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1822: The Caledonian Canal across Scotland ope...

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1822

The Caledonian Canal across Scotland opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1620-1725: Thirty-five people were executed as witches...

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1620-1725

Thirty-five people were executed as witches in New England during this period of a century; nineteen of them died at Salem in 1692.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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January 1663: Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II...

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January 1663

Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II ordered the release of many Dissenters (Quakers and others) from prison.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
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March 1524: Erasmus's Abbatis et Eruditae was published...

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March 1524

Erasmus 's Abbatis et Eruditae was published in his Colloquies.
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
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Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Editors Schoeck, Richard J. and Beatrice Corrigan, University of Toronto Press, 1974–2026, 84 vols.
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1839: Electrotyping processes were invented independently...

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1839

Electrotyping processes were invented independently of one another by H. Von Jacobi of St. Petersburg, Thomas Spencer of Liverpool, and C. J. Jordan of London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1963: The novel Run River, first book by US writer...

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1963

The novel Run River, first book by US writer Joan Didion (already a journalist), launched a literary career of more than forty years in fiction and essays.
Thomson, David. “What does a snake know, or intend?”. London Review of Books, 18 Mar. 2004, pp. 3-10.
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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.

January 1881: India's Women, the magazine of the Church...

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January 1881

India's Women, the magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1912: The weekly magazine Woman ceased publica...

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1912

The weekly magazine Woman ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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May 1903: Joseph Chamberlain launched a campaign for...

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May 1903

Joseph Chamberlain launched a campaign for the introduction of protective tariffs to ensure imperial preference.
Green, E. H. H. “The Man Who Stood Behind the Man Who Won the War”. London Review of Books, 16 Sept. 1999, pp. 23-4.
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1804: The Horticultural Society (from 1861 the...

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1804

The Horticultural Society (from 1861 the Royal Horticultural Society ) was set up by a group of men including John Wedgwood and Sir Joseph Banks .
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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By 2 May 1857: Irish novelist Charles Lever published The...

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By 2 May 1857

Irish novelist Charles Lever published The Fortunes of Glencore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Summer 1919: John Maynard Keynes published The Economic...

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Summer 1919

John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
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.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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25 January 1884: The Ilbert Bill was enacted by the Indian...

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25 January 1884

The Ilbert Bill was enacted by the Indian Legislative Council. It theoretically empowered senior Indian magistrates to try British subjects in rural areas but had been greatly weakened as a result of claims that such...

1981: Antigua and Barbuda became a joint political...

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1981

Antigua and Barbuda became a joint political entity independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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Lady Margaret Sackville

Margaret Sackville was a prolific poet of the earlier twentieth century, whose work spanned a range of poetic genres from dramatic verse to epigrams and fantasy for children. She also wrote fairy-tales, plays, and introductory...
Lady Margaret Sackville Black and white photograph of Lady Margaret Sackville, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a light dress and a pearl necklace, with a scarf tied around her dark, curly, jaw-length hair.

Dorothea Gerard

DG was a novelist and romance-writer whose general conservatism co-existed with a piercing eye for relations across national and ethnic divides, for antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. She was the author, too, of an...

1888: A series of annual conferences of working...

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1888

A series of annual conferences of working women began—held in such centres as Aberdeen, Birmingham, and Liverpool—which resulted in the formation in 1895 of the National Union of Women Workers .
Carter, Angela, and Martin Leman. Martin Leman’s Comic and Curious Cats. 1st ed., Gollancz, 1979.
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March 1931: The government of Iraq granted by Principal...

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March 1931

The government of Iraq granted by Principal Agreement to the Iraq Petroleum Company or IPC (a consortium of English, French, and US oil companies constituted in 1928) 32,000 square miles of Iraqi territory.
Boal, Iain et al. “Blood for Oil?”. London Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2005, pp. 12-16.
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20 January 1672: Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript...

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20 January 1672

Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript book of poetry and prose which was acquired by Yale University in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
May, James E. “Scribleriana Transferred: Recent Listings and Acquisition”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
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, No. 1-2, 2007, pp. 193-9.
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15 November 1888: Emery Walker lectured on printing at the...

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15 November 1888

Emery Walker lectured on printing at the first Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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15 August 1649: English troops under Oliver Cromwell landed...

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15 August 1649

English troops under Oliver Cromwell landed at Ringsend outside Dublin with the aim of putting down the rebellion which had lasted in Ireland from October 1641.
Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
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Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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Frances E. W. Harper

An active lecturer and author in support of abolition, women's rights, and racial equality in the mid-nineteenth century, FEWH was, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr , the first African-American professional woman of letters.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr et al. “Introduction”. Three Classic African-American Novels, Vintage Books, 1990, p. vii - xvii.
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Frances E. W. Harper Black and white three-quarter-length photo of Frances E. W. Harper, frontispiece to an edition of her "Poems", Philadelphia, 1898. She is standing, her hair parted in the middle and pulled back; she looks straight forward, direct but dreamy. She is wearing a long skirt and sleeveless top with a shirt under it, with bows at the collar. Her hands rest on a chairback.

1 January 1904: The Motor Car Act (Great Britain) came into...

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1 January 1904

The Motor Car Act (Great Britain) came into effect: it required drivers to license and register their cars, and raised the speed limit to twenty miles an hour.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1884: American historian Henry Brooks Adams published...

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1884

American historian Henry Brooks Adams published the second of his two novels, Esther, under the pseudonym Frances Snow Compton. His first, Democracy, 1880, had been anonymous.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

22 July 1878: The Metropolitan Management and Building...

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22 July 1878

The Metropolitan Management and Building Acts Amendment Act was passed, authorizing the new Metropolitan Board of Works to preside over the construction of places of entertainment within London.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.