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Late June 1661: Sir William Davenant's theatre company, the...

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Late June 1661

Sir William Davenant 's theatre company, the Duke's , opened at a new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, after some months at the Salisbury Court theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1969.
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3 November 1854: University College, Ireland's first Catholic...

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3 November 1854

University College , Ireland's first Catholic university, was officially opened at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Coolahan, John. Irish Education: Its History and Structure. Institute of Public Administration, 1981.
119-20

1686: Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...

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1686

Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery at St Cyr near Paris, a school for impoverished noble girls. Closed with other convents at the Revolution, the institution re-opened in 1808 as a school for...

3 May 2007: In elections to the Scottish parliament,...

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3 May 2007

In elections to the Scottish parliament, a chaotic poll featuring large numbers of lost and disqualified votes revealed, several days later, that the Scottish Nationalist Party held a one-seat lead over Labour .
Carrell, Severin, and Michael White. “SNP claim victory, though power may yet elude them”. Guardian Unlimited, 5 May 2007.

July 1915: The Women's Social and Political Union organised,...

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July 1915

The Women's Social and Political Union organised, with government help, a Women's Right to Serve demonstration in support of their call for national conscription of women as well as men, and their support of the...

14 August 1842: A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists...

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14 August 1842

A mass demonstration of 10,000 Chartists took place on Lees Moor.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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22 June 1921: George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament...

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22 June 1921

George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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September-October 1969: The journal Socialist Woman was launched...

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September-October 1969

The journal Socialist Woman was launched by women's groups in Nottingham and London and by the International Marxist Group (IMG).
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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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.

By 1 December 1877: Bertha Thomas published the first of her...

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By 1 December 1877

Bertha Thomas published the first of her novels, Proud Maisie, anonymously.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2614 (1877): 696
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.

1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...

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1871

Owens College in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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Curtis, Stanley James. Education in Britain since 1900. Greenwood Press, 1970.
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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater

ECECB , born Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, used to be known as a collaborator with her sister Lady Jane in poems and plays written in the 1640s. Recent scholarship, while arguing that her part in these...

1888: James Viscount Bryce (who later, in 1907,...

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1888

James Viscount Bryce (who later, in 1907, became British Ambassador to the United States) published The American Commonwealth.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

December 1925: White Ribbon and Wings, a temperance magazine,...

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December 1925

White Ribbon and Wings, a temperance magazine, ended monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1865: The Society of Female Artists changed its...

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1865

The Society of Female Artists changed its mandate from providing juried exhibitions of members' work to a less professionally-oriented charitable focus.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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9 September 1803: The first number appeared of the Annual Review,...

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9 September 1803

The first number appeared of the Annual Review, a Dissenting periodical run by Lucy Aikin 's brother Arthur Aikin , which had been planned in 1802.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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November 1962: A Belgian woman was brought to trial for...

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November 1962

A Belgian woman was brought to trial for killing her week-old child who had been seriously deformed by Thalidomide.
Hindell, Keith, and Madeleine Simms. Abortion Law Reformed. Peter Owen, 1971.
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August 1915: Under the management of Mrs Leach, one hundred...

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August 1915

Under the management of Mrs Leach , one hundred female cooks began work at military convalescent camps in Britain.
McLaren, Barbara. Women of the War. Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
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1850: In Britain at mid-century, only 2 percent...

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1850

In Britain at mid-century, only 2 percent of the women convicted to prison were sent to standardized convict prisons; the rest were sent to unregulated local jails.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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1846: US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published...

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1846

US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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October 1826: William Bemrose began operating as a bookseller,...

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October 1826

William Bemrose began operating as a bookseller, printer, and bookbinder at Wirksworth in Derbyshire.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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July 1765: Elizabeth Parker, an independent widow of...

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July 1765

Elizabeth Parker , an independent widow of Alkincoats in Lancashire and an energetic diarist, eloped to Gretna Green with John Shackleton , a much younger merchant: this proved a very bad choice.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
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1859: Augusta Jane Evans published Beulah, a popular...

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1859

Augusta Jane Evans published Beulah, a popular domestic novel or bildungsroman about an orphaned young woman in the southern USA.
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.

17 April 1969: The Representation of the People Act (1969)...

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17 April 1969

The Representation of the People Act (1969) extended the vote in Britain to people aged eighteen and over.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1969): 89
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
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October-December 1922: Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle...

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October-December 1922

Sigmund Freud 's Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego were published in English translations by the International Psycho-Analytical Press .
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986.

1861-5: The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a...

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1861-5

The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a period of intense hardship among workers in the cotton industry, produced when the American Civil War disrupted trade.
Longmate, Norman. The Hungry Mills. Temple Smith, 1978.