Years of English Education. Second, Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
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About 1790: A ballad entitled The Female Captain was...

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About 1790

A ballad entitled The Female Captain was performed on stage by a Mrs Wrighten in military uniform, with patter urging men in the audience to fight for their country.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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23 June 1854: Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established...

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23 June 1854

Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established the publishing house of Ward and Lock at 158 Fleet Street, London, the former premises of David Nutt .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 321

1937: Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published...

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1937

Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published a biography entitiled Jane Austen , Study for a Portrait.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

3 October 1990: East and West Germany, politically divided...

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3 October 1990

East and West Germany, politically divided at the end of the Second World War, were reunited as a single nation; the GDR or East Germany ceased to exist at midnight on the 2nd.
Crystal, David. “Edit It Again, Sam”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 June 2000–2026, pp. 82-3.
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Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1889: Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting...

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1889

Queen's College, Belfast, began admitting women to medical classes in response to requests from the Belfast Ladies' Institute .
Breathnach, Eibhlín. “Charting New Waters: Women’s Experience in Higher Education, 1879-1908”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 55-78.
55, 59
Moody, Theodore William, and James Camlin Beckett. Queen’s, Belfast 1845-1949: The History of a University. Faber and Faber, 1959.
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December 1930: N. C. W. News, from the National Council...

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December 1930

N. C. W. News, from the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ended publication.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1868: Whitaker's Almanack first appeared....

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1868

Whitaker's Almanack first appeared.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.

By May 1922: Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police...

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By May 1922

Lady Astor prevented the Metropolitan Police Women from being disbanded at the recommendation of the Geddes Report.
Allen, Mary S. The Pioneer Policewoman. AMS Press, 1973.
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Luck, Joan. The British Policewoman: Her Story. R. Hale, 1979.
135-46

26 July 1825: Irish Evangelical Emma Parnell married Edward...

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26 July 1825

Irish Evangelical Emma Parnell married Edward Bligh (later Fifth Earl of Darnley ); she afterwards used her position to influence the religious views of those around her towards evangelicalism.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
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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.

1 March 1968: A new and more restrictive Commonwealth Immigration...

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1 March 1968

A new and more restrictive Commonwealth Immigration Act was passed, rushed through Parliament in three days as an emergency measure, and covertly designed to limit the influx of Asians into the UK from Kenya...