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December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...

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December 1831

Thomas Carlyle 's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
Hardman, Malcolm. Six Victorian Thinkers. Manchester University Press, 1990.
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Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. Clarendon, 1978.
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1764: A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling...

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1764

A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling themselves the Macaroni Club embarked on a campaign to promote Continental styles of cooking and dressing.
Nigro, Jeffrey A. “Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 50-62.
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1848: Alexandre Dumas the younger published La...

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1848

Alexandre Dumas the younger published La Dame aux Camélias, a novel which he successfully dramatised in 1852.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
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Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
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2 May 1742: Lady Euston, formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle,...

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2 May 1742

Lady Euston , formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle , died of her husband's ill-treatment within seven months of her wedding.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
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During the 1660s: Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty...

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During the 1660s

Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty girls at Barnstaple in Devon.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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1830-49: Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as...

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1830-49

Douglas Jerrold consolidated his career as a journalist and short-story writer while continuing to write for the theatre.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
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Frances Arabella Rowden

FAR , a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin
Frances Arabella Rowden Frontispiece of Frances Arabella Rowden's "A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities", 1820.

5 November 1757: Britain's ally Frederick II had the first...

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5 November 1757

Britain's ally Frederick II had the first of two unexpected victories, at Rossbach near Halle in Germany.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...

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1878

The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2.
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: The young Vita Sackville-West, travelling...

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Autumn 1909

The young Vita Sackville-West , travelling in Russia (now Ukraine), saw the serfs grovelling up to their master and being slashed at carelessly with a dog-whip for their pains.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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12 September 1882: Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Davitt,...

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12 September 1882

Charles Stewart Parnell , Michael Davitt , and John Dillon transformed the Irish Land League (now an illegal organization) into a new National League intended to further Irish nationalist political agendas.
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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15 October 1992: Margaret Busby published her ground-breaking...

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15 October 1992

Margaret Busby published her ground-breaking collection Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. She followed it in March 2019...

September 1910: Martin Secker founded his own publishing...

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September 1910

Martin Secker founded his own publishing house at 5 John Street, Adelphi, London, after leaving the publishing house of James Malcolm Eveleigh Nash .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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4 November 1734: The London Daily Post and General Advertiser...

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4 November 1734

The London Daily Post and General Advertiser was launched: one of four newspapers (only two dailies) which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
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, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
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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.

1740: The London Infirmary opened: it became the...

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1740

The London Infirmary opened: it became the London Hospital during the 1750s, and was later known as the hospital where Eva Lückes was Matron.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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19 November 1845: Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other...

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19 November 1845

Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven and Other Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Dwight, and David Jackson. The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. G. K. Hall, 1987.
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17 July 1791: People were shot while demonstrating in the...

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17 July 1791

People were shot while demonstrating in theChamp de Mars in Paris; this became known as the Massacre of the Champ de Mars.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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: The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League was founded...

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Summer 1936

The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League was founded at the heart of the US motion picture industry.
Hoberman, James. “Moguls”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 25-6.
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August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...

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August 2005

Google 's plans for massive digitization of printed books for reading online were temporarily halted by threats of litigation in the USA.
“Front Line: Google”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2005–28 Feb. 2006, pp. 142-3.
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December 1914: German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg,...

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December 1914

German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg , Clara Zetkin , and Karl Liebknecht founded the secret political organization called the Spartakusbund or Spartacus League.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Clara Zetkin

1772: Henry Dagge argued in Considerations on Criminal...

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1772

Henry Dagge argued in Considerations on Criminal Law, against the whole spirit of the times, that the law was morally wrong to make property, not defilement, the measure of damage in cases of abduction.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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: John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen...

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Autumn 1706

John Vanbrugh signed an agreement with Owen Swiny , appointing Swiny to manage the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Henrietta Euphemia Tindal

HET was a nineteenth-century poet of religious, historical, and domestic subjects; she also published a single novel.

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1896: Queen's College, Belfast, became the first...

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1896

Queen's College, Belfast, became the first university college in Ireland to admit women to equal privileges with men.
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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