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1910: Albert Schweitzer' The Quest of the Historical...

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1910

Albert Schweitzer ' The Quest of the Historical Jesus, first published in 1906, appeared in English translation.
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1858: Blind Tom Bethune, later a popular black...

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1858

Blind Tom Bethune , later a popular black performer in British concert halls, gave his first public performance in Savannah, Georgia.
Sanjek, Russell. American Popular Music and its Business. Oxford University Press, 1988.
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1957: Colin MacInnes (son of novelist Angela Thirkell)...

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1957

Colin MacInnes (son of novelist Angela Thirkell ) published the first of his three London novels of the 1950s, City of Spades, a pioneering study of immigrant Black society in Britain.
Phillips, Caryl. “Kingdom of the blind”. The Guardian, 17 July 2004, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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1876: Elizabeth Blackwell found a publisher for...

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1876

Elizabeth Blackwell found a publisher for her recently completed manuscript, but only after altering the title to emphasize her authority as a doctor.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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John Clare

February 1848: Tuscany was granted a constitution by its...

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February 1848

Tuscany was granted a constitution by its Grand Duke.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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March 1795: According to Peter Cockburn, one eighth of...

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March 1795

According to Peter Cockburn , one eighth of the population of Edinburgh were too poor to buy food, and were being supported by charity.
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
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By September 1819: Facing debts of £90,000, Drury Lane Theatre...

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By September 1819

Facing debts of £90,000, Drury Lane Theatre was forced to close.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
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Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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23-26 June 1848: An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris...

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23-26 June 1848

An insurrection of 20,000 workers in Paris was defeated and the workers were massacred.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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Historian Eric Hobsbawm gives higher figures for those killed and punished, saying that 3,000 of those who fought...

9 April 1992: The general election returned the Conservative...

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9 April 1992

The general election returned the Conservative Party under its new leader, John Major , to power, to the surprise of pollsters who had predicted a Labour win.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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McKibbin, Ross. “The Luck of the Tories”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 8-9.
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Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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1992: It was first hinted by non-medical writers...

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1992

It was first hinted by non-medical writers that the source of AIDS might be contaminated oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s, mainly in the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.
Porter, Roy. “Tissue Wars”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 34-5.
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10 October 2006: Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for...

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10 October 2006

Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
“The Man Booker Prize: Prize Archive 2006”. The Man Booker Prize.
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, Jan. 2007, pp. 9-12.
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“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sept. 2008.

August 1916: Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting...

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August 1916

Millicent Garrett Fawcett arranged a meeting between suffragists and members of parliament which resulted in the election of MPs of all parties to the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform .
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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1847: The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University...

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1847

The Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University refused to admit Harriot Hunt .
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1880: After this date, the Vice Society withdrew...

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1880

After this date, the Vice Society withdrew from its criminal prosecution of purveyors of obscenity.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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Frances, Lady Norton

After the untimely death of her only daughter at the end of the seventeenth century, FLN edited a memorial volume of the daughter's pious meditations, mostly transcribed from her extensive reading as a glorified common-place...

September 1936: Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago...

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September 1936

Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago by Harriet Monroe , ceased publication under her editorship.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Kirsch, Adam. “Poetry Magazine’s Rebirth”. New York Sun, 20 Dec. 2005.

1836: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...

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1836

William Makepeace Thackeray published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

15 April 1802: Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary...

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15 April 1802

Dorothy Wordsworth recorded in her diary how she and her brother , out walking, came on a mass of wild daffodils in bloom at the edge of a lake.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere Journals. Editor Woof, Pamela, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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By early October 1930: London publisher Gerald Howe issued a composite...

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By early October 1930

London publisher Gerald Howe issued a composite biography entitled Six Women of the World, which had previously made up six volumes in a Representative Women series, 1927-9.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Mary Tighe

Among the oeuvre of MT , Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, her long narrative allegory, Psyche, gives her a high place among the women Romantics. Her known oeuvre has excitingly expanded in...
Mary Tighe Half-length stipple engraving of Mary Tighe by Edward Scriven, derived originally from a painting by George Romney, published 1812. Tighe is seated, with long, flowing, dark hair, a ribbon round her head, and a simple gown that crosses over at the bust.

15 February 1775: Lord Barrington, Secretary at War, asked...

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15 February 1775

Lord Barrington , Secretary at War, asked for British troops in Boston to be increased to about ten thousand men
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
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1700: In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture,...

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1700

In Campania Foelix, a treatise on agriculture, Timothy Nourse on balance praised the system of common lands in England (still mostly unenclosed).
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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1868: The Drury Lane Theatre offered the sensational...

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1868

The Drury Lane Theatre offered the sensational play The Great City, which featured an actual hansom cab and horse as part of its repertoire of special effects.
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
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